2025 Austin Lecture: Can Christianity Be Noble?

Matthew B. Crawford will present this year’s 2025 Austin Lecture “Can Christianity be Noble?” on Monday, September 22 at 7 p.m. The lecture will be held at the University Avenue Church of Christ in partnership with the Center for Christian Studies.

Crawford earned a B.S. in Physics from U.C. Santa Barbara, then later a PhD in Political Philosophy from the University of Chicago, situating him as a great thinker at the intersection of science, politics, and philosophy. His writings focus on ancient Greek philosophy, neuroscience, and the philosophy of science. Crawford is a fellow at University of Virginia’s Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, an interdisciplinary research center and intellectual community committed to understanding contemporary cultural change and its individual and social consequences, training young scholars, and providing intellectual leadership in service to the common good. He is also a mechanic and owns a motorcycle repair shop, Shockoe Moto, in Richmond, Virginia.

He is the author of Why We Drive: Toward a Philosophy of the Open Road (HarperCollins, 2020); The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2015); and Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the Value of Work (Penguin, 2009). Crawford’s work can also be found in First Things, the Wall Street Journal, New Atlantis, Hedgehog Review, UnHerd, Compact, and on his Substack, Archedelia.

To read Crawford’s articles in First Things, click here.

Registration coming soon!