The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation provides speakers for a wide variety of events every year from our pool of over 60 allied scholars. Our Founder and National Spokesman Dr. E. Calvin Beisner  also speaks often each year for conferences, churches, schools, and civic groups.

We are currently booking available time in 2019 and 2020. If you or someone you know is interested in booking a Cornwall Alliance speaker, please fill out this speakers request form and email Megan Kinard at Megan@CornwallAlliance.org. We will work with you to plan the best event for your budget and audience.

Cornwall Contributor Gregory Wrightstone speaks often on the topics of:

• How rising temperature and increasing carbon dioxide are benefiting the Earth and humanity.
• Inconvenient facts: the cold, hard truth about our changing climate (his book can be found in our store, here).
• The evolving role of geoscientists in climate change science.

Dr. Beisner has prepared three new lecture series of three talks each for 2019. From this list the whole series can be presented at an event, or just one or two individual talks. We can also mix and match talks from various series.

Series 1: Environmentalism and Climate Change: How Christians Can Discern Truth from Error

Talk 1: Five Reasons Why Christians Must Make Biblically Sound Earth Stewardship a Priority

In this 15- to 30-minute talk, Dr. Beisner explains the difference between environmentalism and radical environmentalism and contrasts both with Biblical earth stewardship. He begins by showing that radical environmentalism is a false religion, contrasting five worldviews (secular atheist materialism, pantheism, panentheism, animism, and Biblical theism). In contrast to Christianity, radical environmentalism degrades man, deifies nature, and disregards the poor. Then he explains why and how radical environmentalism is the face of the anti-human, pro-death agenda; how it works like a Trojan horse targeting Christian youth; and how it harms people, especially the poor, through its use of poor science, economics, and ethics that lead to harmful public policies. He concludes by explaining that Christians must know and carry out God’s commands regarding earth stewardship and care for the poor while proclaiming the good news that sinful people can be reconciled to the holy God by faith in Jesus Christ’s atoning death and resurrection.

Talk 2: Top Myths of Climate Change—Smashed!

In this 30- to 50-minute talk, Dr. Beisner refutes claims like “97% of all scientists agree” about catastrophic, anthropogenic (man-caused) global warming; explains why appeal to consensus is unscientific; presents extensive empirical evidence that human influence on global temperature, though almost surely real, is also almost certainly very slight and not dangerous; and demonstrates that prescriptions to reduce or reverse global warming by a drastic substitution of “renewable” energy sources like wind and solar for the fossil fuels that today provide about 85% of all energy humans use would, if followed do far more harm than good to people and the planet alike.

Talk 3: CO2—Bane or Boon to People and Planet?

In this 15- to 40-minute talk, Dr. Beisner explains the enormous benefits of deriving energy from fossil fuels not only to humanity but also to the rest of life on earth. The benefits include, on the one hand, the abundant, affordable, reliable energy indispensable to lifting and keeping any society out of poverty and the high rates of disease that inevitably accompany it, and, on the other hand, the enhanced growth of almost all plants, including especially agricultural crops, making food more abundant, affordable, and reliable for people and all the rest of life on earth.

Series 2: Environmentalism, Population Control, and Poverty, 2019: Christian Responsibility in a World of Confusion

Talk 1: Five Reasons Why Christians Must Make Biblically Sound Earth Stewardship a Priority

See summary above under Series 1.

Talk 2: “Mommy, are there really too many people in the world?” How to Protect Your Kids from the Lies of Overpopulation

In this 25- to 50-minute talk, Dr. Beisner presents Biblical, scientific, and economic reasons why fears of overpopulation are false and explains how such fears provide the rationale for eugenics, government-run family planning, forced sterilization and abortion, and even racism. He explains that because people are made in God’s image to be creative and productive as He is, they can actually make more resources than they consume, and because He has given them intelligence and called them to steward His creation, they can achieve prosperity without poisoning the planet.

Talk 3: Christian Missions, Development, and the Poor: Creating a Biblical Ethic of Environmental Stewardship that Cares for People and Planet

In this 25- to 50-minute talk, Dr. Beisner explains how Biblically sound environmental stewardship, economic development for the poor, and the preaching of the saving gospel of Jesus Christ can be interwoven for whole-person evangelism and discipleship in which the Great Commission of Matthew 28:19 and the Dominion Mandate of Genesis 1:28 serve each other.

Series 3: “Oh, How I Love Your Law!” Revealing the Beauty and Wisdom of the Ten Commandments***

Talk 1: Grasping the Genius and Beauty of the Ten Commandments

In this 25- to 50-minute talk, Dr. Beisner introduces the Ten Commandments by describing the historical situation in which God gave them to Israel and the surrounding worldviews that they challenged; defines and explains the three categories of Biblical law (ceremonial, civil, and moral) and how they relate to modern Christians; explains the three uses of the law as mirror, guardian to lead us to Christ, and guide for conduct; and explains basic principles for interpreting and applying the Ten Commandments.

Talk 2: The Ten Commandments and Our Relationship to God

In this 25- to 50-minute talk, Dr. Beisner introduces the meaning and application of the first four commandments (no other gods; no idols; no abusing God’s name; remembering the Sabbath)—the commandments that speak of man’s “vertical duties” to God.

Talk 3: The Ten Commandments and Our Relationships with Our Fellow Men

In this 25- to 50-minute talk, Dr. Beisner introduces the meaning and application of the fifth through tenth commandments (honor parents; no murder; no adultery; no stealing; no false witness; no coveting)—the commandments that speak of man’s “horizontal duties” to his neighbors.

***This series condenses and introduces Dr. Beisner’s 23-lecture series, on 6 DVDs, on the Ten Commandments, which includes an on-line study guide. Together the lectures and the study guide offer the equivalent of a seminary-level course in Biblical ethics suitable for use in Sunday schools, community groups, home schools, Christians schools, and college and seminary courses.

(Editor’s Note: Article edited on Feb. 7, 2019 to add additional speaker information.)