<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/pre-go-live-resources/_migration/2026-07-21/westmont-news/willard-center-gives-book-research-awards.html" dsn="news"><pubDate>02/24/2021</pubDate><title>Willard Center Gives Book, Research Awards</title><excerpt>Westmont’s Dallas Willard Center for Spiritual Formation will give its 2020 Book Award to Angela Carpenter, assistant professor of religion at Hope College in Michigan, on Wednesday, March 10, at 3:30 p.m. via Zoom at westmont.edu/lectures. Carpenter will lecture about “Dependent Creatures: How Human Evolution Can Help Us Understand God’s Grace” followed by questions from Mark Nelson, Westmont’s Monroe professor of philosophy and director of the Dallas Willard Research Center.</excerpt><author>Westmont</author><image>
            
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        </image><caption>Dr. Angela Carpenter (by Steven M. Herppich)</caption><description>1 Column Content Background Color White Heading...</description></item>