Abortion: The Changing Debate
Pre-Conference Event | Friday, October 24
On the Friday evening before our Saturday conference, First OPC will co-host a pre-conference alongside Live Oak Academy. Last year, we tackled the important topic of human sexuality. This year, we will look at the ethical question of abortion, in a series of talks we’ve entitled Abortion: The Changing Debate.
Dr. Mark Jones will tackle this important and controversial topic from a Biblical and theological perspective, and we will also be joined by a special guest, Mark Bowlby, a teacher at Live Oak Academy in Santa Clara, CA.
All are welcome to join us for Friday and/or Saturday! Just use the registration link below to register for one, or both, of these events.
Speakers
Mark Bowlby
Mark Bowlby teaches at Live Oak Academy and holds a B.S. in Electronic Engineering from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and a Certificate in Christian Apologetics from Biola University. Before teaching, he spent over two decades in Silicon Valley, leading marketing and partnership teams at Xilinx and CloudCar.
Mark has served as an elder and missions board member at Church on the Hill in San Jose and was part of the launch team for The River Church Community. He’s led over fifteen mission trips to Mexico and has decades of experience leading Bible studies and small groups.
He and his wife Lorie have been married since 1996 and have one son, a Live Oak Academy graduate now attending Biola. Mark enjoys studying the California Gold Rush, intelligent design, and apologetics.
Dr. Mark Jones
Mark Jones (Ph.D., Leiden, 2009) has been the minister at Faith Vancouver Presbyterian Church (PCA), Canada since 2007. He is also Research Associate in the Faculty of Theology at the University of the Free State (Bloemfontein) and Lecturer in Dogmatic Theology at John Wycliffe Theological College, in association with North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus), South Africa.
Mark is a lover of the Puritans, and his doctoral dissertation was entitled, ‘Why Heaven Kissed Earth: The Christology of the Puritan Reformed Orthodox Theologian, Thomas Goodwin (1600–1680)’. He has authored and edited several books, including A Puritan Theology: Doctrine for Life; and Antinomianism: Reformed Theology’s Unwelcome Guest?. In 2015 the Banner of Truth published his Knowing Christ.
Mark is married to Barb and they have four children.
Schedule
6:00 PM
7:00 PM
7:30 PM
8:30 PM
Talk #1 | Mark Bowlby
Break
Talk #2 | Dr. Mark Jones
Panel Discussion
Co-Hosted by
Live Oak Academy is a classical Christian educational service for home school families, providing students with excellent studies within a loving, nurturing environment. Our mission is to foster creativity, maturity, knowledge and wisdom in every area of learning. We emphasize the three stages of educational development that characterize classical education: first, the grammar stage, teaching solid factual foundations; second, the logic stage, focusing on sound reasoning and critical thinking skills; and third, the rhetoric stage, empowering students to express themselves with clarity and confidence.