Join us for a virtual Veritas Forum with Dr. Willie James Jennings on a theology of race. Global and Public Health Sciences student, Kimberly St. Fleur '21, will moderate the time and facilitate a live audience Q&A to follow. "Willie Jennings’ book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race(link is external) (Yale 2010) won […]
The Rev. Dr. Jennifer Powell McNutt is Franklin S. Dyrness Associate Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies at Wheaton College. She is also a Fellow in the Royal Historical Society and a Teaching Elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A). Dr. McNutt holds a Ph.D. in History (University of St. Andrews, 2008), M.Div. (Princeton Theological Seminary, […]
This talk hosted by the Thomistic Institute at Cornell will explore Aristotle's ideas about friendship and how Thomas Aquinas engaged with those ideas in a Christian context. The goal is to encourage our audience to think more intentionally about the nature of friendship and how they can go about forming and sustaining strong friendships. The […]
Few people have influenced the day-to-day management of people and companies more than Ken Blanchard. A prominent, sought-after author, speaker, and business consultant, Dr. Blanchard is respected for his lifetime of groundbreaking research and thought leadership that has influenced the day-to-day management and leadership of people and companies throughout the world. With a passion to turn […]
Beauty inspires. It inspires humans to great feats of imagination and discovery. But can beauty help us find the truth about the world? About ourselves? Might beauty contribute to the advance of sciences or reveal the presence of God? An Oxford Physicist and a Virginia Tech philosopher debate the relationship between aesthetics, science, and human […]
Join us for a very special conversation between the director of the Wu Tsai Neuroscience Institute at Stanford University, Dr. William Newsome, and the director of the Cornell Center for Vertebrate Genomics. Dr. Praveen Sethupathy, as we think through the integration of faith with cutting-edge work in neuroscience and genomics. REGISTER NOW Praveen Sethupathy is […]
We come to the academy to be shaped into critical thinkers, independent minds, but we are often unaware of the spiritual and racial formation these models of the “educated man” carry. In his recent book, After Whiteness, theologian Willie Jennings untangles our pedagogies which are tied to the image of the white slave-master, drawing from […]
Religious communities are sometimes deeply divided about the role of science and scientists in society. On the one hand, some Christian (and particularly white evangelical) churches are perceived as not taking COVID and climate change seriously, which manifests as vaccine resistance and disinterest in conservation efforts. This can lead to tragic death and inaction in […]
Veritas Forum brings you: Moral Outrage Who Are We to Say? A conversation on where morals come from, why they differ, and what to do about it. April 16th, 2025 7:00pm to 8:30pm ET Klarman Hall KG70 or remotely via Zoom Reception with Purity Ice Cream to follow! Register Here Two of the most common […]
