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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/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
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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
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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/
LOCATION:Chesterton House – 111 The Knoll
CATEGORIES:Course
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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
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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
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