An evening of learning to interpret the world around us, “Signs of the Times” is an opportunity people of faith to more thoughtfully understand and intentionally engage broader culture through the study of some of its most skilled interpreters.

Join us the evening of February 20, 2025 at 7PM Central Time. We’ll be discussing the works of these books and authors as well as some others. You do not have to have read any of these books before attending to benefit from our discussion.

1 Hour of Lecture

1 Hour of Group Discussion

1 (Optional) Virtual Happy Hour to Follow

Signs of the Times: Reading Culture in the 21st Century

Sign up at the form below to get a Zoom link before the class on the 20th of February, 2025.

This is a donation-based event. Pay what you can, but we want you there even if that amount is 0.

Suggested donation: $20

Who is Ryan?

Teacher. Speaker. Writer.

Ethicist. Theologian. Bonhoeffer Scholar.

Ryan brings together the worlds of academic thought and daily life in his teaching, speaking, and writing. He believes that God wants to form people in spiritual, relational, cultural, and political ways as they seek to follow Jesus, and wants to be a part of that process of (re)formation in the lives of diverse leaders, churches, and communities.

Ryan has been teaching, speaking, writing, and helping people grow for over 20 years in church, school, college, seminary, and corporate settings. Ryan is an affiliate assistant professor of Christian Ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary. His first book, Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Ethics of Formation, from Fortress Academic Press, was released in 2020. His next book, released in 2023 and written for a popular audience, is FORMATION [1]: How to Read the Bible. He has also written a chapters (on Christian friendship and education) in the Cambridge Scholar’s Publishing volume—Moral Formation in a Secular Age: An Interdisciplinary Look at the Works of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Marilynne Robinson (2016) and IVP Academic’s Discerning Ethics: Diverse Christian Responses to Divisive Moral Issues (2020). He holds a PhD in Theology, with a major concentration in Christian Ethics and minor concentration in Church History, from Fuller Theological Seminary, and a ThM from Boston College. He lives with his wife, Jessica, and two sons, Max and Theo, in Nashville, TN.