a conference for
graduate students,
faculty, and
professionals

We live in a culture where lawyers are often objects of derision. Yet we worship a God who spoke to his people in part through law, and the Psalms say that God's law is a delight to the soul and something to be treasured. Again, Jesus had plenty of harsh things to say to the lawyers of his day. Yet Paul taught that the state (which usually acts on its citizens by means of law) is ordained by God, and Christians for two millennia have found the legal professions an honorable calling.

In the Law track at Following Christ, we want to explore these tensions. Our goal is to affirm ways that lawyers and law students can honor God in contemporary society, without papering over the systemic and personal sin that pervades legal education and the legal profession. Delegates will wrestle with questions like these:

• How should Christian law students understand and respond to what they study in secular law schools?

• What does a Christian legal career look like? Is it possible and practical to follow Jesus while working in a corporate law firm, a prosecutor's office, a public defender's office?

• What are the opportunities for global missions in the legal profession? Might God be calling me to explore them?

• How can believers be salt and light in our law schools and law firms?

As we think and talk together about these things, we will be guided by a mix of practitioners and academics who can discuss their own efforts to honor Christ in their jobs. The Law track program will employ talks, discussions, small-group study, and prayer as we try to discover together how best to serve Jesus in the positions to which he has called us.