Graduates, families, and guests are invited to join the Center for Christian Study for brunch to celebrate the Class of 2024!
Baccalaureate Service 2024 at Upper House
For much of its history, the University of Wisconsin-Madison hosted a Baccalaureate Service, an ecumenical Christian celebration honoring the graduating class and commissioning them to a journey of service in the greater world. Upper House welcomes graduating...
Unlocking Second Chances
How can churches, businesses, law enforcement, and policymakers better unlock second chances for Americans who have paid their debt to society? Join Faith & Law and the Prison Fellowship for a conversation about the importance of strategies that protect public...
Is the Old Testament View on Justice & Punishment Compatible with Christianity?
Is the Old Testament law a cruel master over Israel from which Jesus freed Christians? The legal reasoning of the Torah is some of the most misunderstood literature of the entire Bible. Jesus understood these books well and demonstrated keen legal insight whenever he...
Living in the Light 2024
Living in the Light is a two-day, in-person event full of fellowship, learning, food, and fun at the Center for Christian Study and around the Charlottesville area. Living in the Light provides an opportunity for parents, alumni, and friends to experience the faith...
Is There a Way of Medicine for Christians?
Join the North Carolina Study Center for a conversation with Farr Curlin, co-director of the Theology, Medicine, & Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School. Curlin will invite participants to consider what Hippocrates, science, compassion, and justice have to do...
Democracy of the Dead: The Missing Piece of Diversity
Ben Myers’s recent book on the Apostles Creed explores why this almost 2,000-year-old statement of faith is still around today. He explores questions such as: Do we really need voices from the past? Shouldn’t we focus on the diverse voices speaking today? As a...
The Shaping Power of Media – a Live Podcast Discussion
What better way to explore the influence and interplay of media, technology, and human communication than during a live podcast recording at Upper House? You will be both audience member and participant in a discussion with John Dyer—author, sociologist, and...
Can Science Explain Everything?
Join the Bradley Study Center for a Veritas Forum featuring MIT Chemistry Professor Troy Van Voorhis and Virginia Tech Philosophy Professor Wendy Parker to explore whether there are questions science is incapable of answering.
Democracy, Religion & Citizenship: The Black Freedom Struggle in Florida from Reconstruction to the Great Depression
Paul Ortiz is Professor of History at the University of Florida and the director of the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at the University of Florida. He is the author of Emancipation Betrayed: The Hidden History of Black Organizing and White Violence in Florida...