For many people, math is cold and lifeless, a bunch of rules to follow---a way to separate people rather than a way to bring them together. It’s no wonder that many have anxiety over their math experiences. But what if we could see how math is tied to our deepest human longings---for beauty, for justice, […]
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 […]
Hosted by Cornell Claritas & Chesterton House Alumni, we hope to connect to an Cornell alumni while also working thoughtfully and collaboratively through a work of fiction. Meetings will be every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month, from 7:30-8:45PM EDT, starting on October 7th. Huge plus: There is NO reading or other work required […]
Hosted by Cornell Claritas & Chesterton House Alumni, we hope to connect to an Cornell alumni while also working thoughtfully and collaboratively through a work of fiction. Meetings will be every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month, from 7:30-8:45PM EDT, starting on October 7th. Huge plus: There is NO reading or other work required […]
Social media and contemporary cultural conflict is seeing a resurgence of shame as a tool of social control. Modern psychology draws distinctions between guilt (over what one has done) with shame (over one's very being). Such distinctions have been explored and popularized by psychologists like Brene Brown and others, but these do not perfectly map […]
Hosted by Cornell Claritas & Chesterton House Alumni, we hope to connect to an Cornell alumni while also working thoughtfully and collaboratively through a work of fiction. Meetings will be every 1st & 3rd Thursday of the month, from 7:30-8:45PM EDT, starting on October 7th. Huge plus: There is NO reading or other work required […]
What does it mean to live a good or “happy” life? Many throughout human history have believed pleasure to be the most important organizing principle to answer this question. Christians meanwhile have had varied and complicated views of pleasure, its varieties, and its role in the ultimate meaning of life. Join us in conversation with […]
Title: Jesus Christ and the Importance of History Date: November 10, 2021 Time: 2pm ET Description: Christianity appeals to history. Something happened, in the events concerning Jesus, as a result of which — so Christians claim — the world is a different place. But how does ‘history’ actually work? What can it do to help […]
