Elim Church Dunedin

7.00pm – 9.30pm Friday 19th July
9.00am – 5.30 pm Saturday 20th July

67 Harrow Street, Central Dunedin, Dunedin 9016

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DR MELISSA CAIN TRAVIS

Author, Discovery Institute Fellow, Houston Christian University Lecturer

Melissa Cain Travis earned a Ph.D. in Humanities with a Philosophy concentration from Faulkner University, where her dissertation research focused on the natural philosophy and natural theology of Johannes Kepler. She earned a Master of Arts degree in Science and Religion from Biola University and a Bachelor of Science in general biology from Campbell University. She serves as a Fellow at Discovery Institute’s Center for Science and Culture, and has taught university courses since 2014.

Melissa is the author of Thinking God’s Thoughts: Johannes Kepler and the Miracle of Cosmic Comprehensibility (2022), Science and the Mind of the Maker: What the Conversation Between Faith and Science Reveals About God (2018), and contributed a chapter to The Story of the Cosmos (2019).

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Brendan Malone

Founder Director LifeNET NZ

Brendan Malone is the founder and Director of LifeNET. He has been equipping audiences at conferences, churches, schools and other events for more than 20 years. He is a passionate communicator who believes that the Christian tradition offers an enduring and dependable guide to discerning goodness, truth and beauty, and that its call to self-giving love is essential for authentic community and human flourishing. He is a married father of five – the vocation that he considers to be his most important work in life.

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Dr Jeff Tallon

Professor Emeritus of Physics

Professor Jeff Tallon is known internationally for his research and discoveries in high-Tc superconductors (HTS), which are currently being developed for applications across all sectors—health, transport, energy, mining and minerals processing, telecommunications and information technology, as well as research He was previously a Distinguished Scientist at Industrial Research Limited and concurrently Professor of Physics at Victoria University of Wellington. He is now concurrently an Emeritus Investigator at the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and nanotechnology.

Rebekah Valerius

Classical and Cultural Apologetics Presenter

Rebekah is a classical educator and author who earned a BS in Biochemistry from the University of Texas at Arlington and an MA in Apologetics from Houston Christian University. Her academic interests include the works of G.K. Chesterton, philosophical and literary apologetics, and the philosophy of science. You can find her writing at The Christian Research Journal, An Unexpected Journal, Perennial Gen, and Worldview Bulletin.

A favorite Bible passage for her is from the book of Job when God answers him out of the whirlwind: “Where were you when I laid the foundation of the earth … when the morning stars sang together and all the sons of God shouted for joy.” (Job 38: 4-7.)

She lives with her husband and two daughters in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. She teaches biology and chemistry at a university model, classical Christian school in the area.

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Elim Church Dunedin

7.00pm – 9.30pm Friday 19th July
9.00am – 5.30 pm Saturday 20th July

D U N E D I N P R E S E N T E R S

DR MELISSA CAIN TRAVIS

Brendan Malone

P L E N A R Y A N D W O R K S H O P
P R E S E N T E R S

Dr Jeff Tallon

Rebekah Valerius

S C H E D U L E O F
P R E S E N T A T I O N S

GK Chesterton on Suffering & The Book of Job.

Navigating Doubt

Kepler’s Liturgy, Einstein’s Miracle

Are We Just Our Brains? How the Human Mind Defies Materialism.

Almost a Miracle?

Mere Creation: Intelligent Design & the Origin of Life.

Astronomy and the Bible

The Jordan Peterson effect – why Christian culture and tradition is now one of the most powerful tools for Christian evangelism of the secular West

Six Powerful Secularising Forces that Have Shaped the Modern Mindset

Theology of the Body

E A R L Y B I R D P R I C I N G

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Elim Church Dunedin

7.00pm – 9.30pm Friday 19th July 9.00am – 5.30 pm Saturday 20th July

D U N E D I N P R E S E N T E R S

DR MELISSA CAIN TRAVIS

Brendan Malone

P L E N A R Y A N D W O R K S H O P P R E S E N T E R S

Dr Jeff Tallon

Rebekah Valerius

S C H E D U L E O F P R E S E N T A T I O N S

E A R L Y B I R D P R I C I N G

F I N A L / D O O R P R I C E

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7.00pm – 9.30pm Friday 19th July
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