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Registration for the conference includes lunches on both Friday and Saturday and a banquet dinner on Friday. There are hotel blocks reserved at the Fairfield Inn Grand Rapids (616-940-2700; price: $119 for 2 queens/$129 king) and the Homewood Suites Grand Rapids (616-285-7100; $139 king). Please reserve your rooms as soon as possible; we are working to add extra blocks. When you call ask for rooms in the SCP (or Society of Christian Philosophers) 45th anniversary conference.

Here is the conference schedule:

Session 1	Thursday	3-4:00
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East
Title	God and Pseudo-Selves	Liberalism & the Reasons We Cannot Share	God, Rights, &Rational Nature	How to be a Divine Conceptualist
Presenter	Kyle Huitt	Kyla Ebels Duggan	Brian Ballard	Michael Willenborg
Commentator	Jeremy Skrzypek	Kevin Vallier	Terence Cuneo	Jacob Huls
Chair	Caleb Cohoe	Andrew Moon	Austin McCoy	Ethan Butt
Plenary 1	Thursday	4:15-5:45	Laura Callahan	Intellectual Humility and Christian Faith
Session 2	Friday	9:30-10:30
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East
Title	Combination Theory of Belief	Gratitude & Inequality	Excessive Gratuitous Evil	The Argument from Altruism
Presenter	Andrew Moon	Austin McCoy	Klaas Kraay	Rob MacSwain
Commentator	Josh Thurow	Paul Jensen	Libby Regnerus	Leigh Vicens
Chair	Jim Taylor	Kyle Huitt	Brian Ballard	Michael Willenborg
Session 3	Friday	10:45-11:45
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East	E
Title	Hinge Epistemology & Religious Belief	Love is the Link Between Welfare & Duty	The Gap in the Evil God Challenge	Impassibilism & Pastoral Arguments in Theology
Presenter	Eyob Sirak Zewdie	Phil Woodward	Justin Mooney	Matthew Baddorf
Commentator	Liz Jackson	Jordan Wessling	Thes Kascsak	Jacob Zimbelman
Chair	Jeffrey Koperski	Amy Floweree	Rob MacSwain	Libby Regeneru
Session 4	Friday	1:30-2:30
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East
Title	Solution for the Immortality Curmudgeons	The Ethics of Interpretation	The Forgotten felix culpa theodicy & anti-theodicy of John Hick	Persons, Relations, Receptivity, God	Reckless Courage: Fear & Trembling
Presenter	Dan Kemp	Amy Floweree	Jaeha Woo	James Kintz	David Skowronski
Commentator	Phil Woodward	Mike Rea	Harriet Baber	Tyler Sharp	Amber Bowen
Chair	Dean Zimmerman	Jacob Zimbelman	Jeffrey Koperski	Darrin Snyder Belousek	Justin Mooney
Session 5	Friday	2:45-3:45
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East
Title	Post-mortal Annihilation	Practicing Farewell	Daycare & Swim Lessons: Skeptical Theism & the Parent-Child Analogy	Foundationalism for Christian Philosophy
Presenter	Michael Cevering	Scott Davison	Dolores Morris	Walter Stepanenko
Commentator	Justin Brittain	Cody Dolinsek	Timothy Pawl	James Taylor
Chair	William Vincent	David Skowronski	Joshua Thurow	James Kintz
Plenary 2	Friday	4:00-5:30	Manuel Vargas	Advice to Philosophers in the Christian Twilight
Banquet		5:45
Worship	Saturday	9-9:45	Officiant: Rob MacSwain	Musician: Phil Woodward
Session 6	Saturday	10-11
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East
Title	Causality, Necessity, & Freedom	A Christian Ethics of Blame	Evil & the Quantum Multiverse	Thomistic Survival & Euthanasia
Presenter	Alexander Spieldenner	Bob Hartman	Eddy Chen and Daniel Rubio	Christopher Tomaszewki
Commentator	John Waldrop	Jada Twedt Strabbing	Tim O’Connor	Caleb Cohoe
Chair	Philip Swenson	Isabel Canfield	Dominic Lamantia	Jack VanDrunen
Session 7	Saturday	11:15-12:15
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East
Title	Indeterministic Response to the Grounding Objection	What is Politicization?	First Sin of an Unconfirmed Angel	Aristotelian Solution to Evolutionary Debunking Arguments
Presenter	Tien-Chun Lo	Rich Eva	James Pepe	Paul Rezkalla
Commentator	Philip Swenson	Isabel Canfield	Dominic LaMantia	Jack VanDrunen
Chair	Christopher Tomaszewski	Alexander Spieldenner	Bob Hartman	Amber Bowen
Session 8	Saturday	2-3
Room	Hickory	Willow East	Willow West	Great Hall East
Title	On Penance	Faith is an Epistemic Virtue	Plantinga without Occasionalism	Monarchy & Mystery
Presenter	Justin Capes	Ethan Butt	Jeffrey Koperski	H. E. Baber
Commentator	Grace Hibshman	Rebecca Kates	Daniel Rubio	William Vincent
Chair	Paul Rezkalla	Jaeha Woo	Rich Eva	Kate Finley
Plenary 3	Saturday	3:15-4:45	Charity Anderson	Divine Hiddenness and the Problem of Evil