Events

Join us for a Homecoming BBQ! Students, alumni, and community members alike are invited to come meet Chesterton House residents, staff and board members.

“Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all.” ~ C. S. LewisCome join us at the Chesterton House for a very poetic night! Tea, cider, […]

St. Albert the Great Forum on Science and Religion The human mind, its consciousness, its capacity for abstract thought, and its openness to truth cannot be given a purely physical or mechanical explanation. About Stephen M. Barr Stephen M. Barr is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Delaware, […]

“There is not one square inch in the whole domain of our human existence over which Christ, who is Sovereign over all, does not cry, Mine!” ― Abraham Kuyper The Jubilee Conference is about living faithfully in every area of life.  For over 40 years, thousands of college students have been invited to Pittsburgh to talk, learn, […]

Showing selections of a dramatic, single performer presentation of the Gospel of Mark, Dr. Voelz will raise the challenges and insights such a performance offers. Dr. Ryan O'Dowd will facilitate the discussion. Dr. Voelz is the Dr. Jack Dean Kingsbury Professor of New Testament Theology at Concordia Seminary. Cosponsored with Trinity Lutheran Church

Chesterton House and Veritas Forum at Cornell are co-hosting a showing of the movie 13th, which is on the topic of racial inequality with a special focus on mass incarceration. There will be small group discussion afterward. The movie will be shown in Uris G01.

Chances are, you or someone you know has asked this very question. The problem is, the Bible never mentions marijuana. Drawing from his book, Tom Breedan will discuss how scripture can still help people make wise and God-honoring desicions about marijuana use.  Tom Breeden received an M.Div. from Reformed Theological Seminary in Washington, D.C. and is […]

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 […]

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 […]