Roundtable: What Is the Good Life?
Join us on Wednesdays during this year’s Summer Programs to enjoy conversations with members of our summer faculty. The professors and topics are different each week, so there’s always something new to explore.
Topic
This week, Teaching Fellow Elizabeth Sung and writer Karen Swallow Prior will have a roundtable discussion on “What is the Good Life?” Join us at noon in Room 100, and feel free to bring your lunch.
Format
Wednesday Lunchtime Conversations are offered onsite at Regent College. These events are open to the public, and no registration is required.
While these lunchtime events will not be available online, many of the faculty participants are also delivering Evening Public Lectures that will be livestreamed and available on Regent's YouTube channel. Find the full list at rgnt.net/epl.
Location: Regent College (Room 100), 5800 University Boulevard, Vancouver, BC
Parking: Regent College no longer has its own parking lot. Paid parking options are available nearby with metered parking on Western Parkway, among other locations, and covered pay parking at the Thunderbird Parkade. See parking.ubc.ca for more info.
Related Courses
Lisa Sung is teaching The Good Life & Christ: A Theological Reframing of the Gospel and Karen Swallow Prior is teaching The Mysterious Manner of Flannery O’Connor (both June 8–12) as part of Regent’s 2026 Summer Programs.
Karen Swallow Prior
Karlson Scholar (Bethel Seminary)
Karen Swallow Prior is a writer and speaker whose work has appeared in publications ranging from Christianity Today to The New York Times. Her most recent book is You Are Called: Finding Your Vocation in the True, Good, and Beautiful (Brazos 2025).
Elizabeth Sung
Teaching Fellow
Elizabeth Sung (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is a systematic theologian and spiritual director. Her academic specialties include theological anthropology (personhood and identity; race, ethnicity, and culture) and soteriology (sanctification, spiritual formation, and character development).