Thinking Thursdays
Thinking Thursdays are a great way to dive deeper into a variety of unique and applicable areas! We welcome faculty, staff, and local community members to join us for these weekly talks!
Upcoming Thinking Thursdays
A Christian Take on Environmental Ethics
Everyone has their idea about what constitutes environmentally responsible practices. Some of us even live by those ideas much of the time. As long as we agree with our neighbors that a particular action is “for the common good,” we are free to work side by side in cooperation with them regardless of their underlying ideas about environmental ethics. However, public policy decisions (and even our personal actions) frequently involve a choice between good things. For example, more affordable energy supplies for developing countries versus lower emissions by curtailing combustion of fossil fuels. When we engage in public discourse on such issues our objective should be persuasion. And speaking persuasively should begin with understanding the foundations of one’s own arguments. As a Christian this means having a well-formed understanding of biblical principles that are applicable to the domain of environmental ethics.
The Role of Creativity in Christian Life
Join us as we explore the nature of human creativity and the questions that surround it. What does it mean to create? What is beauty, and why does it matter? How can we think Christianly about art, in all its various forms? How is community necessary to creativity and benefited by it? Loosely inspired by author and singer/songwriter Andrew Peterson’s book Adorning the Dark, we will dive into various short readings, both popular and scholarly, by a wide range of authors and artists grappling with why creativity matters and how to nurture it in ourselves.
Free book provided!