Stimulating dialogue and problem-solving for our world today.

During our conferences, thoughtful speakers and concerned members of the Christian community come together to address some of the pertinent issues and challenges facing Christians in diverse vocations.

Keynote speakers have included outstanding scholars and teachers such as N.T. Wright, Eugene Peterson, Marva Dawn, David Hansen, Larry Crabb, Alec Hill, Lamin Sanneh, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Alister McGrath.

Upcoming Conferences

The Next Great Challenge: Thinking Together about Aging

Date: May 18–19, 2012
Featured speakers: Margaret Somerville, Maxine Hancock, J.I. Packer, Jim Houston

More people are living longer today than in any other time in history. Seniors are the fastest-growing age group in North America. Yet neither church nor culture seems adequately prepared to face the needs, the costs, and the moral consequences of this “grey tsunami.” Join one of Canada’s leading public intellectuals and three of Regent’s own gifted and beloved scholars as they think about the implications and the opportunities that this next great challenge offers us.

Past conferences

Pastors' Conference 2012
overflow—spiritual rhythms and practices that draw from christ's fullness

Date: May 1–4, 2012
Featured speakers: Bruce Hindmarsh, Darrell Johnson, and Susan Phillips. Hosted by Ross Hastings

For so many pastors in our media-saturated and frenetic culture, “running on empty” seems like the inescapable norm. The demands to produce fresh sermons week after week, to equip and to lead in visionary ways, to counsel wisely, and endless other responsibilities reduce us to a spotty spirituality and to sporadic fullness at best. This conference will help pastors gain new or renewed awareness of rhythms and practices that can maintain spiritual, emotional, and bodily health, especially when practised in the way of the gospel and grace, in union with Christ, and by contemplation of Christ.

Heaven on Earth? The Future of Spiritual Interpretation

Date: September 16–17, 2011
Featured speakers: Brian E. Daley, SJ and Kevin V. Vanhoozer

This conference, hosted by Regent College in cooperation with the Center for Catholic-Evangelical Dialogue (CCED), brought together numerous renowned Catholic and evangelical scholars to ask the question: what are the implications if we read the historical, earthly text in the light of spiritual or heavenly realities?

Leading with the Leader: Community, Character and Charisms (Pastors' Conference 2011)

Date: May 3-6, 2001
Speaker(s): David Taylor, Paul Williams, Rod Wilson and Ross Hastings

This conference presented the liberating understanding of leadership as participation in the life of the missional triune God, living out our union with Christ and his work in the world. While challenging the pastor to live contemplatively towards God and in participation with his life and love, this understanding also invites the pastor into community with other leaders, and the body of Christ of which he or she is a part.

Many of our conferences are available for audio download. Browse the full catalogue on the Regent audio website.