The Guest Lecture Series is designed to support scholarly work and to expose the Pacifica community to such work. Speakers in various fields are invited for an evening consisting of a talk, question and answer and a short reception. In addition, key Pacifica faculty and guests are able to discuss ideas over a private dinner with the speaker.
The Guest Teaching Series is designed to bring a visiting scholar to Pacifica for one-two weeks to teach the senior class. The goal is to expose students to scholarly work for an extended period of time.
Upcoming Guest Lecture Series Speakers
Larry Greenfield
Mr. Greenfied, Vice President of the Claremont Institue, will be giving a talk on The American Way: Rediscovering and Applying The First Principles.
Mr. Greenfield is a native Californian, and earned his BA in political science from the
A popular speaker, Larry focuses on national security issues, including the West's response to the rise of radical Islam, and such domestic issues as energy, economy, education, and mass culture.
Past Guest Teacher Series Speakers
Past Guest Lecture Series Speakers
Dr. Michael Ward
Dr. Ward, author of “Planet Narnia”, is an Anglican clergyman and a writer and speaker. From 1987-1990 he read English at Regent’s Park College in the University of Oxford. From 1996-1999 Dr. Ward lived at The Kilns, Lewis’s Oxford home, as resident warden and curator. From 1999-2001 he read Theology at Peterhouse, University of Cambridge and from 1999-2004 he trained for ministry in the Anglican Church at Ridley Hall, Cambridge Theological Federation. In 2005 Dr. Ward completed his PhD in Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. From 2004 to 2008 he was Chaplain of Peterhouse at the University of Cambridge.
For much of 2008 he will be lecturing internationally on the subject of Planet Narnia. Stops include Wheaton, Villanova, Hillsdale, Princeton, and Yale.
Dr. Perry A. Jansen, MD
A southern California native, Dr. Perry Jansen was practicing family medicine in Bremerton, Washington when he learned of the need for doctors in the small, African country of Malawi. After a short-term trip in 1999, Dr. Jansen and his wife, Brenda, felt God’s calling to move his family to Malawi to serve as the first and only physician in a small clinic on the grounds of a Bible College. Having received his medical degree from Penn State, his family practice residency training from Santa Monica/UCLA and Tropical Medicine training from Johns Hopkins, Dr. Jansen was prepared for the medical challenges he would face in this poverty stricken country where there is only one physician for every 54,000 people.
With the help of the Malawian government, the southern California-based charity Partners in Malawi, and hundreds of individuals and churches in the U.S., Dr. Jansen founded an HIV/AIDS clinic. The three-year-old Partners in Hope Medical Center now cares for over 2,000 HIV/AIDS patients per month and is one of the fastest-growing centers in the region. PIH also has dynamic programs for supportive counseling, HIV prevention for youth and nutritional and agriculture strengthening.
Dr. Allan Callahan
Dr. Callahan is Professor of New Testament at the Seminario Teologica Batista do Nordeste in Bahia, Brazil, and has taught and lectured throughout the United States, Europe and Latin America. Professor Callahan holds a BA in Religion from Princeton University and MA and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University in the Study of Religion specializing in New Testament and the history and literature of early Christianity. He has taught biblical studies and theology at Boston College, Andover-Newton Theological School, Holy Cross College, Macalester College, Harvard Divinity School and the University of Massachusetts. Professor Callahan presently divides his time between Brazil and Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife, Dr. Jeanette Prescott Callahan, a pediatrician, and their four adult children. Professor Callahan is an ordained Baptist minister, and is affiliated with the Progressive National Baptist Convention, USA.
Candace Kelsey
Mrs. Kelsey is a former high school and middle school English teacher who is passionate about education and teenagers. Through her experiences working with teenagers Mrs. Kelsey became interested in how technology impacted relationships. She authored, Generation MySpace, which is a look at online social networks and there effect on teenage culture. Mrs. Kelsey is also a founding teacher at Pacifica Christian High School.