Charles L. Harper,Jr., executive director and senior vice president of the JohnTempleton Foundation, delivered Gonzaga University's 2ndannual Bellarmine Lecture, Wednesday, March 3 in the BarbieriCourtroom of the Gonzaga School of Law.

The lecture wasentitled, "Science/Technology/Enterprise and Finding YourSpiritual Calling: Exploring New Visions for a NewCentury".

Harper focuses ondeveloping strategic leadership in the area of buildingconstructive bridges between science and religion. His work isspecialized in strategic and innovative program design anddevelopment, focused on the implementation of entrepreneurialventure capital business model approaches inphilanthropy.

Harper was aNational Research fellow at NASA Johnson Space Center from1988-1991, and earned a doctorate from Oxford University in 1988for a thesis on the nature of time in cosmology. During this timehe war awarded a Squire-Marriot scholarship at Oxford University tostudy theology, and was granted a diploma in theology from Oxfordin 1988 as well. In 1997 Harvard University awarded Harper aCertificate of Special Studies in Management andAdministration.

MoreInformation: www.templeton.org

In 2001, a Gonzaga Regentestablished a fund through his family foundation for a new lectureseries at the university to deal with issues of culture, religionand law. These streaming videos are from the first annual talk fromthis endowment for the BellarmineLecture.

Gonzaga's first presenter for the BellarmineLecture is Dr. Philip Jenkins. Dr. Jenkins was bornin Wales. He was educated at ClairCollege Cambridge and received both his undergraduate and graduatedegrees from Cambridge.Since 1980, he has taught at PennState University where he is currently DistinguishedProfessor of History and ReligiousStudies.

Dr. Jenkins is theauthor of 18 books including:

1. Mystics andMessiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History,2000
2.Hidden Gospels: How the Search for Jesus Lost its Way,2001
3.The Next Christendom, 2002
4.The New Anti-Catholicism, 2003
5. Pending,Native American Religions

Dr.Jenkins gave two presentations in this first inaugural BellarmineLecture. On Thursday, April 24^th, Dr. Jenkins spokeabout The New Anti-Catholicism. Saturday, April26^th, Dr. Jenkins will deliver his second lecture onThe Next Christendom: The Coming of GlobalChristianity.