Megan's Speaking Topics

The Case for Life  
Learn to make and defend a winsome and compelling case for the pro-life view that will stand in the marketplace of ideas. Megan’s training will teach an audience to establish the humanity of the unborn with scientific reasons, and to ground the value of every human being philosophically. She seamlessly weaves her pro-life message with the gospel, which encourages even those who disagree with her view at the outset. Megan has the ability to tailor this talk to any particular audience. 

 

Reforming the Abortion Narrative: Six Bad Ways that People Argue for Abortion  
See the truth of the pro-life view shine by coming at it from the other side—the ways abortion advocates argue for abortion—and learn practical ways to respond.

 

Just Human 
In a culture that reduces values to “just a,” to be “just human” doesn’t cut it, and the effects have been devastating. Learn how today’s culture answers the question, “What does it mean to be human?” And see how the Christian worldview shines when it tells us that to be “just human” is more than enough. 

 

Bioethics: An Overview
A general biblical approach to ethics at the fringes of life (and in between) as bioethics and related technologies continue to rapidly advance.

 

Beauty: The Art of War
We live in a culture that thinks it is obsessed with beauty, but beauty has been brushed aside as unimportant, something that is only “in the eye of the beholder.” As a result, we actually live in a culture that is starving for it. Megan demonstrates that beauty is not only real but vital. Learn how beauty has been defined, the effects it has, and how it awakens longing within us. Explore beauty as it relates to God, to art, and to us, and leave knowing that every beautiful contribution you make is an act of defiance against brokenness and death.

 

The Bankruptcy of Moral Relativism
Relativism will probably be the biggest confronter of students as they leave home, church, or school. Any claim to truth, especially truth that’s religious or moral in nature, is categorized as a preference by our world. Students need to be able to recognize and combat this, and make sure they haven’t relativized their own thoughts in regards to their Christian convictions.

 

Lessons from Babylon
Learn from Daniel and his friends in Babylon how to engage our own culture effectively on some of today’s key issues.

 

Launching and Thriving: Practical Wisdom and Tools for Students Leaving Home
We’ve heard of the startling number of students who leave home and leave their Christian faith behind. Let’s look at things from a different angle…what about those who leave home and flourish in their faith? It turns out they have some things in common. Learn from these findings as you prepare (or prepare your student) for what’s coming, and navigate next steps with confidence.

 

Does What We Think About Marriage “Ring” True? 
A natural law approach to the question, “Is marriage real like gravity?” that locates marriage—the triad of father, mother, child[ren]—as an essential part of the world we live in, and demonstrates its benefits to society through historical, sociological, and anthropological evidence.

 

The Great “Divorces”  

(NOTE: Given in conjunction with “Does What We Think About Marriage ‘Ring’ True?”)

If marriage is a part of reality, why has our definition of it shifted? A look at how the sexual revolution “divorced” relationships between sex, marriage, and procreation, and what effects it has had on the air we breathe when it comes to those areas now.

 

In Search of the Real Thing: Love, Sex, and Marriage 
A shortened combination of the above two talks: “Does What We Think About Marriage ‘Ring’ True?” and “The Great ‘Divorces.’”

 

Is the Bible a Good Book? 
Challenges are often raised against the Bible. "It is oppressive to women." "It promotes slavery." "It condones genocide."  Megan will address these issues within a lesson of how to approach and understand the Bible for what it is.