Next year's conference is scheduled for August 19-20, 2024.
Registration will go live early next year; to be added to the conference distribution list, please email henkel@ascensionmadison.com.
The best hotel arrangements are at the Hampton Inn Skyline.
Another convenient hotel option is the Super 8 Whites Creek.
Those scheduled to present include:
Registration will go live early next year; to be added to the conference distribution list, please email henkel@ascensionmadison.com.
The best hotel arrangements are at the Hampton Inn Skyline.
Another convenient hotel option is the Super 8 Whites Creek.
Those scheduled to present include:
- Mary Eberstadt, Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center and Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute
- Paul Kengor, Editor of The American Spectator and Professor of Political Science at Grove City College
- Gene Veith, Professor of Literature Emeritus at Patrick Henry College
- Donna Harrison, Scholar at the Charlotte Lozier Institute and former Chief Executive Officer of the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians
- Hans Fiene, Pastor at Prince of Peace Lutheran Church and creator of the "Lutheran Satire" channel
- Sean Daenzer, Worship Director for the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
- Christian Preus, Pastor at Mount Hope Lutheran Church
- Noah Hahn, Instructor of Philosophy at Fordham University
We offer scholarships to high school and college students--email henkel@ascensionmadison.com for details.
Tentative schedule:
Monday, August 19
11:00 - Registration
12:00 - Matins
12:45 - Break (light snacks provided)
1:00 - Presentations and Q&As with intermittent breaks
6:30 - Evening meal at Rock'n Dough Pizza and Brewery (provided)
Tuesday, August 20
8:45 - Matins
9:30 - Break
9:45 - Presentation and Q&A
11:00 - Lunch (provided)
12:00 - Presentations and Q&As with intermittent breaks
Monday, August 19
11:00 - Registration
12:00 - Matins
12:45 - Break (light snacks provided)
1:00 - Presentations and Q&As with intermittent breaks
6:30 - Evening meal at Rock'n Dough Pizza and Brewery (provided)
Tuesday, August 20
8:45 - Matins
9:30 - Break
9:45 - Presentation and Q&A
11:00 - Lunch (provided)
12:00 - Presentations and Q&As with intermittent breaks
About the presenters
Mary Eberstadt
Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington DC and is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She is an American writer whose contributions to the intellectual landscape traverse genres. An essayist, novelist, and frequent public speaker, she is author of several books of non-fiction, including How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution; and Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. Her social commentary draws from fields including anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, popular culture, sociology, and theology. Central to her diverse interests are questions concerning the philosophy and culture of Western civilization and the fate and aspirations of post-modern man.
Mrs. Eberstadt’s books and essays have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Arabic, Dutch, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Hungarian, and Turkish; and her novel The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism, premiered as a stage-play at the Catholic University of America in 2016.
Paul Kengor
Paul Kengor is Editor of The American Spectator. Dr. Kengor is also a professor of political science at Grove City College, a senior academic fellow at the Center for Vision & Values, and the author of over a dozen books, including A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century; The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism; and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
Gene Veith
Gene Edward Veith, Jr., is a writer and a retired literature professor. He is Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College, where he also served as Professor of Literature and Interim President. He is currently the Director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary at Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He previously served as Culture Editor of WORLD MAGAZINE and Professor of English and Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Concordia University Wisconsin.
He is the author of over 25 books on the topics of Christianity & culture, literature, the arts, classical education, vocation, and theology.
Dr. Veith was born in Oklahoma in 1951. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1973 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1979. He has honorary doctorates from Concordia Theological Seminary (2005), Concordia University California (2014), and Patrick Henry College (2016). He was named Confessional Lutheran Layman of the Year in 2002 and received the Magister Magnus Award from the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education in 2018.
He has also taught at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and was a Visiting Professor at Wheaton College, Gordon College, and Regent College (Vancouver). He was also a Visiting Lecturer at the Estonian Institute of Humanities in Tallinn, Estonia. He and his wife Jackquelyn currently live in Oklahoma and have three grown children and twelve grandchildren.
Donna Harrison
Donna Harrison, M.D.is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and former Executive Director of the American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists (www.aaplog.org). AAPLOG is the largest pro-life physician organization in the world, and was recognized as a special interest group within the American College (Congress) of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) for over 40 years from 1973 to 2013, until ACOG discontinued the use of the term “special interest group” within the Congress.
She has lectured extensively as a continuing medical education speaker in the United States and internationally. She is an adjunct professor at Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL, recently teaching a postgraduate continuing medical education seminar on current reproductive technologies ethical implications. She has authored peer-reviewed papers on the RU-486 approval process, adverse events associated with medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol, and mechanisms of action of ulipristal.
