Ward Lecture Draws Record Crowd

October 30, 2009

Institute Partners with University of Colorado - Colorado Springs for Premier Event

Colorado Springs, Colo. - A crowd of more than 250 packed the new Upper Lodge facility on the campus of the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs to hear Oxford University Chaplain, the Rev. Dr. Michael Ward, offer his insights into how the late C.S. Lewis might address the political and cultural issues of contemporary America.

The lecture was co-hosted by the John Jay Institute and the Department of Political Science and their recently chartered Center for the Study of Government and the Individual.Spearheaded by department chair Dr. James Null and faculty member Dr. Joshua Dunn, the university's partnership meant a highly successful event for both organizations and a diverse crowd introduced to well-reasoned Christian conservative discourse on current and important issues from historic perspectives. 

Guests in attendance included several local and state political office holders, faculty from the Political Science and History departments as well as campus academic and administration officials, students and a broad cross section of John Jay Institute and UCCS supporters.

It cannot be too strongly impressed on the minds of us all how greatly our individual prosperity depends upon our national prosperity, and how greatly our national prosperity depends on a well organized, vigorous government, ruling by wise and equal laws, faithfully executed; nor is such a government unfriendly to liberty…"
John Jay, Charge to the Grand Jury, April 4, 1790