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My Upcoming Speaking Dates

Hello friends. Below you will see my current (and still evolving) speaking schedule for the winter and spring. It is a mix of academic lectures, local church sermons, live podcast events, and weekend conferences at churches. But I’ve thrown a few wild cards in there! I am speaking at the Chipping Campden Literature Festival — an increasingly significant literary conference in the Cotswolds part of England, and also in May, I will have the distinct privilege of being the Baccalaureate speaker and recipient of an honorary doctorate at Franklin College in Indiana.

Most often these days, people ask me to speak about my most recent book, The Moral Teachings of Jesus. But sometimes they are looking for an overview of my work over the last decade or so. Increasingly, that is what these weekend church conferences are about. That is truly exciting to me — these are churches, often but not only post-evangelical, that want to enter into conversation about pretty much everything I have been writing about since Changing Our Mind (2014). That includes post-evangelicalism, authoritarianism and democracy, general Christian ethics, and, overall, what faithfulness to Jesus looks like in the current context.

I should also mention that my long-promised treatment of the Book of Job is now done. A great title has been selected: Job in Exile: A Guide for Spiritual Refugees. It will be out with Orbis in the fall of 2026, and I am already giving lectures and sermons on the themes of the book. That will be my topic, for example, as Jones Lecturer at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary in late January. I can’t wait to share what I have learned with as many audiences as are interested!

If you would like to invite me to an event this winter/spring, I have only these remaining available weekend dates: January 3-4, and March 7-8. The fall is looking pretty “inviting,” though! I will be eager to hear from church or academic settings, and I have been ramping up podcast appearances recently as well.

Whatever is going on in public life, the work of Christian ethics, whether through sermon or academic lecture, is always relevant. When the ground seems especially shaky under our feet, we are especially in need of solid ground.

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house, but it did not fall, because it had been founded on rock.”

—Matthew 7:24–25

DPG

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Upcoming 2026 Speaking

December 10, 2025: Making Things Right live event 7:30 pm EST

January 13: Created in the Image of God live podcast 9:00 pm EST

January 25: Restore Church Austin

January 27-28: MidWinter Lectures, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary

February 12: Christ Church Oxford PhD seminar on Ethics

March 1: Vinings Lake Church, Mableton, GA

March 21-22: North Hills Baptist Church, Pittsburgh

April 11-12: West Chester Baptist Church, PA

April 22: Caffeinated Church Conference, All Souls Episcopal Church, Atlanta

April 25-26: Weatherly Heights Baptist Church, Huntsville, AL

April 29-30: Post-Evangelical Collective, Boston

May 8: Chipping Campden Literature Festival, England

May 22: Baccalaureate Speaker, Honorary Doctorate, Franklin College, Indiana

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David P. Gushee is the Distinguished University Professor of Christian Ethics at Mercer University, Chair of Christian Social Ethics at Vrije Universiteit (Free University), and Senior Research Fellow at its partner school, International Baptist Theological Study Centre. He is the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of 30 books, including the bestsellers Kingdom Ethics and Changing Our Mind. His other most notable works are Defending Democracy from Its Christian Enemies, After Evangelicalism, and most recently, The Moral Teachings of Jesus. Learn more at davidpgushee.com.