# Event Details

- **Event Name**: "The Classics & Spiritual Formation in the Year of America's 250th" with Dr. Nadya Williams 
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 03:30 pm
- **Event Description**: **This event is free and open to the community.**

John Brown University will host classicist and historian Nadya Williams (PhD, Princeton University) for its Honors University Lecture on Monday, March 2, at 3:30 p.m., in Simmons Great Hall C. Williams will lecture on “The Classics and Spiritual Formation in the Year of America’s 250th: Why Jerusalem Still Needs Athens in the Age of AI.”

Williams will examine what we lose when we neglect the classics and why America, a country founded by people who were grounded in the Classics, still needs Athens in the age of artificial intelligence.

She is the author of "Cultural Christians in the Early Church" (Zondervan Academic, 2023), "Mothers, Children, and the Body Politic: Ancient Christianity and the Recovery of Human Dignity" (IVP Academic, 2024), and "Christians Reading Classics" (Zondervan Academic, 2025). She is Books Editor at Mere Orthodoxy, where she hosts the "Christians Reading Classics Podcast." She is also a Contributor at Christianity Today, a Contributing Editor at Front Porch Republic and Providence Magazine, and Featured Author at Fairer Disputations. 

Williams is a homeschool mom, writer and editor based in Ashland, Ohio, where she serves as Interim Director of the MFA in Creative Writing at Ashland University. 

The lecture is sponsored by JBU's Honors Scholars Program.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/siloam-springs/the-classics-and-spiritual-formation-in-the-year-of-americas-250th-with-dr-nadya-williams/200029737554130
- **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, artificial-intelligence
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 13

## Ticket Details


## Event venue details

- **city**: Siloam Springs
- **state**: AR
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Simmons Great Hall At JBU
- **lat**: 36.190100987
- **long**: -94.560250512
- **full address**: Simmons Great Hall At JBU, 2000 W. University St,Siloam Springs,AR,United States

## Event gallery

- **Alt text**: "The Classics & Spiritual Formation in the Year of America's 250th" with Dr. Nadya Williams
  - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/fa8a6c735b8273f68e2b80aa657745d8ab704639e154d4144d494d147bc0915c-rimg-w1200-h675-dc8dbadb-gmir?v=1772145810

## FAQs

- **Q**: When and where is "The Classics & Spiritual Formation in the Year of America's 250th" with Dr. Nadya Williams  being held?
  - **A:** "The Classics & Spiritual Formation in the Year of America's 250th" with Dr. Nadya Williams  takes place on Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 03:30 pm to Mon, 02 Mar, 2026 at 03:30 pm at Simmons Great Hall At JBU, 2000 W. University St,Siloam Springs,AR,United States.
- **Q**: Who is organizing "The Classics & Spiritual Formation in the Year of America's 250th" with Dr. Nadya Williams ?
  - **A:** "The Classics & Spiritual Formation in the Year of America's 250th" with Dr. Nadya Williams  is organized by John Brown University.

## Structured Data (JSON-LD)

```json
[
    {
        "@context": "https://schema.org",
        "@type": "Event",
        "name": ""The Classics & Spiritual Formation in the Year of America's 250th" with Dr. Nadya Williams",
        "image": "https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/fa8a6c735b8273f68e2b80aa657745d8ab704639e154d4144d494d147bc0915c-rimg-w1200-h675-dc8dbadb-gmir?v=1772145810",
        "startDate": "2026-03-02",
        "url": "https://allevents.in/siloam-springs/the-classics-and-spiritual-formation-in-the-year-of-americas-250th-with-dr-nadya-williams/200029737554130",
        "location": {
            "@type": "Place",
            "name": "Simmons Great Hall At JBU",
            "address": {
                "@type": "PostalAddress",
                "streetAddress": "2000 W. University St,Siloam Springs,AR,United States",
                "addressLocality": "Siloam Springs",
                "addressRegion": "AR",
                "addressCountry": "US"
            },
            "geo": {
                "@type": "GeoCoordinates",
                "latitude": "36.190100987",
                "longitude": "-94.560250512"
            }
        },
        "eventAttendanceMode": "https://schema.org/OfflineEventAttendanceMode",
        "description": "**This event is free and open to the community.**\n\nJohn Brown University will host classicist and historian Nadya Williams (PhD, Princeton University) for its Honors University Lecture on Monday, March 2, at 3:30 p.m., in Simmons Great Hall C. Williams will lecture on “The Classics and Spiritual For",
        "organizer": [
            {
                "@type": "Organization",
                "name": "John Brown University",
                "url": "https://allevents.in/org/john-brown-university/12845741",
                "description": "JBU is a private Christian university, ranked No. 1 overall & a Best Value among Southern regional colleges by U.S. News. JBU enrolls 2,800+ students. "
            }
        ]
    }
]
```