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SUMMARY:Logos Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, February 2\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester.  \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending. \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-seminar-8-2/2026-03-02/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
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SUMMARY:Friend or Foe: The Goods (and Evils) of AI
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton Perspectives brings you: \nFriend or Foe: The Goods (and Evils) of AI\nA conversation with Rosalind Picard\, Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at the MIT Media Lab\nMarch 23\, 2026\n7:30 pm EST in person\n7:45pm EST via Zoom \nregister here \nNearly every day another article drops the headline: “Beware the dangers of AI!” The threats are manifold: the disintegration of human intellect and interpersonal skills; the replacement of human workers with humanoid bots; perhaps\, some suggest\, even the annihilation of the human race itself. These apocalyptic visions result in the reasonable call for caution and serious reflection on how AI shapes human flourishing. \nBut what if these dramatic threats are massively overstated? What if that future is far less likely than we fear? Could it be that\, in the fervor of it all\, we’ve forgotten some crucial things: that AI does not evolve on its own but has to be built\, and that human beings remain responsible for what they create? \nMight this doomsdaying be keeping us from exploring real benefits for real people: freeing them from menial and life-denying work\, improving care for those vulnerable to seizure\, and perhaps one day preventing most diseases? \nAnd\, what if the most harmful effects of AI are actually more hidden\, less acknowledged issues related to mental health\, addiction\, and loneliness? \nIn other words\, we need to think less about the visions of apocalyptic doomsayers and more about this human side of digital tech. \nJoin us as we welcome MIT Professor and AI researcher Roz Picard to Chesterton Perspectives. Recently interviewed by the BBC on these questions\, she brings insight not only as a scientist and engineer\, but also as an entrepreneur\, inventor\, and a Christian. Together\, we’ll think through the goods and evils of AI and how to navigate this explosive topic as people of faith. \n. \nRosalind Picard; Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at the MIT Media Lab\nRosalind Picard is Grover M. Hermann Professor in Health Sciences and Technology at the MIT Media Lab\, where she is founder and director of the Affective Computing Research Group\, Associate Academic Head\, and affiliated with the MIT Center for Neurobiological Engineering. She is the author of the book Affective Computing and co-author of hundreds of peer-reviewed science and engineering articles in artificial intelligence\, digital health\, affective computing\, and human-computer interaction. An inventor on over 100 worldwide and US patents\, she is co-founder and chief scientist of Empatica\, providing FDA-cleared digital biomarkers and medical quality data and devices for clinical trials and research studies\, and helping people with epilepsy and Parkinson’s. Picard is also co-founder of Affectiva\, now part of Smart Eye AB. She is a popular speaker with a TED talk of over 2 million views. Picard is a member of the National Academy of Engineering\, the National Academy of Inventors\, and a fellow of the IEEE\, ACM\, and AAAC. She received the 2022 International Lombardy Prize for Computer Science Research\, the 2025 Trotter Prize in Information\, Complexity and Inference\, and the 2026 IEEE Medal for Innovations in Healthcare Technology. \nregister here
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/friend-or-foe-the-goods-and-evils-of-ai/
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SUMMARY:Logos Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, February 2\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester.  \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending. \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-seminar-8-2/2026-04-06/
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SUMMARY:Theological Society: Ellen Davis
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton House’s Theological Society Presents: \nA Conversation with Ellen Davis\nApril 9th\, 2026 | 1:00pm \nEmail to join \nScripture and Soil: How the Bible’s Vision Inspires Care for the Land\nWith the digital world at our fingertips and within a collegiate environment shaped by ideas and abstractions\, the slow\, seasonal labor of those who work the land can seem like a relic of days gone by. And yet\, Scripture begins in a garden. \nThroughout Scripture–particularly in the Old Testament–we encounter a persistent theme: the relationship between God\, humans\, and the land. Care for the land is both communal and sacred\, central to what it means to be human. Perhaps then\, the work of the humble farmer is far more sacred than we have imagined\, those callused hands participating in humanity’s original vocation. \nOver the course of her distinguished career as an Old Testament scholar at Duke\, Ellen Davis has drawn profound connections between the Hebrew Bible and the worlds of agriculture\, land care\, and agrarian life. For over fifteen years\, she has employed biblical interpretation as a lens for understanding what she calls\, “the global crisis of agriculture.” While