Honoring Willard Book Awardees

Michael Stewart Robb, who won the Martin Institute and Dallas Willard Research Center’s Book Award in 2023, will receive the honor and speak in the chapel at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Sept. 6, in Murchison Gym. He will discuss key themes from his award-winning book in a Provost’s Lecture, “Dallas Willard and Rational Spirituality: Claiming the Depth and Power of Protestant Spiritual Life,” at 3:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, at Hieronymus Lounge in Kerrwood Hall. Robb will sell and sign copies of his book, The Kingdom Among Us: The Gospel According to Dallas Willard, following the lecture. Both events are free and open to the public.

A Christian educator, theologian and founding director of Sanctus: a European Institute for Theology and Spiritual Formation, Robb had to cancel his talk in early February because a large storm triggered evacuation alerts and school closures in Santa Barbara County.

Brandon Rickabaugh and J.P. Moreland have won the 2024 Willard book award for The Substance of Consciousness: A Comprehensive Defense of Contemporary Substance Dualism. They are expected to visit campus for the award and will speak about the book on Jan. 15, 2025.