Central Presbyterian Church NYC - Lectures

Mission in a Secular Age: Follow the Pain

Mission in a Secular Age is a lecture series exploring the intersection between Christ, church, and culture. Listen to Jason Harris discuss the unique features of our cultural moment and how they affect the way in which we should approach a Christ-centered mission to the world around us.

Mission in a Secular Age

Mission in a Secular Age is a lecture series exploring the intersection between Christ, church, and culture. Listen to Jason Harris discuss the unique features of our cultural moment and how they affect the way in which we should approach a Christ-centered mission to the world around us.

Are Churches Essential?

Listen to a special interview between Jason Harris & Professor Michael McConnell as they discuss "Are Churches Essential?" --- Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2002 to 2009, he served as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit. He was nominated by President George W. Bush, a Republican, and confirmed by a...

Are Churches Essential? A Conversation Between Michael McConnell & Jason Harris

God and the Pandemic: Where Is God in the Crisis and Where Should We Be?

Listen to a special interview between Jason Harris & N.T. Wright as they discuss "God and the Pandemic: Where is God and Where Should We Be?" --- N.T. Wright is a New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian, and retired Anglican bishop. From 2003 until 2010, he was the Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. Since then he has served as the Research Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at St Mary’s College in the University of St Andrews in Scotland, and he is currently a Senior ...

Central Lecture Series: Elsie McKee

Central Lecture Series: Os Guinness

Mission in a Secular Age: Part 2

Central Lecture Series: Ligon Duncan

Central Lecture Series: John Lennox

Central Lecture Series: Tyler VanderWeele

Mission in a Secular Age: Part 1

Remarkable Conversion Stories: John Bunyan

Central Lecture Series: Robert George

Remarkable Conversion Stories: Martin Luther

Remarkable Conversion Stories: Augustine

Heaven on Earth--in Advance? Allowing Hope to Shape Our Mission (BAD RECORDING)

Understanding Christian-Muslim Conflict

Vetting the News

Redemptive Vocation

The Great Opportunity

A Journey Through NYC Religions

The Masculinist

Recent Discoveries in Quantum Mechanics

The Neoliberalization of Dating and Marriage

The Heidelberg Catechism - part III

The Heidelberg Catechism - part II

The Heidelberg Catechism

CRU High School

Church Planting & Revitalization in America

How Did the Reformers Read the Bible? Part 2

How Did the Reformers Read the Bible? Part I

Natural Law, God and Human Dignity

Sacred Space in the Secular City

Special Presentation: The Miracle on Park Avenue

Doin' Good Ain't Easy

Testimony of God's Work: Mary A.

Central member Mary A speaks on Easter Sunday about God's work in her life.

A Multifaceted Legacy: The Reformation(s) Viewed from the 21st Century

The Forgotten Secret of American Freedom

Christians in the Public Square

How and when should Christians engage, as Christians, in the public square? When it is appropriate to use specifically religious arguments on questions of public policy? What is the effect on the church? Professor McConnell will offer very tentative thoughts about how to negotiate these difficult questions. Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. Fro...

Entrepreneurship and Identity

Professor Brian Brenberg serves as Chair of the Program in Business and Finance and teaches courses in business and economics at The King’s College. Prior to joining the King’s faculty, he worked in the financial services and medical device industries, as well as public policy research and philanthropy. He earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School and an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School. In addition to his teaching at King’s, Professor Brenberg is a frequent guest on ...

The Christian Roots of Church-State Separation

Many secularists argue that the First Amendment prohibition on the establishment of religion is a guarantee of a purely secular public square, requiring the exclusion of religious voices and institutions. Some religious people respond in kind, by opposing the separation between church and state. Professor McConnell will argue that both are wrong. Church-state separation originated in Protestant Christian teaching, was promoted by the most evangelical sects in America at the founding, and rest...

Christianity and Civil Liberties

Everybody knows about the Enlightenment, but very few know how the Reformation contributed to the development of the ideas of freedom of thought, conscience, speech, and worship. How did we move from Romans 13 to "God Alone Is Lord of the Conscience"? Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2002 to the summer of 2009, he served as a Circuit Judg...

Whatever Happened to the First Amendment?

All across America, it seems that freedom of speech and freedom of religion are under assault. Has this country lost its belief in civil liberty, or civility in general? Where does the Supreme Court stand in all of this? Michael W. McConnell is the Richard and Frances Mallery Professor and Director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School, and a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution. From 2002 to the summer of 2009, he served as a Circuit Judge on the United States Court of...

Open Mouths and Wide Hearts, part II

Reverend Howard Edington dedicated most of his career in ministry rebuilding First Presbyterian Church of Orlando. He was also the "Preacher in Residence" of Central during the early years of Central's turnaround in 2009. Rev. Edington and his wife Trisha describe what they learned from leading First Church and what they would commend to us as we approach the future at Central.

Open Mouths and Wide Hearts, part I

Reverend Howard Edington dedicated most of his career in ministry rebuilding First Presbyterian Church of Orlando. He was also the "Preacher in Residence" of Central during the early years of Central's turnaround in 2009. Rev. Edington and his wife Trisha describe what they learned from leading First Church and what they would commend to us as we approach the future at Central.

Why am I Here? A Personal Religious Journey

Albert J. Raboteau, Ph.D., is the Henry Putnam Professor Emeritus of Religion at Princeton University and a leading expert on African American religious history. Before Raboteau was born, his father, Albert Jordy Raboteau (1899–1943), was killed in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, by a white man who was never convicted of the crime. His mother moved from the South, where she was a teacher, to find a better place for her children. She remarried an African-American priest, who taught Raboteau Latin ...

Rethinking the Sacred Arts

Gordon Graham is Henry Luce III Professor of Philosophy and the Arts at Princeton Theological Seminary. Born in Ireland and educated in Ireland, Scotland and England, he taught philosophy in Scotland at the University of St Andrews from 1975-95 and at the University of Aberdeen from 1996-2006 before taking up his post in Princeton in January 2006. He has published on a wide range of philosophical topics relating to art, education, ethics, politics, religion, and technology. He has a special...

Carl Henry Speaks from Beyond the Grave

Gregory Alan Thornbury, Ph.D., serves as the sixth President of The King’s College in New York City – an institution dedicated to faith, free enterprise, and The American Dream. Called “America’s first hipster college president” by The American Spectator, Dr. Thornbury is also a Visiting Professor at the Values and Capitalism initiative of the American Enterprise Institute; a Senior Fellow for The Kairos Journal; a columnist for Townhall.com; and a member of the editorial board of the Salem M...

The Heidelberg Catechism: Part VIII

George Hunsinger earned his B.D. from Harvard University Divinity School and his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Yale University. He served as director of the Seminary's Center for Barth Studies from 1997 to 2001. George has broad interests in the history and theology of the Reformed tradition and in "generous orthodoxy" as a way beyond the modern liberal/conservative impasse in theology and church. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he was a major contributor to the new Presbyterian catechism....