Chesterton House welcomes Chris Barrett, Professor of Applied Economics and Management, of Agriculture and of Public Policy at Cornell University to discuss development, agricultural and resource economics, poverty traps, food insecurity, how economic models can...
Mary Hirschfeld, professor of economics and theology at Villanova University, became an accomplished professor in a tenured post at Occidental College. As a faculty member there, she had an adult conversion to the Christian faith, which then prompted her to reflect on...
Michael L. Budde joins New College Berkeley to be interviewed about themes from his recent book, Foolishness to Gentiles (Cascade Books, 2022), which raises tough questions about citizenship as Christ-followers in the US.
Bruce Hindmarsh of Regent College joins the Scriptorium to speak on how love transforms our experience of academic work, however mundane or routine. Drawing from the deep well of Christian tradition, Hindmarsh will explore two forms of scholarly love: a love...
Social science data consistently reveal that one's lifelong happiness has less to do with professional success than with the quality of one’s relationships—especially marriage and family life. UVA Professor Brad Wilcox will place a spotlight on how to prepare for and...
The Bible is a library of genres by a host a human authors, and yet it all hangs together as the Word of God and the story of reality. How does that work? How did the original audience understand it? How are we to apply it to our lives and world today? Alcuin Study...
Lewis House hosts Carl Trueman, Professor of Biblical & Religious Studies at Grove City College. He explores the cultural currents beneath the sexual ideology of today’s culture. Why do we, and our wider culture, think the way we do? What forces have shaped us to...
Hear from Dr. Kevin Gary, Professor of Education at Valparaiso University, as we examine the pervasive problem of distraction and boredom as a hindrance to human flourishing and consider ways to connect to richer moral and spiritual practices.
The Executive Director of New College Berkeley, Craig Wong, will share where the organization is headed and how NCB envisions serving the Church in these changing and uncertain times. Then Craig Wong will open up the discussion to attendees. How does NCB's vision...
Join New College Berkeley to reflect on what poetry has to do with maintaining a commitment to truth telling and how the practice of poetry—reading it and writing it—can attune us to language in important and invigorating ways. There will be time to try out some...
