Join us for dinner, the movie and a discussion of it afterwards. 

Incredibles 2 certainly proves worth the wait, even if it hits the target but not the bull's-eye in quite the way the first one did.  There's plenty of crackling entertainment value here for viewers from 5 to 95.

Still front and center are the key elements that made Brad Bird's original creation so captivating: The tested but resilient bonds within the Middle American family with secret superhero lives, the fabulous late-'50s/early '60s space-age-obsessed design scheme, the deep-dish reservoir of wit, a keenly expressed sense of what it takes to maintain a balanced marriage and great command of a narrative curveball employed to register frequent surprise.Join us for dinner, the movie and a discussion of it afterwards.  

Academically, she explores the contemporary intellectual trends dominant in the various academic disciplines: the sciences, humanities, and social sciences. In 2014, she published Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews (InterVarsity Press). In this book, Poplin examines four major worldviews—naturalism, humanism, pantheism, and Judeo-Christian theism—and explores their implications for human behavior and the evidence for their truth. She is a frequent speaker in Veritas Forums throughout the country.

Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews. Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2014.

Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me about Meaningful Work and Service.Downers Grove, Illinois: InterVarsity Press, 2008.

“A Radical Call to Service: The Five Tasks.” In Gladly Learn, Gladly Teach: Living Out One’s Calling in the Twenty-First Century Academy, edited by John M. Dunaway. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 2005.

Co-authored with John Riviera. “Merging Social Justice and Accountability: Educating Highly Qualified, Responsible and Effective Teachers.” Theory Into Practice 44, no. 1 (2005): 27–37.

Co-authored with Sharon M. Rogers. “Recollections

Join us here at Hill House at 6pm for dinner with Dr. Mary Poplin followed at 7 with her talk on Christianity, secularism and social justice.

In 1996, Poplin worked for two months with Mother Teresa and the Missionaries of Charity in Calcutta to understand why she said their work was “religious work and not social work.” Her book on this experience, Finding Calcutta, was published by InterVarsity Press in 2008 and is also available in Korean and Chinese.

"Find the sick, the suffering and the lonely right there where you are. . . . You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see." --Mother Teresa Lifelong educator Mary Poplin, after experiencing a newfound awakening to faith, sent a letter to Calcutta asking if she could visit Mother Teresa and volunteer with the Missionaries of Charity. She received a response saying, "You are welcome to share in our works of love for the poorest of the poor." So in the spring of 1996, Poplin spent two months in Calcutta as a volunteer. There she observed Mother Teresa's life of work and service to the poor, participating in the community's commitments to simplicity and mercy. Mother Teresa's unabashedly religious work stands in countercultural contrast to the limitations of our secular age. Poplin's journey gives us an inside glimpse into one of the most influential lives of the twentieth century and the lessons Mother Teresa continues to offer. Upon Poplin's return, she soon discovered that God was calling her to serve the university world with the same kind of holistic service with which Mother Teresa served Calcutta. Not everyone can go to Calcutta. But all of us can find our own meaningful work and service. Come and answer the call to find your Calcutta!

Upstate New York pastor Toller (Ethan Hawke) has fallen upon troubled times, after pushing his son to enlist only to see him killed in action. But that's only the beginning. An encounter with Mary (Amanda Seyfried) and her militant environmental activist husband further shakes his world, and Toller spirals down a psychological abyss even a lifetime of faith can't prepare him for.

Longtime Scorsese collaborator Paul Schrader (TAXI DRIVER, RAGING BULL, THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST) continues a career-long investigation of men pushed to their breaking point in the incendiary FIRST REFORMED. Bringing his trademark themes into the modern world of extremism and division, this is a story of vigilantism that only Schrader could tell.

Paul, Apostle of Christ is the story of two men. Luke, as a friend and physician, risks his life every time he ventures into the city of Rome to visit Paul, who is held captive in Nero's darkest, bleakest prison cell. Before Paul's death sentence can be enacted, Luke resolves to write another book, one that details the beginnings of "The Way" and the birth of what will come to be known as the church. But Nero is determined to rid Rome of Christians, and does not flinch from executing them in the grisliest ways possible. Bound in chains, Paul's struggle is internal. He has survived so much--floggings, shipwreck, starvation, stoning, hunger and thirst, cold and exposure--yet as he waits for his appointment with death, he is haunted by the shadows of his past misdeeds. Alone in the dark, he wonders if he has been forgotten... and if he has the strength to finish well. Two men struggle against a determined emperor and the frailties of the human spirit in order to bequeath the Gospel of Jesus Christ to the world.