this lens does involve a careful reflection on the past\, she argues that it can also provide invaluable instruction on a more whole future. \nJoin us in welcoming Ellen Davis to Theological Society to discuss how this compelling agrarian framework can shape both the intellectual and practical life of faith. \nEllen Davis\, Amos Ragan Kearns Professor of Bible and Practical Theology\, Duke Divinity School\nEllen F. Davis is Amos Ragan Kearns Distinguished Professor of Bible and Practical Theology at Duke Divinity School. \nThe author of twelve books and many articles\, her research interests focus on how biblical interpretation bears on the life of faith communities and their response to urgent public issues\, particularly the ecological crisis and interfaith relations. Scripture\, Culture\, and Agriculture: An Agrarian Reading of the Bible (Cambridge University Press\, 2009)\, integrates biblical studies with a critique of industrial agriculture and food production. Biblical Prophecy: Perspectives for Christian Theology\, Discipleship and Ministry (Westminster John Knox\, 2014)\, explores the prophetic role and word across both Testaments of the Christian Bible. Her most recent books are Preaching the Luminous Word (Eerdmans\, 2016)\, a collection of her sermons and essays\, and Opening Israel’s Scriptures (Oxford\, 2019)\, a comprehensive theological reading of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. Light within Light: Psalms and the Arts of Insight\, co-written with Makoto Fujimura and Shai Held\, is forthcoming from Baylor University Press in 2026. \nA lay Episcopalian\, she has long been active as a theological consultant within the Anglican Communion. Her current work explores the arts as modes of scriptural interpretation. \n\nTHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY\nThis society seeks to gather Cornell faculty and graduate students to discuss major themes in biblical and theological studies. Discussion aims to satisfy what Simone Weil once described as the basic need of the soul to consider “every sort of opinion\, without the least restriction or reserve.” To this end\, we invite dialogue that explores and even challenges historic orthodox beliefs as well as those ideas that reign in the contemporary church\, academy\, and culture. \nOur dialogue is collegial and cordial without shying away from the hard questions scholars face in their life and work. Members of the group seek to nurture discussion by listening attentively to one another\, guarding the length of our responses\, and avoiding diversions to pet issues unrelated to the subject at hand. In short\, we seek to embody a uniquely Christian form of intellectual hospitality that we can pass on to future generations.
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/theological-society-ellen-davis/
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SUMMARY:Connection vs. Communion and the Liturgies That Shape Us
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton Perspectives brings you: \nConnection vs. Communion and the Liturgies That Shape Us\nA conversation with Felicia Wu Song\, Sociologist\, writer and speaker on social effects of digital technology. Former academic and professor who taught for over twenty years on university and liberal arts college campuses. \nApril 13\, 2026\n7:30 pm EST in person\n7:45pm EST via Zoom \nregister here \nMany of us begin and end our days the same way: checking texts\, scrolling emails\, moving seamlessly from one screen to the next. What may feel like a series of small\, neutral habits has quietly become a daily rhythm—one we repeat almost without thinking. \nBut how did this happen? While we may be the ones opening our apps\, our habits are also reflective of a broader culture. One that often requires near constant digital connectivity for school\, work\, and life. These rhythms are both personal and societal. And they are also shaping us more than we realize. \nOur “digital liturgies” inform our desires\, shape our thoughts\, and influence our understanding of what it means to be human. And what happens when these digital habits– intentionally designed to keep us coming back for more–begin to crowd out the sacred liturgies that were meant to frame our lives? The rhythms meant to ground us in goodness\, truth\, and beauty are pushed to the margins. A life meant to be lived in communion with God and one another is slowly replaced by the façade of connection\, and we find ourselves increasingly isolated. \nSociologist and author Felicia Wu Song has spent years studying how these digital structures shape our lives and exploring more meaningful alternatives. Through her “Freedom Project\,” she invites students into practices from the Christian tradition\, offering concrete ways to recover sacred habits and real communion with God and one another. \nJoin us for this Chesterton Perspectives event as we explore connection\, communion\, and the liturgies that shape us. \n. \nFelicia Wu Song; Sociologist\, writer and speaker on social effects of digital technology. Former academic and professor who taught for over twenty years on university and liberal arts college campuses.