Center for Christian Studies - FIRST THINGS Lecture

Matthew B. Crawford will be the speaker at this year’s Center for Christian Studies – First Things Lecture in Austin.  Crawford earned a degree in physics, then a PhD in political philosophy from the University of Chicago. He is a Senior Fellow at the University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture. A New York Times best-selling author, his books have been translated into 13 languages. His shorter writings have appeared in First Things, Unherd, Compact, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, American Affairs, The New Atlantis, Le Monde, Le Figaro, The Sunday Times of London, and many other publications. He writes the Substack Archedelia: Toward a political philosophy of the present.

Crawford will be speaking on the question, “Can Christianity Be Noble?”  He writes, “Young men, if their souls are intact, by nature have a longing for greatness. They want some hard path to follow, some high task demanded of them. But the surrounding society…