1981 - Walter Klaassen - “University: The Temple of Intellect Past and Present”
1982 - Rod Sawatsky - Commitment and Critique: A Dialectical Imperative”
1983 - Cal Redekop - “Promise of Work”
1984 - Len Enns - “Music: Intellect and Emotion”
1985 - Conrad Brunk - “Professionalism and Responsibility in the Technological Society”
1986 - John Miller - “Envisioning the World’s Future: Neglected Prophetic Insights”
1987 - Wilbur Maust - “Benjamin Britten’s Music of Conscience and Compassion”
1988 - John Rempel - “ Christian Worship: Surely the Lord is in this Place”
1989 - Helen Martens - “Mendelssohn’s Faith and Works: The Spiritual Odyssey of a Composer”
1990 - Werner Packull - “Between Paradigms: Anabaptist Studies at the Crossroads”
1991 - Jim Reimer - “Christian Theology and the University: Methodological Issues Reconsidered”
1992 - Arnold Snyder - “An Anabaptist Vision for Peace: Spirituality and Peace in Pilgrim Marpeck”
1993 - Tom Yoder Neufeld - “‘Bound by Peace’ (Ephesians 4:3): The Reconciliation of Divergent Traditions in Ephesians”
1994 - Carol Ann Weaver - “Kenyan Women in Music”
1995 - Ron Mathies - “Service as (Trans)formation: The Mennonite Central Committee as Educational Institution”
2001 - Ken Hull - “Text, Music and Meaning in Congregational Song”
2003 - John Toews - “Toward a Biblical Theology of Leadership Affirmation: Rethinking Ordination”
2005 - Hildi Froese Tiessen "A Mennonite Novelist's Journey (from) Home: Ephraim Weber's encounters with S.F. Coffman and L.M. Montgomery"
2006 - Lowell Ewert "Law as a Sword, Law as a Shield"
2007 - A. James Reimer -"Christian Theology Today: What is at Stake?"
2008 - Marlene Epp "Midwife Healers: The Women who made things right"
2009 - Laura Gray "The Idea of North: Sibelius, Gould and Symbolic Landscapes"
2010 - Nathan Funk - "Peace Starts Now: Religious Contributions to Sustainable Peacemaking"