Award-winning author, radio personality and Christian apologist Ravi Zacharias will speak at Oklahoma Christian University as a part of the McGaw Lectures.
Zacharias has authored or edited more than 20 books and has spoken across the globe. He grew up in India and moved to Canada with his family during his teenage years.
“He was kind of a nominal type of Christian… until later as a older teenager, he had kind of a crisis of faith and came to have a deeper appreciation of Christian faith and its importance and significance,” Bible Professor John Harrison said.
Harrison is the director of the McGaw Lectures promoting faith in God. He, with a group of others, decided to bring in Zacharias as this year’s speaker. Last year, N.T. Wright spoke on campus.
After moving to Canada, Zacharias began preaching and teaching, and eventually went on to get his master’s at Trinity International University in Illinois.
“He has developed as a very forceful, passionate defender of core Christian ideals,” Harrison said.
Monday night’s lecture at Oklahoma Christian is titled “Secularization and the Death of Absolutes.”
“Secularization tries to strip society of resorting to religious faith to answer problems that the world is faced to solve,” Harrison said.
Zacharias will speak at 7:30 p.m. in the Payne Athletic Center on Monday.
“We… feel very fortunate that we have someone… [that] can pack a 10,000 seat room and that we have someone of that kind of popularity getting ready to come here,” Harrison said.
Tickets are currently sold out for the event, but overflow tickets to a live-stream in Hardeman Auditorium are available here.
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