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CSLI-Nairobi & CSLI-Greenville
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Could Our Education Be Ruining Us?
An African Engagement with C.S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis, one of Oxford University’s most influential professors and Christian thinkers, warned that education detached from objective truth and virtue would ultimately hollow out the human soul. Considering key aspects of Lewis’s life and drawing from his prophetic work The Abolition of Man, this conference explores whether contemporary African education is forming wise and morally grounded citizens or merely producing skilled individuals without character.

The speakers will engage Lewis’s insights alongside African realities, so that together we consider how Christian education can recover a vision of forming whole persons - mind, heart, and character - for the flourishing of church and society in Africa.

Tea and snacks will be provided for those who attend in-person.

Date: Saturday, March 7, 2026
Time: 9:30 am - 1:00 pm EAT
Speakers: Aseka Taabu and Dr. Matthew Miller
Cost: Free
Location: African Bible University, Lubowa (Uganda) | Attend in-person or tune in online!


Additional Resource

Over the past 50 years, the C.S. Lewis Institute has developed many publications, discipleship resources, videos, and tools to help you grow in your faith. Because of your interest in this event, we believe you will be interested in the following:

The Abolition of Man

When C.S. Lewis gave his lectures which became the book The Abolition of Man, he sought to point to the logical inconsistencies and  dangers of a worldview that doesn’t hold to the idea of absolute truth. He did this in part by highlighting the natural law or moral law which is visible in all civilizations and written on the consciences of all human beings.

Learn more here

Jesus and the Ten Commandments

In this 10-session course, Jesus will be our guide through the ten commandments, and learn what it means to live fully and freely for God.

Learn more here

The Ufalme Experience

Ufalme is a Swahili word meaning kingdom. In this ten-session guided experience, you will explore the Lord's prayer that Jesus taught His disciples.

Learn more here


Aseka Taabu

Aseka Taabu is the City Director for CSLI Nairobi and an itinerant minister and speaker involved in apologetics and discipleship events in high schools, universities and churches across Kenya. His passion for the lost has seen him start discipleship groups aimed at equipping believers for works of service both in the church and corporate sphere.

Matthew Miller

Matthew Miller is the City Director of the C.S. Lewis Institute in Greenville, SC and also serves as the Senior Fellow for Applied Theology for the C. S. Lewis Institute. Matt studied Economics and Philosophy at Wake Forest University before earning his M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary (Charlotte) and his PhD in theology from the University of Bristol (England). He has previously served as a senior pastor, theological translator, and founder of a Christian classical school. Matt is passionate about helping believers of all backgrounds connect the whole of Scripture to Christ and Christ to all of life (or, in the words of Lewis, to “go further up and further in!”). Matt is the author of Bénédict Pictet’s Theology of Good Works: The Integration of High Orthodoxy and Practice in Turn-of-the-Eighteenth Century Geneva (forthcoming), co-editor of Generation to Generation: Essays in Honor of Douglas F. Kelly (2023), and translator of Pierre Courthial’s A New Day of Small Beginnings (2018). He and his wife have three children.

 

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