An Invitation for Torrey Honors Members
Interested in Public Service
Bring Your Questions
We will reflect on fundamental questions of statecraft, leadership, and civic formation.
Explore Your Vocation
We will identify our public service with our Christian vocation.
Make Virtuous Friends
We will enjoy deep fellowship together.
EVENT DETAILS
Seminar on Alcibiades
Join The Key Fellowship at Biola University on Saturday, October 26th. We will gather from 9:00-3:00PM.
Applications are welcome from sophomores, juniors, and seniors (with preference given to upperclassmen). Applicants should demonstrate an interest in public service and an aptitude for discussing fundamental questions of social and political thought.
The cohort will be limited to 10-12 participants, and a small honorarium will be provided.
The application is now closed for this Key Fellows colloquium.
Meet Your Hosts
Matthew Lee Anderson, D.Phil., is an Assistant Professor in the Honors Program at Baylor University and is the Associate Director of Baylor in Washington. He is an Associate Fellow at the McDonald Centre for Theology, Ethics, and Public Life at Oxford University. He completed a D.Phil. and M.Phil. at Oxford in Christian Ethics and is a Perpetual Member of Biola University’s Torrey Honors College. Dr. Anderson’s scholarly interests include pro- and anti-natalism, political theology, and bioethics. He is the author of several books and has written for First Things, the Washington Post, Mere Orthodoxy, and elsewhere. He also founded and organized 100 Days of Dante, the world’s largest reading group of the Divine Comedy.
Jonathan Mueller is Vice President for Faculty Affairs and serves as an Instructor of Great Texts and Philosophy at Saint Constantine College. He is a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham working in Platonic Philosophy, and holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from Houston Christian University. He graduated summa cum laude from Biola University, where he is also a perpetual member of the Torrey Honors College.
Mr. Mueller’s scholarly interests include ancient Greek philosophy and literature, Platonic philosophy involving ethics and aesthetics, and the reception of Greek philosophy in Early Christian thought. He has helped create several academic programs, including the Academy at Houston Christian University, and a founding member of academic leadership at the Saint Constantine School and College in Houston, TX.
The Rev. Dr Micah Snell is an Associate Professor of English and the Honors College at Houston Christian University. He is the Program Coordinator for the HCU Master of Liberal Arts and an ordained Anglican. He holds a PhD in theology and the arts from the University of St Andrews, an M.Div from Nashotah House Theological Seminary, and a BA from Biola University where he is also a Perpetual Member of the Torrey Honors College.