Friends Talks Archive
Friends University hosts a lecture series featuring local and national experts twice a year. With a diverse array of speakers, each event is sure to teach our community something new and substantial about the way we see the world. Friends Talks events will be free and open to the public. Below is an archive of past Friends Talks.
Tuesday, April 18, 2023
Listen to Fr. Ron Rolheiser
Fr. Ron Rolheiser, OMI, is a Roman Catholic priest and member of the Missionary Oblates of Mary Immaculate. He is a theologian, professor, award-winning author, and serves as president of the Oblate School of Theology. He holds Bachelor’s degrees from the University of Ottawa and Newman Theological College Edmonton and Master’s degrees from the University of San Francisco and University of Louvain, Belgium along with a PhD/STD from the University of Louvain. Apart from his academic knowledge in systematic theology and philosophy, he has become a popular speaker in contemporary spirituality and religion and the secular world. He writes a weekly column that is carried in over 70 newspapers around the world.
Theologian, professor and award-winning author
Thursday, April 7, 2022
Three Chances to Hear Michael Wise
Michael O. Wise is Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Languages at the University of Northwestern–St. Paul, where he has taught for twenty-four years. He earned his B.A. at the University of Minnesota, a Master of Divinity from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (Chicago), a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Judaica at the University of Chicago, and a second Ph.D. in Classics (Greek and Latin languages and literatures) at the University of Minnesota. Rev. Dr. Wise has produced eight books and over 100 scholarly articles and book reviews. His most recent book is Language and Literacy in Roman Judea (Yale, 2015). He is an internationally recognized expert on the world of Jesus, most particularly on the Dead Sea Scrolls and the Bar Kokhba texts. He enjoys bringing the ancient world to “life” as he lectures on the scrolls in many different venues. Ordained as a minister in the Evangelical Free Church, Rev. Dr. Wise has taught for nearly twenty years at Wooddale Church in Eden Prairie, where he and his wife Cathy regularly teach adult classes and have for several years led the Midweek Bible Study.
