Keynote Speaker

Don’t be a Camel

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Mark J. Edwards is a Lecturer in Ethics at The College of New Jersey where he teaches popular courses on ethics in technology, and great works of philosophy and religion written by imprisoned authors. He is also a Lecturer in the Department of Religion at Princeton University and has taught numerous Christian theology courses at Princeton Theological Seminary.  He has taught inside New Jersey prisons on behalf of TCNJ, Princeton University, and Princeton Seminary with some of the best students he’s ever had. He holds a PhD in philosophy and theology from Princeton Seminary for work on time and eternity in contemporary philosophy and in the Swiss theologian Karl Barth.  That work was published in 2022 as the book, Christ Is Time: The Gospel according to Karl Barth (and the Red Hot Chili Peppers).  He’s actively involved in his church congregation in Princeton, NJ where he runs the youth program.  This summer he and his wife, Janine, led twenty students and adults on a two-week, 200 mile trek across northern Spain, along the medieval pilgrimage route known as the Camino de Santiago.   He’s hitchhiked around Europe, backpacked around Asia, gotten lost in Africa, gotten found in Canada, and still hopes to be a ski-bum someday. When not in a book or classroom, with bikes, boots, boats, or belays he gravitates toward whatever wilderness he and his family can find.