\nFelicia Wu Song \nis a cultural sociologist who studies the place of digital technologies in contemporary life. Having trained in History\, Communication Studies and Sociology from Yale\, Northwestern\, and University of Virginia\, her research is oriented around the rapidly evolving digital technology industry and how the adoption of social media and digital devices fundamentally alters the landscapes of family\, community\, and organizational life. \nShe is author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood\, Presence and Place in the Digital Age (InterVarsity Press Academic\, released November 2021) and Virtual Communities: Bowling Alone\, Online Together (Peter Lang 2009). Dr. Song’s prior research has included studies of expectant women’s online information-seeking habits and the evolution of “mommy bloggers” as social media professionals. \nShe regularly speaks on digital practices\, social media\, the digital media industry\, parenting in the digital age\, and spiritual formation at universities and colleges\, churches\, schools\, parent groups\, and conferences. Dr. Song’s expertise has been sought by a wide range of organizations including BioLogos\, The Vatican\, Intervarsity Christian Fellowship\, Trinity Forum\, Thinq Culture Summit\, National Association of Evangelicals\, Notre Dame University\, Fuller Theological Seminary\, Calvin University\, and Asian American Christian Collaborative. \nDr. Song lives in Portland Oregon with her husband and two teenaged children. When she is not working\, she enjoys trying new breakfast-baking recipes\, sewing and upcycling clothes\, doting over plants and gardening\, doing the NYTimes crossword puzzle\, and daydreams about becoming a bass player. \nregister here
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/connectionsvscommunionandtheliturgiesthatshapeus/
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SUMMARY:Logos Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, February 2\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester.  \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending. \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-seminar-8-2/2026-04-20/
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SUMMARY:The Word Became - Digital
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton Perspectives brings you: \nThe Word Became – Digital: The Disembodying Thrust of Modern Technology\nA conversation with Craig Gay\, Professor Craig M. Gay\, Regent College \nApril 27\, 2026\n7:30 pm EST in person\n7:45pm EST via Zoom \nregister here \nIn the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. He formed the human from the dust of the earth\, then commanded the human to engage in technological development so that humans could become free from their bodies\, from the constraints of space and time\, from the awkwardnesses of real encounters in the body\, and finally from death itself. \nOf course\, we immediately recognize this as a parody\, but how often do we live in our digitally-saturated world as if it were true? As if we were meant to live not as embodied human beings made to worship the God of creation\, incarnation\, and resurrection and to abide in incarnate relationship with others in community\, but as humans accepting a call from The Digital to advance into a transhumanist future which aims deliver us from our bodily limitations? \nUnlike early forms of technology\, like hammers and windmills and printing presses\, modern automatic machine technology is increasingly removing us from a vital and intimate connection with the Creator and the creation. It is affecting our cognition\, our skills\, our possibilities for employment\, and making us more lonely and disconnected from concrete communities of friends we can lean on. \nAll of this doesn’t come without real benefits. But at what cost? Is technological advance worth the cost of diminishing our ordinary embodied human existence? \nJoin us for a Chesterton Perspectives event with Craig Gay to explore these questions and to see how the Christian story about a God who creates\, incarnates himself\, and bodily resurrects the dead  invites us to rediscover the centrality of ordinary embodied human existence in the world. \n  \nProfessor Craig M. Gay\, Regent College\nCraig M. Gay lectures in the area of Christianity\, Society\, and Culture and is the Secretary of the College’s Anglican Studies Program. He is the author of With Liberty or Justice for Whom? (Eerdmans\, 1991); The Way of the (Modern) World (Eerdmans\, 1998); Cash Values: The Value of Money the Nature of Worth (Eerdmans\, 2004); Dialogue\, Catalogue and Monologue (Regent College Publishing\, 2008); and Modern Technology and the Human Future: A Christian Appraisal (IVP Academic\, 2018). He was also the co-editor (with C. Peter Molloy) of The Way of Truth in the Present Age (Regent College\, 1999). He has contributed chapters to a number of collections on the subjects of modernity\, secularization\, economic ethics\, and technology\, and his articles and reviews have appeared in Christian Scholar’s Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Crux\, and Markets & Morality. Craig is an ordained Deacon in the Anglican Church of North America. He and his wife\, Julie\, are active members of St. John’s Vancouver Anglican Church. They have four grown children. \nregister here
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/the-word-became-digital/
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SUMMARY:Theological Society: Jason Staples
