Join us for the 2025 Beeson Preaching Conference, July 15-17, as we explore the theme, “Persuasive Preaching: Story, Imagination and Apologetics.” The keynote speaker will be one of Christianity’s preeminent theologians and apologists, Dr. Alister McGrath. Other contributors include Justin Bailey, Josh Chatraw, Karen Swallow Prior, Robert Smith Jr., Maurice Watson, Trevin Wax, and Douglas Webster. Together, we will seek to integrate new developments in apologetics into the pulpit so that we might more faithfully open the imaginations and move the hearts of our listeners for the sake of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

The Beeson Preaching Conference is sponsored by The Spirit and Power Project at Samford University, a work made possible by a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment, Inc., as part of its Compelling Preaching Initiative. The aim of the conference is to exhibit and celebrate exemplary preaching and preachers of God’s word and to learn from them how we might communicate the Gospel in more compelling ways.

Learn more about the conference, speakers and other information by visiting our preaching conference page.