John Jackman – Speaker

John Jackman is a speaker, pastor, philosopher, and award-winning filmmaker who lives at the intersection of faith, science, ethics, and history. He brings four decades of pastoral insight together with a scholar’s wide-ranging curiosity about how the mind works and how belief shapes behavior. Drawing from neuroscience, faith history, and cultural observation, John challenges audiences to rethink certainty, understand their cognitive blind spots, and rediscover intellectual humility as a path to deeper wisdom. A former instructor for the American Film Institute and lecturer at the Library of Congress, he combines visual storytelling, humor, and provocative insight in a style that is accessible, energetic, and thought-stirring. Whether addressing churches, universities, or mixed audiences, John leaves listeners intellectually challenged, inspired to embrace doubt as courageous searching, and newly awakened to the mystery that lies beneath what we think we know.