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton House’s Theological Society Presents: \nA Conversation with Jason Staples\nA Newer Perspective on Paul: The identity of Israel in “All Israel will be saved” (Romans 11:26)\nApril 30th\, 2026 | 1:00pm \nEmail to join \nWhen the Apostle Paul wrote in Romans 11:25-26\, “For a hardening has happened on part of Israel\, until the fullness of the gentiles enters in\, and in this way all Israel will be saved\,” what did he mean? Specifically\, what did he mean by “all Israel”? \nThis is one of the most contentious questions in biblical and theological studies. And there is a new perspective that has emerged to answer it.In his much-discussed recent book\, Paul and the Resurrection of Israel\, Jason Staples has proposed that in Romans 11:25-26 Paul envisions the entry of the gentiles as necessary for the restoration of the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel\, which results in the salvation of “all Israel” (and not just in the salvation of the Southern Kingdom of Judah). This reading has significant consequences: it means that Paul thought the 10 tribes had become gentiles after breaking the covenant and needed to be ethnically transformed to become Israelites once again\, and that this restoration took place by incorporation into the Messiah. Gentiles who follow Messiah and receive the holy spirit\, in other words\, do not remain gentiles: they become Israelites (again) in order for all Israel to be saved. \nJoin the Theological Society at Cornell for a conversation with Jason Staples\, Assistant Teaching Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NC State University. \nJason Staples\nJason A. Staples (Ph.D.\, UNC-Chapel Hill) is an Assistant Teaching Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at NC State University\, where he teaches courses on the Bible\, early Judaism\, Christian origins\, ethics\, globalism\, conflict\, and various theoretical perspectives in the study of religion and society. \nHe is a sought-after speaker and gives lectures on a variety of subjects. To book him for an event\, please use the form here. \nHe is the author of Paul and the Resurrection of Israel: Jews\, Former Gentiles\, Israelites (Cambridge University Press\, 2024)\, which reviewers have called “enormously important and theologically productive\,” “an astonishing contribution\,” “the cutting edge of Pauline scholarship by a master of his trade\,” “arguably the most consequential contribution to Pauline studies since John Barclay’s Paul and the Gift [2017]\,” a book that “will undoubtedly stand at the center of Pauline discussions for years to come\,” and “potentially as ‘epoch-defining’ as Paul and Palestinian Judaism by E. P. Sanders in 1977.” \nHe is also the author of The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People\, Exile\, and Israelite Identity (Cambridge University Press\, 2021)\, which reviewers have called “a constructive\, cogent\, and compelling book\, the “best academic book I read this year\,” and concluded “should accomplish nothing less than a paradigm shift.” \nHis articles have been published in The Journal of Biblical Literature\, New Testament Studies\, Journal for the Study of the New Testament\, Harvard Theological Review\, Zeitschrift für die Neutestamentliche Wissenschaft\, the Journal of Religion and Film\, and more. He was a 2008 recipient of the U.S. Department of Education’s Jacob K. Javits Fellowship and is a member of the UNC Royster Society of Fellows. \nOutside the scholarly world\, Jason has also worked in sports media for over fifteen years\, providing analysis and digital content for a variety of outlets\, including The Wilson Times\, InsideCarolina.com (247Sports/CBS Sports)\, Scout.com\, Fox Sports\, and the Unconquered Podcast. \nAs a below-average football walk-on (=practice dummy) at Florida State from 2000–2002\, Jason had the opportunity to see what athletic greatness looks like up close\, learning from some of the best coaches and players in the game. He has since attempted to pass on some of that knowledge at the high school level\, serving as the passing game/WRs/Special Teams/Strength and Conditioning coach at Jordan High School (Durham\, NC) from 2017–2018\, QBs/Passing Game Coordinator at Southern Durham High School (Durham\, NC) in 2016\, and as a private QB/WR coach in association with Carolina Elite football. \nIn addition to writing\, teaching\, and coaching\, Jason is a voice actor/artist\, with over a decade of experience including ad reads\, audiobook narration\, and more. He also provides services as a contract/freelance copyeditor. \nJason is a member of the the American Academy of Religion\, Society of Biblical Literature\, Society for Classical Studies\, Association for Jewish Studies\, Catholic Biblical Association of America\, and Football Writers’ Association of America and a former CrossFit Level 1 Trainer. \nHis full Curriculum Vitae can be found here. \n\nTHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY\nThis society seeks to gather Cornell faculty and graduate students to discuss major themes in biblical and theological studies. Discussion aims to satisfy what Simone Weil once described as the basic need of the soul to consider “every sort of opinion\, without the least restriction or reserve.” To this end\, we invite dialogue that explores and even challenges historic orthodox beliefs as well as those ideas that reign in the contemporary church\, academy\, and culture. \nOur dialogue is collegial and cordial without shying away from the hard questions scholars face in their life and work. Members of the group seek to nurture discussion by listening attentively to one another\, guarding the length of our responses\, and avoiding diversions to pet issues unrelated to the subject at hand. In short\, we seek to embody a uniquely Christian form of intellectual hospitality that we can pass on to future generations.
