One of the key questions surrounding the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan was "Is this a just war?" What are the criteria for a just war? Or, can Christians endorse war? These are key questions that have long been discussed in Christian history. This week for Friday Conversations, these question will be explored by Dr. […]
Lisa Sharon Harper is the co-founder and executive director of NY Faith & Justice, a movement of churches, organizations and individuals dedicated to following Christ, addressing issues of violence and environmental injustice, and ending poverty in New York through spiritual formation, education, and direct advocacy. Ms. Harper is a featured op-ed writer for the prolific […]
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 […]
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 […]
Face2Face Improv presents an evening of comedy and improvisational theater: Face2Face, recently invited to perform with the Improv Olympics, a feature production of Second City Chicago, comes to Ithaca to perform as part of the annual Institute of Biblical Studies sponsored by New Life Presbyterian Church, Bethel Grove Bible Church and Chesterton House Center for […]