She has also spoken before the FDA Reproductive Health Advisory Committees on mifepristone and ulipristal and has addressed numerous congressional committees, as well as presenting at the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women accessory sessions on topics related to medical abortion in developing nations, and maternal mortality and abortion.
Hans Fiene
Bio forthcoming
Sean Daenzer
Bio forthcoming
Christian Preus
Bio forthcoming
Noah Hahn
Bio forthcoming
Mary Eberstadt
Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair in Christian Culture at the Catholic Information Center in Washington DC and is Senior Research Fellow at the Faith & Reason Institute. She is an American writer whose contributions to the intellectual landscape traverse genres. An essayist, novelist, and frequent public speaker, she is author of several books of non-fiction, including How the West Really Lost God: A New Theory of Secularization; Adam and Eve after the Pill: Paradoxes of the Sexual Revolution; and Primal Screams: How the Sexual Revolution Created Identity Politics. Her social commentary draws from fields including anthropology, intellectual history, philosophy, popular culture, sociology, and theology. Central to her diverse interests are questions concerning the philosophy and culture of Western civilization and the fate and aspirations of post-modern man.
Mrs. Eberstadt’s books and essays have been translated into Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, Arabic, Dutch, Portuguese, Lithuanian, Hungarian, and Turkish; and her novel The Loser Letters: A Comic Tale of Life, Death, and Atheism, premiered as a stage-play at the Catholic University of America in 2016.
Paul Kengor
Paul Kengor is Editor of The American Spectator. Dr. Kengor is also a professor of political science at Grove City College, a senior academic fellow at the Center for Vision & Values, and the author of over a dozen books, including A Pope and a President: John Paul II, Ronald Reagan, and the Extraordinary Untold Story of the 20th Century; The Politically Incorrect Guide to Communism; and Dupes: How America’s Adversaries Have Manipulated Progressives for a Century.
Gene Veith
Gene Edward Veith, Jr., is a writer and a retired literature professor. He is Provost Emeritus at Patrick Henry College, where he also served as Professor of Literature and Interim President. He is currently the Director of the Cranach Institute at Concordia Theological Seminary at Ft. Wayne, Indiana. He previously served as Culture Editor of WORLD MAGAZINE and Professor of English and Dean of the School of Arts & Sciences at Concordia University Wisconsin.
He is the author of over 25 books on the topics of Christianity & culture, literature, the arts, classical education, vocation, and theology.
Dr. Veith was born in Oklahoma in 1951. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma in 1973 and received a Ph.D. in English from the University of Kansas in 1979. He has honorary doctorates from Concordia Theological Seminary (2005), Concordia University California (2014), and Patrick Henry College (2016). He was named Confessional Lutheran Layman of the Year in 2002 and received the Magister Magnus Award from the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education in 2018.
He has also taught at Northeastern Oklahoma A&M College and was a Visiting Professor at Wheaton College, Gordon College, and Regent College (Vancouver). He was also a Visiting Lecturer at the Estonian Institute of Humanities in Tallinn, Estonia. He and his wife Jackquelyn currently live in Oklahoma and have three grown children and twelve grandchildren.
Donna Harrison
Donna Harrison, M.D.is a board-certified obstetrician and gynecologist and former Executive Director of the American Association of Prolife Obstetricians and Gynecologists (www.aaplog.org). AAPLOG is the largest pro-life physician organization in the world, and was recognized as a special interest group within the American College (Congress) of Obstetrics and Gynecology (ACOG) for over 40 years from 1973 to 2013, until ACOG discontinued the use of the term “special interest group” within the Congress.
She has lectured extensively as a continuing medical education speaker in the United States and internationally. She is an adjunct professor at Trinity International University in Deerfield, IL, recently teaching a postgraduate continuing medical education seminar on current reproductive technologies ethical implications. She has authored peer-reviewed papers on the RU-486 approval process, adverse events associated with medical abortion with mifepristone and misoprostol, and mechanisms of action of ulipristal.
She has also spoken before the FDA Reproductive Health Advisory Committees on mifepristone and ulipristal and has addressed numerous congressional committees, as well as presenting at the United Nations Committee on the Status of Women accessory sessions on topics related to medical abortion in developing nations, and maternal mortality and abortion.
Hans Fiene
Bio forthcoming
Sean Daenzer
Bio forthcoming
Christian Preus
Bio forthcoming
Noah Hahn
Bio forthcoming