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/theological-society-jason-staples/
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SUMMARY:Logos Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, February 2\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester.  \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending. \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-seminar-8-2/2026-05-04/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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SUMMARY:Logos 1100: Christian Tradition & its Critics
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, September 14th\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester. \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending.\n \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-1100-christian-tradition-its-critics/2026-09-14/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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SUMMARY:Logos 1100: Christian Tradition & its Critics
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, September 14th\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester. \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending.\n \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-1100-christian-tradition-its-critics/2026-09-28/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261005T183000
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SUMMARY:Logos 1100: Christian Tradition & its Critics
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, September 14th\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester. \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending.\n \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-1100-christian-tradition-its-critics/2026-10-05/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T203000
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SUMMARY:Patrick Deneen & John Owen
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton Perspectives presents: \nChristianity and the Crisis of Liberalism\nMonday\, October 19th\, 2026\nStatler 198\n6pm\ndinner reception to follow \nregister here \nThere is something about the soul that longs for freedom and an inviolable dignity that’s protected from such controls as arbitrary rule and government overreach. We recognize this impulse especially in our American founding and culture and often label it “liberalism.” An imperfect construct\, but certainly a net good…right? \nPatrick Deneen would argue no. Historically\, freedom was understood to require discipline and self-limitation of our desires as well as social and political institutions that encouraged such virtues. Deneen argues that modern liberalism rejected this understanding in favor of a freedom centered on individual choice and liberation from outside constraints. Ironically\, this unconstrained “freedom” ultimately requires greater government oversight in an attempt to manage the unrestrained behavior of its citizens. The result\, he claims\, is both moral and material depletion. \nIn summary\, liberalism is failing because of itself\, not in spite of itself\, and Deneen believes we must look beyond it. \nBefore throwing liberalism out the window\, however\, respondent John Owen cautions that the constitutional democracy associated with liberalism is still our best late-modern political option. Additionally\, he believes there is an alternative form of liberalism to be retrieved\, one grounded in the historic Christian tradition and more supportive of virtue\, institutions\, religious practice\, and individual conscience than the modern take that Deneen critiques. \nJoin us for an evening of lively conversation with Patrick Deneen and John Owen as they consider the weaknesses of modern liberalism and the role of the historic Christian tradition as we evaluate whether to retrieve what was lost or retire what has run its course. \nPatrick Deneen; Professor of Political Science\, University of Notre Dame \nPatrick J. Deneen holds a B.A. in English literature and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Rutgers University. From 1995-1997 he was Speechwriter and Special Advisor to the Director of the United States Information Agency. From 1997-2005 he was Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton University. From 2005-2012 he was Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Associate Professor of Government at Georgetown University\, before joining the faculty of Notre Dame in Fall 2012. He is the author and editor of several books and numerous articles and reviews and has delivered invited lectures around the world. \nDeneen was awarded the APSA’s Leo Strauss Award for Best Dissertation in Political Theory in 1995\, and an honorable mention for the APSA’s Best First Book Award in 2000. He has been awarded research fellowships from Princeton University\, Earhart Foundation\, and the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Virginia. \nHis teaching and writing interests focus on the history of political thought\, American political thought\, liberalism\, conservatism\, and constitutionalism. \nHis widely-discussed 2018 book\, Why Liberalism Failed\, has been translated into over twenty languages and was praised by former President Barack Obama. \nJohn M. Owen; Taylor University Professor of Politics and Senior Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture\, University of Virginia \nJohn M. Owen (A.B.\, Duke; M.P.A.\, Princeton; A.M.\, Ph.D.