Speakers
Keynote Speaker Dr. William Struthers is a Professor of Psychology at Wheaton College and author of Wired for Intimacy: How Pornography Hijacks the Male Brain. His professional memberships include the Society for Neuroscience, Faculty for Undergraduate Neuroscience, Association for Psychological Science, and International Neuroethics Society. Dr. Struthers was named a Visiting Research Fellow to Biola University's Center for Christian Thought in 2014 for his work on the impact of sexual exploitation on spirituality. As a Visiting Scholar in Science and Religion at Oxford he is currently researching neuroscience and culture as part of the Oxford Interdisciplinary Seminars in Science and Religion: Bridging the Two Cultures of Science and the Humanities.
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Keynote Speaker Jessica Harris is a blogger and the author of Beggar's Daughter: From the Rags of Pornography to the Riches of Grace. Stories move her so she loves to tell them. She travels the world raising awareness, training leadership, and educating youth, and speaking out about tough issues—the ones we're perhaps too overwhelmed to talk about in the church—sexual addiction among women, sexual abuse, and prolonged singleness, just to name a few. Most of all she speaks out for grace.
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Audrey Assad will share a personal testimony in the morning on her own experience in the past with addiction to pornography. In the evening, she will perform a concert at the Charles Wood Theater. She is the daughter of a Syrian refugee, an author, speaker, producer, and critically lauded songwriter and musician. She releases music she calls “soundtracks for prayer” on the label Fortunate Fall Records, which she co-owns with her husband William.
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