March 2025
San Jose State University
13th: Open-to-the-whole-campus event
At San Jose State U. March 13th, 2025.
"Thank you for your fascinating and mind-expanding talk yesterday! I really appreciated how you unpacked a powerful argument for the existence of God in ways that university students (even professors :) could (mostly) understand."
Burford J. Furman, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, San Jose State University
To read more about this SJSU event see this newsletter:
May 2025
Orange Coast College
14th: Guest lecturer in Professor Monge's philosophy course
At Orange Coast College May 14th, 2025.
The student pictured in the top photo above was very interested in my arguments and stayed after class to ask me several questions about them which he had written on a list. To read more about his and another student's (the one in the bottom picture above) interaction with me, as well as the atheist philosophy professor's response to my lecture, see this newsletter:
September 2025
Saddleback College
30th: Guest lecturer in Professor Monge's philosophy course
At Saddleback College September 30th, 2025.
The top photo above shows a student in the front row named Carson (his hair is blocking your view of my shoes) who Professor Monge addressed immediately after class saying:
"You're an atheist, right?" to which Carson responded
"I was. But he convinced me [that God exists]".
The other three photos are of my after-class dialogue with a student named Kaylie who was very eager to interact with me on the role—or lack thereof—of science in stage two of my overall argument. For more on this event, see this newsletter:
October 2025
Penn State University
22nd: Part 1 of the Open-to-the-whole-campus event
At Penn State U. October 22nd, 2025.
In the top photo above I'm just getting started teaching the first stage of my overall argument for God's existence to a very lively and engaging group of students on the first night of my two-night event at Penn State. At several points in the evening, there were spontaneous, organic interactions between me and the entire group, especially when I deduced certain conclusions that blew their minds causing a collective "mmm" sound from the group. I gave students the opportunity to come on stage to interact with me (the two smaller photos above) after the first stage and then again after the second stage, and there were many students after each stage who came to dialogue with me. The result was that we went for two hours and forty-five minutes and finally ended at 11:15 p.m. For more on this event, see this newsletter:
October 2025
Penn State University
23rd: Part 2 of the Open-to-the-whole-campus event
At Penn State U. October 23rd, 2025.
The second night at Penn State we also had a good crowd of students, as you can see in both the top and bottom photos above, although neither of them capture many students who were off to the right in the back and some who were on the left. In both of the smaller photos above, you can see multiple students lined up to ask me questions about the very engaging teaching session I had with them on the modal version of a particular argument for God's existence. It was a session in which I had the audience intentionally, as a group, audibly answering questions that I was setting them up to answer as I taught them the basics of modal logic which they needed to understand to understand the argument. It was a very fun pedagogical method and most of them did indeed learn what they need to to feel the force of the argument. For more on this event, see this newsletter:
November 2025
Arizona State University
18th: Open-to-the-whole-campus event
At Arizona State U. November 18th, 2025.
The student on the far right in the above photo named Joe was super engaged with me, in a very good way, throughout my slightly-over-two-hour lecture and dialogue with the audience at ASU. He stayed after to ask me some questions, and he found some of my answers quite surprising, since I sometimes part ways with the majority of Christian philosophers on some issues. In particular, after he heard an aspect of my view regarding free will, he said "I've never heard of that. Hmm. You really do have intellectual integrity". And that sort of reaction led to us conversing on the phone twice now since I returned to Orange County from ASU. For more on this event, see this newsletter:
January 2026
University of California, Irvine
13th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 1
At the University of California, Irvine January 13th 2026 (Technically, this is a duplicate of a photo from week 4. I didn't know anyone in the group on the first week to ask to take a photo.)
After my first session with the UC, Irvine faculty group, I received the below email from UC, Irvine mathematics professor Manuel Reyes in which he was inviting faculty members to our second session.
"Hello Everyone,
We had a great first session last week with Tom Frost! For those who are available, our next meeting will be at the usual place and time."
For more on this event, see this newsletter:
January 2026
University of California, Irvine
20th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 2
At the University of California, Irvine January 20th, 2026
After our second session I received the below personal email from UC, Irvine mathematics professor Manuel Reyes.
"Hi Tom,
Thanks for another very interesting session today! I wanted to thank you for going out of your way to discuss the classical arguments for the existence of God. I have always found them quite unsatisfying, so it's encouraging to hear that I'm not alone!"
For more on this event, see this newsletter:
January 2026
University of California, Irvine
27th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 3
At the University of California, Irvine January 27th, 2026
The below statement was in another email from UC, Irvine mathematics professor Manual Reyes as he was inviting fellow faculty members to come to our fourth session.
"I hope that you are all enjoying a smooth quarter, even as we approach the midway point. Those of us who have been able to gather for the past few weeks have been enjoying our dynamic discussion with Tom Frost. They have been so fruitful, in fact, that we have planned to extend them for another two weeks! Thus we will continue the discussion through tomorrow, February 3, and the following week, February 10."
For more on this event, see this newsletter:
February 2026
University of California, Irvine
3rd: Christian Faculty Group, Session 4
At the University of California, Irvine February 3rd, 2026
This is what professor Manuel Reyes said in his email advertising the upcoming fifth and final session.
"Hi Folks,
Tomorrow we will wrap up our series of discussions with Tom Frost. I hope many of you can join us for what I am sure will be an exciting conclusion! :)"
For more on this event, see this newsletter:
February 2026
University of California, Irvine
10th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 5
At the University of California, Irvine February 10th, 2026
The fifth and final session was indeed climactic, as I did what I could to pull the entire series together. The peak of the session was toward the very end of it when the political science professor in the group, Dave, in the green plaid shirt, asked a question about a particular aspect of virtue that triggered in me a way that I could implement that aspect of virtue into my argument to make it even stronger. That was exciting. For more on this event, see this newsletter:
February, March, April, May 2026 and Beyond
Via Zoom
Ongoing Philosophical Bible Study in California, Texas, and China
Michael and Jialin in Texas, myself in Orange County, CA, and Jialin's mother, Sarah, in northern China, during one of our recent philosophical Bible studies via Zoom.
The above screenshot photo is of an ongoing philosophically oriented Bible study that I am leading with Jialin, the woman in the upper left who I led to Christ a few years ago shortly after she had graduated from UC, Irvine, her husband of less than one year, Michael, and Jialin's mother, Sarah, whom Jialin herself lead to Christ shortly after I led her to Christ. About three years ago, Jialin moved from CA to Texas and a few months after her marriage she asked me if I would lead her and Michael and her mother in a Zoom study. So, I agreed to do that on the first and third Thursdays of each month from 7-9:30ish p.m. my time. Jialin's mother, Sarah, joins us from northern China. We go quite slowly since I discuss all of the interesting philosophical issues that come up along the way, with the result that we have only covered John 1:1-10 in several sessions. But I believe that going deeper creates much more growth and stability than going faster. For more on this event, see this newsletter:
August 2026
University of Wisconsin - Madison
TBD: Open-to-all-FACULTY event
September - December (TBD) 2026
San Jose State University
Colloquium: Lecture with Q&A with the SJSU philosophy department faculty and graduate students
November 2026
Boise State University
12th: Open-to-the-whole-campus event
January 2027
University of California, Irvine
12th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 1
19th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 2
26th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 3
February 2027
University of California, Irvine
2nd: Christian Faculty Group, Session 4
9th: Christian Faculty Group, Session 5
October 2027
Penn State University
TBD: Open-to-the-whole-campus event
(To be confirmed in January of 2027)
More opportunities are always in process. If you are interested in the possibility of Tom teaching at some event you are aware of, contact him directly at