\, Harvard) is Taylor Professor of Politics\, and a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture\, at the University of Virginia. He is author of The Ecology of Nations (Yale\, 2023)\, winner of the 2025 Grawemeyer Award in World Order\, and of Confronting Political Islam (Princeton\, 2015)\, The Clash of Ideas in World Politics (Princeton\, 2010)\, and Liberal Peace\, Liberal War (Cornell\, 1997) and co-editor of Religion\, the Enlightenment\, and the New Global Order (Columbia\, 2011). Owen has published numerous academic articles\, as well as essays in First Things\, Providence\, Christian Scholars’ Review\, Foreign Affairs\, The Hedgehog Review\, The Washington Post\, and The New York Times. He has held fellowships at Harvard\, Stanford\, Princeton\, Oxford\, the Free University and WZB (Berlin)\, and the University of British Columbia. In 2015 he received a Humboldt Research Prize (Germany). He has served on the boards of the Consortium of Christian Study Centers and the Center for Christian Study in Charlottesville. He and his wife Patricia attend Holy Cross Anglican Church in Crozet\, Virginia. They have three adult children. \nregister here \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/patrick-deneen-john-owen-2026/
LOCATION:Statler 198
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261019T203000
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SUMMARY:Logos 1100: Christian Tradition & its Critics
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, September 14th\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester. \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending.\n \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-1100-christian-tradition-its-critics/2026-10-19/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261022T210000
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SUMMARY:Jennifer A. Frey
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton House & COLLIS Institute present: \nWhy Are We Here? On the Proper Ends of an Undergraduate Education\nThursday\, October 22nd\, 2026\n5:00pm EST\nPhysical Sciences Building 120 or via Zoom\nDinner reception to follow \nregister here \nIs the purpose of a university education to get a degree? To get a good job? To have a transformative social experience? \nWhile these are\, naturally\, valuable components of a university education\, Jennifer Frey argues that the primary goal of college is the cultivation of a student’s humanity–their mind\, character\, and inner freedom. The college years should be a time when students are transformed through their personal search for truth. Other outcomes may naturally follow\, but they are external to the central goal of personal formation. For the Christian\, this personal formation means having our lives\, virtues\, and intellectual pursuits properly oriented toward God. \nBut what happens when the technological tools universities embrace and teach begin to undermine the formation of those very virtues? Frey argues that artificial intelligence threatens our humanity along several dimensions. If the primary purpose of university life is to cultivate our humanity\, then universities should be cautious about when and how AI belongs in the educational experience. Perhaps more cautious than they are currently being. \nJoin us for an evening with Jennifer Frey\, in conversation with Dean Peter Loewen (Cornell College of Arts and Sciences) as we explore what a university education is actually for\, how AI might contribute to (or threaten) this purpose\, and what the Christian intellectual tradition has to say about the proper ends of education. \nJennifer A. Frey; Director\, Classical Liberal Arts\, Visiting Professor\, College of Arts and Sciences\, Fellow\, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture\, University of Virginia\, Watson Manor \nJennifer A. Frey is Director of Programs in Classical Liberal Arts at the University of Virginia\, where she is also a Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture and Visiting Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences. She came to Virginia from the University of Tulsa\, where she served as the inaugural Dean of the Honors College\, whose curriculum centered on the great books of Western civilization. Before Tulsa she was Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Carolina\, where she also held the title of Peter and Bonnie McCausland Faculty Fellow in the College of Arts and Sciences. \nJennifer earned her Ph.D. in philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh and her B.A. in philosophy and medieval studies\, with a minor in classics\, at Indiana University Bloomington. She has published widely on virtue and moral psychology and has edited three academic volumes on virtue and human action Self-Transcendence and Virtue: Perspectives from Philosophy\, Psychology\, and Theology; Practical Truth; and a forthcoming volume\, Practical Wisdom. She is currently writing a book on the liberal arts and freedom. Her non-academic writing has appeared in First Things\, Image\, Law and Liberty\, The Chronicle of Higher Education\, The New York Times\, The Point\, USA Today\, and The Wall Street Journal\, among other venues. She hosts the philosophy\, theology\, and literature podcast Sacred and Profane Love. \n  \nPeter John Loewen\, Harold Tanner Dean of the College of Arts & Sciences\n \nPeter is a professor of government and the Dean of Cornell’s largest college. His research examines how citizens can make better choices\, politicians can make better decisions\, and how we can harness technological change to improve democracy and the economy. He has published in leading journals in political science and general science\, and several other fields.  \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/jennifer-frey/
