Jordan - Acts 17

While I agree with Kelly that Faith can't be argued, it needs to be lived out, I also sort of envy the philosophical arenas of the Greeks.  A lot can happen when people get together and openly debate scripture and religious views with the desire to learn.  

One of my best memories of Lutheran Campus Ministry at Northeastern was a retreat held with the Northeast Lutheran Student Movement.  We had what was called a quodlibet moderated by Rick Summy of the seminary at Philadelphia.  Students offered questions about the Bible, faith and theology to Rick for over an hour.  The questions were categorized and after a few hours, Rick presented his thoughts on each of the questions and we all talked about our own feelings on the matter.  We were not on a quest for black and white answers, we were on a quest for knowledge and we all came out appreciating the healthy debate.

I don't see that sort of debate happening in the daily life of the church.  There are Bible studies and there are blogs, but there aren't public debates (outside of ELCA plenary sessions, which I don't find an arena for learning, more for soap boxing).  What would something like that look like?  Are people invested in their beliefs enough to debate them?