2025 FSI Conference Features Dr. Derek Rishmawy on the Theme of Divine Holiness
Covenant Seminary is pleased to announce that the 2025 edition of the Francis Schaeffer Institute (FSI) Conference will explore the theme of Divine Holiness: The Neglected Apologetic in a Pagan Age. The featured speaker for the lectures will be Dr. Derek Rishmawy, Reformed University Fellowship (RUF) Campus Minister at the University of California, Irvine, and a host of the Mere Fidelity podcast. The conference will take place Friday, September 12, and Saturday, September 13, in Rayburn Chapel on the Covenant Seminary campus.
Dr. Derek Rishmawy
In addition to his campus ministry, Dr. Rishmawy, who holds a PhD from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, is a frequent contributor to The Gospel Coalition and a fellow with the Keller Center for Cultural Apologetics. His FSI Conference lectures will delve into the tumultuous nature of the time in which we live—characterized by political vibe shifts, intensive pluralism, the rise of AI, transhumanism, plummeting levels of social connection, religious entrepreneurship, and a seeming revival of questions around the place of Christianity within Western culture. Amid the alienation, many are experiencing a deep religious hunger. In the swirling chaos, they seek meaning and rootedness, a connection to the transcendent, the real, and the sacred. These impulses drive people in a variety of spiritual directions, many of which can arguably be understood as varieties of Paganism.
How can the church be a powerful and effective witness for truth within this cultural context? Dr. Rishmawy argues that a renewed and revitalized focus on the holiness of God must be central to our own lives as Christians and central to our witness to those around us. It is in God’s holiness that we find the deepest source of all spiritual longings and the wellspring of the theological understanding that enables us to pursue our life together as God’s holy people in the midst of a watching world that is desperate for real hope.
All are invited to join us for the conference as we explore this theme and its implications for our current cultural moment. Individual tickets are $59; couples are $89. Students receive the special rate of $25.
