Rev. Michael S. Chen serves the CCO as Director of Cross-Cultural Ministry, and he spent his formative growing-up years on the icy tundra of Minnesota in a majority Swedish and Lutheran culture, where he learned to inhabit a “ScandanAsian” identity. Voted “most likely to be beamed up by aliens” in high school, he was an […]
Spiritual disciplines are often viewed primarily as a means to draw us closer to God. While these practices do deepen and enrich our "vertical" relationship with God, Kyle David Bennett argues that they were originally designed to positively impact our "horizontal" relationships--with neighbors, strangers, enemies, friends, family, animals, and even the earth. Bennett explains that […]
Are you a pre-health student interested in how your vocation can impact the Kingdom of God and His work in the world? Come and listen to a conversation with Dr. Michael Bernardo '78 and hear the possibilities. Pizza and light refreshments will be served. Dr. Michael Bernardo graduated with BS in Biology, Cornell Class […]
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.
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 […]
Speaker: Liz West International Justice Mission's Senior Program Manager of Justice Operations.
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 […]
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 […]
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.
