Lectures for Fall 2024
The Black Intellectual Tradition
Angel Adams Parham, PhD Sociology, UVA. Monday, September 23, 7:00
The History of Western Medicine and Its Opportunities and Challenges for the Care of the Individual
James Lynch, MD, Oncology Specialist, Faculty at UF Medical School. Date: TBA.
The Economics of the Kingdom of God
Stephen Day, PhD, Economics Education VCU. Date: TBA.
PREVIOUS LECTURES
This talk examined the philosophical ideas that have shaped Christian thought through the ages about the soul and its relationship to our physical bodies. The age of AI is upon us. AI has infiltrated many aspects of our day-to-day lives whether we know it or not. The wisdom and thoughts of Augustine on the joy and trials of friendship and connection. Dr. Song helped us consider the surprising ways that our social media and technology habits can disrupt our connections with each other and even with God Current assumptions of Western bioethics pose significant challenges for US health care workers who hold to traditional understandings of what it means to be human — or even what is the purpose of medicine itself. Pathways to recover authentic Christian integrity and to use it to restore confidence in Christian witness to the world. Early Christians understood themselves as emotionally distinct from the rest of their culture. Dr. Wendy Kliewer Psychology Department, VCU Monday, October 17, 2022The Elusive Soul: Christian Thought and Debates about the Relationship Between Body and Soul
How “Artificial” is Artificial Intelligence?
Loneliness and Connection in Augustinian Theology
Recovering Personhood in the Digital Age
What Ails Us: A Global Critique of Western BioEthics
Faith Without Ethics Is Dead
Feeling Like a Christian: Emotion in the Early Church
Stress, Strengths, and Substance Use
Audio recordings of previous events
“I’m Listening“ with the Taylor Barnett Quartet
“Choose Today: A Christian’s View of Economics” by Dr. Stephen Day
“Suffering, Evil, and God, part 2,” by Dr. Andrew Moon (philosophy)