While in Ghana to coordinate with the World Health Organization on data collection following an Ebola epidemic, Dr. Jim Thomas visited Elmina Fort. Elmina is where Africans were enslaved and held to be put on ships to the Americas. Seeing a church in Elmina was a shock to Jim's Christian faith. In this lecture, he will talk about how he processed that shock over the following years and how it affects his international work now.
Read MoreDr. Day will discuss Jesus' economic assumptions, his economic logic, and descriptions of how God's kingdom would work. Jesus' teachings do not give a ringing endorsement or condemnation of a contemporary economic system, but they do give us new insights into how we should live in this world and the one to come.
Read MoreDouglas Hedley is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at the University of Cambridge. In this lecture, Prof. Hedley discusses images of the Divine in C.S. Lewis's Till We Have Faces, a retelling of the myth of Cupid and Psyche.
Read MoreIn this lecture, Dr. Angel Adams Parham explores insights from the life of faith in writers from the Black intellectual tradition, with an emphasis on the work of Martin Luther King, Jr, as we seek insights for today.
Read MoreThe philosopher Immanuel Kant claimed that every human being must answer the fundamental question: “For what may I hope?” This lecture explores the Christian doctrine of the resurrection of the body, arguing that it provides unique and compelling answers to perennial human anxieties about death.
Read MoreLast week, Cambridge House had the pleasure of hosting 70 students, staff, and faculty for a lecture from Dr. Philip Swenson, an Associate Professor in William & Mary’s Philosophy Department, on his favorite arguments for God’s existence.
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