ABOUT COLLOQUIA
Law - Literature - Life
Law
Colloquia founder and teacher Mike Schutt is an attorney by training, who has served on law faculties of Christian law schools since 1993. For almost two decades, he was the director of the Institute for Christian Legal Studies with the Christian Legal Society. He was Editor in Chief of the Journal of Christian Legal Thought and director of Law Student Ministries for CLS.
Mike has spoken to thousands of students and lawyers on the relationship of law, culture, and faith and on the necessity of a vision of vocation for one's faithful work in the world. He is the author of Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession. Mike leads retreats for lawyers and law students and has continued with Christian Legal Society as the founding director of the Christian Legal Society Law School Fellows program, a week-long training program in vocational stewardship, Christian Jurisprudence, and moral formation.
More information on law-related events and retreats is available here.
Literature
Colloquia offers full-year online literature courses in Ancient, Medieval, and Modern literature, online Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Animal Farm Short Courses, and an in-person Era-based Literature course in East Texas.
Browse the Literature page for more information.
Life
Colloquia has developed small group resources for book studies, including outlines and leaders' guides. Leaders may choose from more than a dozen books with outlines, leader's guides, and discussion questions to enhance small group participation.
In the near future, Colloquia will offer literary and worldview retreats available for adults, providing opportunities for engagement over the big ideas in the essays of C.S. Lewis or G.K. Chesterton, the short stories of Flannery O'Connor or Wendell Berry, or the novels of Austen or Fitzgerald.
About Mike Schutt
Mike Schutt is the director of the Institute for Christian Legal Studies, a cooperative ministry of Regent Law School and the Christian Legal Society. He is also the director of the Christian Legal Society’s Law Student Ministries, and he has emceed the CLS National Conference for the past 16 years. He taught on campus at Regent from 1993-2001 and currently has the rank of associate professor. He teaches Foundations of Legal Thought online in the Regent MA (Law) program. Mike also serves as the national coordinator for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s Grad & Faculty Ministries’ Law School Ministry. He is on the Worldview Academy faculty as well, traveling each summer to teach high school students about law, vocation, leisure, and epistemology. He has taught a high school era-based literature course since 2003. It is one of the great joys of his life.
Mike serves as editor-in-chief of the Journal of Christian Legal Thought and host of the Cross & Gavel podcast. In 2007, InterVarsity Press published his book Redeeming Law: Christian Calling and the Legal Profession . He has written articles and smaller pieces for several publications. Before entering academia, he practiced law in Fort Worth, Texas. He is an honors graduate of the University of Texas School of Law and studied English and Political Science at Stephen F. Austin State University. He minored in German, but he sprechens zero Deutsch.
Mike understands his calling to be to equip the saints to think well about the world around them and to engage the world through their work and their play.
Mike lives in Mount Pleasant, Texas, with his wife Lisa. They have been married for 34 years and have three grown children and four grandchildren. They homeschooled their children Kindergarten through 12th grade, and Lisa founded a homeschool co-op and served as its director for thirteen years. She now serves the co-op as executive director and the high school curriculum coordinator. Lisa has her degree in education from Stephen F. Austin State University. Lisa will be handling the administrative side of the Colloquia classes and retreats.