We are in a war for truth, and media is the battleground. As ambassadors for Christ, we must become familiar with the ever-shifting terrain so that we can utilize it strategically as we engage the culture for the Glory of Christ. The Muse conference supports this effort by showcasing how wisdom and discernment can be used to evaluate the truth in media. Engaging, effective, and excellent media creation and production will also be explored as a pathway for influencing culture for Christ.

Conference Speakers and Topics include

• Dr. Abner Chou - "Does Media Matter?"
• Professor/Filmmaker Matt Green - "How Should a Believer Consume and Contribute to Media?"
• Dr. Bob Dickson - "Can Media Be Trusted?"
• Dr. Grant Horner - "Inception: Reality, Perception and Dreams"

Featuring Guest Panel* discussions hosted by Dr. Abner Chou

• Music & Media with guest panelists Jubilant Sykes & Grant Fonda
• Media & Culture with guest panelists Darrell Harrison, and John Sullivan

Join the Film Festival and submit your film to win a $5000 scholarship. See "Tickets" for how to enter. Cost for entry is $144 per film.

At the conference, be the first to preview the teaser of Tyndale, produced through TMU's Center for Thinking Biblically by Cinema & Digital Arts.

Conference cost(s) include lunch and refreshments.

*Guest Panelist biographies

TMU Alumnus Grant Fonda is a respected arranger, orchestrator, copyist, and conductor, and has contributed work to Oscar, Grammy, and Dove-nominated projects, including Titanic: Live, Walt Disney's World of Color, and Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies." He has worked for Oscar-nominated composers John Debney and James Horner, and his arranging work has recently landed at the top of Billboard charts. Grant is also an alumnus of USC's Screen Scoring program and the ASCAP Film Scoring Workshop, he is equally comfortable in front of an orchestra as he is working with rock bands and eclectic ensembles comprised of some of the world's most unusual instruments.

Darrell Harrison was born and raised in the public housing projects of west Atlanta, Georgia, Darrell currently serves as Dean of Social Media at Grace To You ministries. Darrell is a biblical counselor-in-training with the Association of Certified Biblical Counselors (ACBC) and lead host of the Just Thinking podcast. Darrell also is a Fellow of the Black Theology and Leadership Institute (BTLI) of Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey, a graduate of the Theology and Ministry program at Princeton Theological Seminary, the first African-American to be ordained a Deacon in the nearly 200-year history of First Baptist Church of Covington (Georgia), and an expository Bible teacher with a passion for helping Christians understand what they believe and why they believe it.

John Sullivan

Jubilant Sykes's unique gifts have taken him from such diverse stages as the Metropolitan Opera, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center and London’s Barbican Centre to the Apollo Theater, Hollywood Bowl, New Orleans Jazz Festival and hundreds of other major venues around the world.