At the end of each semester, the Center for Christian Study hosts Exam Snacks during finals week, offering breakfast and dinner for UVA students.
Is the Universe Finely Tuned for Life?
The Michigan Christian Study Center welcomes Nathan Hudson, Assistant Professor at East Carolina University, on historical and recent arguments for the fine tuning of the laws, physical constants, and distributions of matter and energy in the universe.
The Promise & Peril of Artificial Intelligence & Sacred Texts
Dr. Brent Seales has spent more than two decades restoring cultural and historical artifacts, such as the 1,700-year-old, charred, En-Gedi Scroll (above), which would disintegrate if touched. Dr. Seales developed a way to digitally reconstruct the fragile document...
What’s Unique About American Christianity?
American society and culture have deeply shaped traditions of Christianity that have developed here since the 16th century. To make sense of American Christianity today, we’ll unpack three, profound, historical and sociological influences: the trans-Atlantic origins...
Beauty: The Hospitable Welcome of the Real
Esther Lightcap Meek (BA Cedarville College, MA Western Kentucky University, PhD Temple University) is Professor of Philosophy emeritus at Geneva College, in Western Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow Scholar with the Fujimura Institute, an Associate Fellow with the Kirby...
AI: What’s Really at Stake
Join Rick Campanelli, UVA Batten School Lecturer who focuses on the ethics of disruptive technologies, and the Study Center’s Graduate Ministries Director, as he describes what is disruptive about the AI waves just starting to crest, how AI will intersect with biotech...
An Evening of Amazing Grace at the University of Minnesota
Join Anselm House on Thursday, November 9 for a benefit dinner–An Evening of Amazing Grace at the University–to hear about grace in the lives of current and future servant leaders at the University of Minnesota and to mark the 250th anniversary of John Newton’s hymn...
Business, Finance & Glorifying God?
Join the North Carolina Study Center for a pizza dinner on Thursday, November 2nd at 5pm at the Study Center to learn more about how you can glorify God in the marketplace and about the unique opportunities to build culture and promote human flourishing in business....
What Protestants (& Catholics) Can Learn From Francis of Assisi
Francis of Assisi is well known and hardly known at all. Rhys Bezzant, Dean of Missional Leadership at Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia, will explore how Francis of Assisi sought to renew the church and encourage deep fellowship among believers.
A Distinctly Christian Engagement with the Public University
University of Notre Dame Professor of Political Science Patrick Deneen will deliver a lecture on Christianity's place in the modern university and education more broadly.