Fredrick C. Wood Lecture Just over a century ago, Cornell's first president and co-founder Andrew Dickson White published a two-volume work entitled A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom, a work that has been very influential in framing conversations about science and religion throughout the twentieth century. Although the last thirty […]
Upstate NY Christian Graduate-Faculty Conference In 1994 Mark Noll published a seminal book entitled The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, which was an indictment of the failure of evangelicals to be good stewards of the life of the mind. Although it has become customary in some Christian circles to proclaim the lordship of Christ over every […]
Science is always shaped by what is happening in the broader society that supports it, and the science of the 17th century was no different. Dr. Consolmagno examines how Galileo's work challenged the science of the day, how it was shaped by the personal ambitions of the main players in the field of natural philosophy […]
Health care costs have become an increasingly difficult issue for many in light of the global economic downturn, yet the decisions we make speak loudly about our value system. Medical costs are largest at the fringe of a utilitarian society, the very young, old and sick, which applies tremendous pressure to adjust our values to […]
This is a special event for anyone in the Seattle area interested in learning more about Chesterton House and the study center movement. There will be a dinner prior to the lecture for Cornell alumni. If you are interested in the dinner, please contact [email protected]. Higher education poses a great dilemma for Christian students and […]
Co-sponsored with Campus On A Hill (COAH) In Orthodoxy, G. K. Chesterton recounts his personal journey to faith; along the way, he exposes the weaknesses of the materialism, stoicism, and cynicism of the modern world. The theme of Orthodoxy is that Chesterton, in trying to put together his own system to explain the strangeness of man and his […]
Upstate NY Pastors Conference We live in a wildly pluralistic world, and the growing diversity shows no sign of slowing down. As a result, Christians increasingly finding themselves living among people, as neighbors, colleagues and co-workers, who do not share their deepest convictions and values. Many believers feel uneasy in such a setting, with a […]
Graduate Christian Fellowship Roundtable Three science fiction films were made almost exactly a decade and a half apart: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Blade Runner (1982), and The Matrix (1999). Each raises important questions about what it means to live in a world of technology. We'll watch clips from all three films, identify the questions […]
Graduate Christian Fellowship Retreat Our society gives us a false choice between two powerful forces: cynicism and sentimentality. Both are used to trash the Christian faith but both also carry enough elements of truth to be very seductively confusing to us in our own attitudes to God, life, other people, church, marriage, politics..... What is […]
