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 MoreI’ve been reflecting on what the diffusion of knowledge entails and why we should care about it: Is it just a mechanistic transmission of information (spoiler: I don’t think it is), or is it something more personal and spiritual? Does it matter how we go about such diffusion of knowledge, whether in the university or other educational communities such as Cambridge House?
Read MoreAs a church, we have often lacked an integrated theological framework to respond meaningfully to our environmental crisis. Too often, nature is seen as an afterthought, rather than a central part of our calling to steward God’s world.
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 MoreAs someone who has worked in over 10 countries, served in four or five professions, and yet sometimes still wonders what I’ll be when I grow up, the idea of vocation as “something more than a career track” resonates deeply with me.
Read MoreAs we leave the summer behind, the campus of William & Mary is once again teeming with students and faculty, and we look forward to seeing many new and familiar faces stop by Cambridge House for tea and good conversation.
Read MoreOur Fellows recently explored and discussed vocation, using texts from the excellent volume Leading Lives that Matter. We often take the question of vocation to be simply the question of career—what am I to do during work hours for paid employment?
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 MoreWhile the events of Holy Week may not seem to have much to say to the modern University, in fact the Kingship of Jesus teaches us much about the intellectual life.
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 MoreDr. Jon Thompson recently presented a seminar with the Faraday Institute entitled, “Personal Identity and Resurrection: Early Modern Philosophical Perspectives.” Watch the replay online.
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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