Is the Universe Finely Tuned for Life?

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.

2023 Partners Update

2023 Partners Update

Come one, come all! Join the Consortium on December 8th at 4 pm ET to hear from Executive Director Karl Johnson on current programming, financials and 2023 accomplishments—all made possible by your partnership. You will also hear about the Consortium's plans and...

The Promise & Peril of Artificial Intelligence & Sacred Texts

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...

The Promise & Peril of Artificial Intelligence & Sacred Texts

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...

2023 Partners Update

What is a Christian Study Center?

What is a Christian study center? And why is it called a movement? This session is designed specifically for those who either may not be familiar with Christian study centers, or who may only be familiar with a single center and are curious to learn more about the...

Small Magazines: Recovering Public Conversation

Small Magazines: Recovering Public Conversation

What role can small magazines play in the public square? Can they provide a space for fruitful dialogue and healthy debate? Join Plough, Mockingbird, and Christianity Today to discuss these questions with editors from each of the magazines, including Russell...

26th Annual Kuyper Lecture: Who’s Caring for the Children?

26th Annual Kuyper Lecture: Who’s Caring for the Children?

CPJ’s Kuyper Lecture focuses attention on the deepest and broadest questions about religion and public life from a Christian point of view, with attention to the pluralism of belief and institutions in society. This year's Kuyper Lecture features Rachel Anderson,...

Beauty: The Hospitable Welcome of the Real

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

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

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...