Attention to various senses and types of musical harmony can do much to illuminate and clarify different conceptions of peace and peace-building already in use, as well as generate fresh and perhaps neglected ways of conceiving them and practicing peacemaking in the future.
Livestream Jeremy Begbie Lecture Why do the arts matter so much to people of religious faith? It is often assumed that the arts are mainly concerned with pulling us out of this world of space and time into some completely different, supposedly superior world, and that this is why they are so appealing to people […]
The Garden. The Garden of Gethsemane. Where Jesus was betrayed. Where he wept, abandoned and alone. Where he agonized in prayer through blood, sweat, and tears. Ruth Naomi Floyd will take us to the Garden to be with Jesus. With images, spoken word, and the rhythms and harmonies of gospel, blues, and jazz, she will […]
Taught by Chesterton House Senior Scholar, Dr. Ryan O'Dowd: This course is founded on the assumption that people who lived almost three millennia ago are enough like us that their wisdom writings have value for us today. We seek, therefore, not only to understand their writings but to find modern relevance for their ideas about […]
Speaker: Liz West International Justice Mission's Senior Program Manager of Justice Operations.
Taught by Chesterton House Senior Scholar, Dr. Ryan O'Dowd: This course is founded on the assumption that people who lived almost three millennia ago are enough like us that their wisdom writings have value for us today. We seek, therefore, not only to understand their writings but to find modern relevance for their ideas about […]
LIVESTREAM LINK HERE! In the short decade and a half since scientists decoded the first human genome, there has been an explosion of biotechnological discoveries that may fundamentally change how we think about biology, humanity, and even life itself. We are seeing the beginning of synthetic biology, where one day, printing life may be […]
This year's Veritas Forum will feature Dr. Andra Gillespie of Emory University. Gillespie, who has degrees from UVA and Yale, is an expert on African American Politics, particularly the politics of the post-Civil Rights generation of leadership.
