There the Calvin Lecturer will deliver one public lecture with broad appeal, meet with smaller groups of students and faculty and lead a seminar for Campus Ministry staff. Each Interim the Calvin Lecturer will speak at L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland and at various European universities in cooperation with the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students. It is intended that the lecture will have an evangelistic effect on university campuses by demonstrating the power and vitality of a Christian worldview. Hare worked for two years in the early 1980s in Washington, D.C. on the House of Representatives' Foreign Affairs Committee. As a staff member one of his roles was to think and write about the moral and ethical components of international relations.
Hare admits the D.C. experience was a heady one.
I could have stayed - I almost did stay. I felt a very immediate impact to my work there. Impacting public policy was exciting. But I also was drawn back to the theoretical life - the world of scholarship and teaching. I guess I continue to live with a tension between the theoretical life and the practical life.