Background: about 60 people attended; all are Christians in education (K-12 and college teachers, administrators, etc.). This was sponsored by ACSI (Association of Christian Schools International - a K-12 organization based in Colorado), IAPCHE (International Association for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education - Nick's organization for college teachers based in Iowa) and CIPCHEA (something something for the Promotion of Christian Higher Education in Africa - based in Kenya).
I was scheduled to speak on Tuesday on the topic of promoting excellent teaching beyond the "banking" model (lecturing).
On Monday morning, Nick mentioned that a couple of speakers had not shown up and would I be willing to step in with a talk about a Christian perspective in psychological research. I agreed (hesitantly), but he later said it wouldn't be needed. And then, at 2:00, he asked if I could do it at 2:30. So, while he gave his own lecture, I prepped mine. Not the kind of thing I love to do. It went fairly well, and I realized that a talk that could get me skewered on campus (not philosophically deep enough) was plenty for these folks to chew on. They're hungry for ways to think about worldview, and even my (relatively superficial) analysis of psychological research and the tensions it poses for Christians was very well received. Hooray!