LOCATION:120 Physical Sciences Building
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261026T183000
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SUMMARY:Logos 1100: Christian Tradition & its Critics
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, September 14th\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester. \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending.\n \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-1100-christian-tradition-its-critics/2026-10-26/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261102T203000
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SUMMARY:Logos 1100: Christian Tradition & its Critics
DESCRIPTION:Join us on a guided journey in our award-winning Logos Seminar (which earned Chesterton House an Oases of Excellence designation from the American Council of Trustees and Alumni). The Logos Seminar takes a small cohort of students through the classical Christian tradition and its critics\, allowing them to hear from world-class Christian scholars and providing the opportunity to approach various viewpoints from a charitable\, challenging\, and curious perspective in a hospitable setting. \nIt offers students a rare chance to deliberate together on some of the most contested topics—topics that\, when brought up on campus\, often find themselves in a skeptical or even hostile environment. \nCo-taught by Biblical scholar Dr. Jimmy Myers and philosopher Dr. Vivek Mathew\, sessions will be a mix of foundational study of classical Christian (and anti-Christian) texts\, fundamental issues in Biblical studies and hermeneutics\, and an introduction to a wide variety of Christian (and non-Christian) perspectives on challenging contemporary topics. \nBeginning again on Monday\, September 14th\, our meetings will be selected Monday evenings from 6:30pm–8:30pm at 111 The Knoll during the semester. \nDinner will be provided! \n*Please note that this is a closed course and acceptance is required before attending.\n \napply today \nmore information \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/logos-1100-christian-tradition-its-critics/2026-11-02/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261112T130000
DTSTAMP:20260915T155042Z
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SUMMARY:Theological Society: Dean Sujin Pak
DESCRIPTION:Guest Scholar: \nA Conversation with Dean Sujin Pak\nDean Sujin Pak\, Professor of the History of Christianity\, Boston University School of Theology\nDr. G. Sujin Pak is Dean of the Boston University School of Theology and Professor of the History of Christianity. Her scholarship and teaching focus on the early modern period\, the Protestant Reformation\, and the history of biblical interpretation. Pak is the author of The Judaizing Calvin: Sixteenth-Century Debates on the Messianic Psalms (Oxford University Press\, 2010) and The Reformation of Prophecy: Early Modern Interpretations of the Prophet and Old Testament Prophecy (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, as well as several articles appearing in journals such as Church History\, Renaissance & Reformation Review\, Religions\, and Calvin Theological Journal. As a teacher\, Pak encourages her students to engage a variety of perspectives with attention to their social contexts. Pak serves as secretary of the ATS Board of Directors\, president of AUMTS and Wesley Works\, vice president of the Calvin Studies Society executive board\, Reformation Area Editor for the Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception\, and member of the University Senate of the UMC. \n\nTHEOLOGICAL SOCIETY\nThis society seeks to gather Cornell faculty and graduate students to discuss major themes in biblical and theological studies. Discussion aims to satisfy what Simone Weil once described as the basic need of the soul to consider “every sort of opinion\, without the least restriction or reserve.” To this end\, we invite dialogue that explores and even challenges historic orthodox beliefs as well as those ideas that reign in the contemporary church\, academy\, and culture. \nOur dialogue is collegial and cordial without shying away from the hard questions scholars face in their life and work. Members of the group seek to nurture discussion by listening attentively to one another\, guarding the length of our responses\, and avoiding diversions to pet issues unrelated to the subject at hand. In short\, we seek to embody a uniquely Christian form of intellectual hospitality that we can pass on to future generations. \n  \nEmail to join
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/theological-society-dean-sujin-pak/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261116T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261116T210000
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SUMMARY:Elizabeth Bruenig
DESCRIPTION:Chesterton Perspectives presents: \nA Conversation with Elizabeth Bruenig\nMonday\, Novemeber 16th\, 2026\n7:30pm EST at 111 The Knoll Rd\n7:45 pm EST via Zoom \nregistration to come! \nMore information coming soon… \nElizabeth Bruenig; Staff Writer at The Atlantic \n  \n 
URL:https://chestertonhouse.org/events/elizabeth-bruenig-2026/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
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