The result is a wide-ranging exploration of questions, some specific to the present science-faith conversation and some raised perennially by skeptics and curious seekers.Read more…
10/6: Veritas UTK Panel at Conference on Rhetoric and Religion
Professor Emeritus John Hardwig and InterVarsity Christian Fellowship / USA staff Julian Reese will discuss how an atheist and an evangelical Christian, through the Veritas Forum at UTK, forged a mutually productive rhetorical partnership in the context of a major public university. Read more…
Veritas Riff in Boston Tuesday July 11 (Highlighting Community)
Near Boston? Interested in Veritas Forum? Read on to find out what’s happening Tuesday night. Read more…
Upcoming Events: Veritas Forums with Josh Swamidass
Urbana 15 seminar speaker Josh Swamidass will be speaking at three Veritas Forum events this spring, and the first is coming up Monday, February 22. Read more…
Veritas Event Tuesday (Boston): Riff Speakers Lineup
Want to hear speakers like Andy Crouch, David Skeel, Charmaine Royal and Francis Su next week? Veritas Forum invites InterVarsity grad students and faculty to sit in on part of a pilot event for developing new content through Veritas Riff. Read more…
Book Review: College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be
College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco My rating: 4 of 5 stars Andrew Delbanco opens this book describing a faculty meeting early in his tenure at Columbia where the end of “needs blind” admissions was being debated. HeRead more…
The calling of Christian postgrad students and academics — Ard Louis
Ard Louis[1] The calling of Christian postgrad students and academics (1/29/2012) from oxfordchristianmind (52 min, 52 sec). Description: What does our calling to be disciples of Christ mean for our academic vocation (whether temporary as students or longer term as a career)?Read more…
Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure
Have you found yourself on an Advent-ure as we’ve considered Finding Calcutta? Do you find yourself longing for and waiting upon the coming of the Lord in your life, your neighborhood, your discipline, your campus, your nation, the creation?Read more…
An invitation to discuss “Finding Calcutta” by Mary Poplin
With our limited time, energy, finances, blog attention spans, why focus on Mary Poplin’s “Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service” (IVP. 2008)?Read more…
ESN: “An essential & growing movement”
In follow-up to The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar, below is a word from Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, regarding the value of the Emerging Scholars Network: The Emerging Scholars Network is an essential and growingRead more…
The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar
Over the course of the next several days, I have the privilege of working with Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, as she speaks for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at a number of locations: Pittsburgh, PA (2/25-26),Read more…
Week in Review: Challenges of Higher Education
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here’s a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you’d like us to consider for theRead more…
Is God Relevant in the Public Square?
A special thank-you to the Emerging Scholar from Johns Hopkins University who passed along notes from Is God Relevant in the Public Square? Living with our deepest differences in a world of exploding pluralism — Os Guinness (March 26, VeritasRead more…