Wade Center Events

The Wade Center plans to record all events and upload them to our YouTube channel unless otherwise noted and barring any technical difficulties.

• SEPTEMBER 26, 2025 @ 1:30PM, BAKKE AUDITORIUM
  “New-Heaven-and-Earthlings: On the Warrant of Speculative Literature” with Richard Hughes Gibson, a Homecoming Weekend Special Event
  The lecture will offer a meditation on the role of the imagination in fitting us for the New Heaven and New Earth with extensive help from George MacDonald, among other Wade authors.
  Watch the Gibson Lecture Livestream
• OCTOBER 9, 2025 @ 7PM, ARMERDING CONCERT HALL
  "Waiting on the Slow Work of God: How the Habit of Hope Transforms Us" with Tish Harrison Warren, sponsored by the Stephen & Marjorie Mead Endowment for Spiritual Formation and the Stanley W. and Jeannette A. Bakke Endowment for Intellectual & Imaginative Engagement
  Join us for a talk by Tish Harrison Warren on Hope and the Wade Center authors.
  LIVESTREAM LINK FORTHCOMING
• OCTOBER 28, 2025 @ 7:30PM, ARMERDING CONCERT HALL AND LOBBY
  “A Timbered Choir”: The Witness of Creation - Performance and Reception, sponsored by the Muriel Fuller Endowment for the Imagination & the Arts and the Stanley W. and Jeannette A. Bakke Endowment for Intellectual & Imaginative Engagement
  Enjoy an evening of music, poetry, and art celebrating the wonders and witness of creation, featuring the world premiere of “A Timbered Choir.” Composed by Joshua Rodriguez with words by Wendell Berry; performed by the Wheaton College Concert Choir under the direction of John William Trotter; with reflections by Kristen Page, Tiffany Kriner, and Joel Sheesley
  LIVESTREAM LINK FORTHCOMING
• DECEMBER 11, 2025 @ 7PM, BAKKE AUDITORIUM
  Christmas at the Wade
  Join us for a talk by Emily Hunter McGowin, author of Christmas: Season of Light and Life (IVP). We’ll also celebrate the release of Richard Hughes Gibson’s The Way of Dante: Going Through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven with C.S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and Charles Williams (IVP Academic). Richard Gibson and Jon Boyd (IVP Associate Publisher and Academic Editorial Director) will join Jim Beitler for a conversation about the book. Festive treats and book signings to follow.
  LIVESTREAM LINK FORTHCOMING
• JANUARY 29, 2026 @ 7PM, BAKKE AUDITORIUM
  First lecture in the 2026 Hansen Lecture Series with Jim Beitler
• FEBRUARY 26, 2026 @ 7PM, BAKKE AUDITORIUM
  Second lecture in the 2026 Hansen Lecture Series with Jim Beitler
• MARCH 19, 2026 @ 7PM, BAKKE AUDITORIUM
  Third lecture in the 2026 Hansen Lecture Series with Jim Beitler