Next Faith and Society lecture to feature Christian Miller on March 25

ASHLAND, Ohio – Christian Miller, the A. C. Reid Professor of Philosophy at Wake Forest University, will be the guest at the next edition of Ashland University’s Faith and Society lecture series. The event, which is free and open to the public, is scheduled for Friday, March 25, at the College of Education’s Ronk Auditorium at 3 p.m. A complimentary reception will follow the program.

For those unable to attend in person, Miller’s presentation will be streamed at ashlanduniversity.zoom.us/j/92013403214. The title of his lecture is “Falling Short and Becoming a Better Person: Insights from Psychology, Philosophy and Christianity.”

A faculty member in the department of philosophy at Wake Forest since 2004, Miller specializes in contemporary ethics and philosophy of religion. He is currently directing The Honesty Project, which studies both the philosophy of honesty and the science of honesty. Prior to that, Miller supported The Beacon Project, which examined morally exceptional people from the perspectives of philosophy, theology and psychology, and he directed The Character Project, one of the largest research projects in the world on virtue and moral character.

Miller is the author of five books, with his first trade book for a general audience being “The Character Gap: How Good Are We?”. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek and Christianity Today among numerous other media outlets. In addition to his academic writings and teaching, Miller is a science contributor for Forbes.

Miller earned a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Princeton University and a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. He was also a visiting scholar at the University of Michigan.

The ongoing Faith and Society lecture series is designed to give Ashland students and the Ashland community the opportunity to hear experts discuss critical topics of faith and its implications in contemporary society.

For more information, please contact Dennis Monokroussos at dmonokro@ashland.edu or 419-289-5154.

Ashland University is a mid-sized, private university conveniently located a short distance from Akron, Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio. Ashland University (www.ashland.edu) values the individual student and offers a unique educational experience that combines the challenge of strong applied academic programs with a faculty and staff who build nurturing relationships with their students.