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Designed to bring together Christian Bible teachers who desire to engage students deeply in learning, help them discover who they are as image-bearers of God, and guide them to find their place in God’s story.
Bible Symposium
October 14, 2026 | Grandville, MI
Join us at the Calvin Christian High School campus of CSI-accredited member Grandville Calvin Christian School in Grandville, Michigan for a transformative day exploring the integration of faith and science in Christian education.
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About the Bible Symposium
Join us on November 7, 2025, at South Christian High School in Byron Center, Michigan for a transformative day exploring the integration of faith and science in Christian education.
As a community of Bible teachers, the learners will leave with a renewed conviction that teaching students to read the Bible well is among the most formative things they can do—an invitation into a whole way of seeing reality.
Planning to attend the Great Lakes Unity Conference on October 15–16, 2026? The Bible Symposium is a pre-conference event to the Great Lakes Unity Conference. We encourage you to register and invite others from your school!
Learning Targets
The learners will articulate why the Bible requires a different kind of attention than other texts.
The learners will experience the Bible as a text that expects something from its readers—and practice the skills of slowing down, noticing patterns, and reading within the whole.
The learners will design a Bible reading skills lesson appropriate to their students’ age and subject and receive feedback through a tuning protocol that strengthens it for classroom use.
Schedule
8:30: Coffee & Refreshments
9:00: Welcome and Opening Circle – Jim Peterson, CSI
9:30: Why Do We Need to Develop Bible Reading Skills?
10:30: Break
10:45: Guided Practice in Bible Reading Skills 1 (OT/NT Narrative)
11:30: Guided Practice in Bible Reading Skills 2 (NT Narrative/NT Letters)
12:15: Lunch provided by CSI
1:00: Design Time
1:45: Tuning Protocol
2:30–3: Closing Circle – Jim Peterson, CSI
Cost
Registration is $50 for CSI members and $75 for non-members.
Bible Symposium Speaker
Dr. Dru Johnson
Meet Your Facilitator
Dru Johnson is the Templeton Senior Reseach Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, University of Oxford. He researches, writes, and teaches on the intellectual world within biblical literature. He studied psychology as an undergraduate while serving seven years in the US Air Force and National Guard. He earned his MDiv at Covenant Theological Seminary and worked for eight years as a pastor. He earned an MA in analytic philosophy at the University of Missouri—St. Louis and his PhD in biblical studies/theology at the University of St. Andrews. He is ordained in the Evangelical Presbyterian Church (USA). At Wycliffe Hall, Dru directs the Abrahamic Theistic Origins Project (ATOP). Alongside this, he is the founder and director of the Center for Hebraic Thought, a visiting professor at Hope College, editor of the Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Biblical Criticism series, host of The Biblical Mind podcast, and cohost of the OnScript podcast.