Past Events
Lines that Divide Screening/Q&A with associate producer Jennifer Lahl
Thursday, November 12, 7-9 p.m.
Grant CenterListen to C. Ben Mitchell and Jennifer Lahl's Q&A session after the film (.mp3)
Lines That Divide associate producer, Jennifer Lahl, is founder and national director of The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network, an organization working to shed light on the bioethics issues within our culture that most profoundly affect our humanity, and advancing the voice of a morally responsible science that respects the inherent value of humanity and that celebrates its beauty and complexity. Lahl couples her 25 years experience as a pediatric critical care nurse, hospital administrator and senior-level nursing management, with a deep passion to speak for those who have no voice. Lahl's' writings have appeared in various publications including the San Francisco Chronicle, the Dallas Morning News and the American Journal of Bioethics. As a field expert she is routinely interviewed on radio and television including ABC, CBC, PBS and NPR and called upon to speak alongside lawmakers and members of the scientific community, even being invited to speak to members of the European Parliament in Brussels to address egg trafficking. She is founding director of Every Woman First and serves on the North American Editorial Board for Ethics and Medicine as well as Board of Reference for Joni Eareckson Tada's Institute on Disability. Learn More At Their Website
William Gray,
The Modern Medici: Arts Patronage in a Brave New World
Friday, Feb. 20th at 1:00 pm in Harvey AuditoriumPresented by Student Programs, the Society for Critical Imagination and the Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual Discipleship
Our brave new world is one of instant downloads, file-sharing, viral videos and digital piracy. In this kind of social and economic climate, how does an independent artist survive? So questions “Broke” - the documentary film Americana hip-hop artist Will Gray currently has in production. As cameras follow Gray’s journey across college campus this Spring promoting his unique sound, the documentary also listens in on the conversation he initiates about what is called for in this brave new world. Gray submits that this age, at least, calls for a new kind of patron, a “Modern Medici,” if you will. Come here Will Gray reflect on the artistic life amid the instability of today’s music industry.
Should we use medicine and technology to create a perfect world?
Will this make us happy?
Will this make us more human - or less?
Explore these issues with us at the January 2009 Town and Gown Lecture Series
Tuesdays, January 6, 13, 20, 27 & February 3, 2009
6:00-10:00 p.m. (except February 3 – meets 7:00-9:00 p.m.)
White Hall 102
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| D. Joy Riley, M.D. Executive Director Tennessee Center for Bioethics and Culture January 13, 2009 |
Michael Poore Executive Director The Humanitas Project January 20, 2009 |
Dr. Wilfred McClay SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities University of Tennessee – Chattanooga February 3, 2009 |
Learn More at the Series Website
Mars Hill Forum Lecture - Feb. 4, 2009
Topic: "Does the Idea of Progress Have a Future? Three Christian Views"
Speaker: Dr. Wilfred McClay
SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities
University of Tennessee – Chattanooga
Time: 12 p.m. (noon)
Location: Carl Grant Events Center
Co-sponsored by Union's Center for Politics and Religion
Abstract: Like so much else about modernity, the idea of progress in history has gradually become problematic to us. Not only do many of us question the inevitability of progress, but the very idea that we would have any sure means of judging what progress is. But I contend that a reconsideration of the idea of progress from the standpoint of the Christian faith holds the prospect of a more adequate understanding of that idea. To begin exploring this possibility, my lecture draws upon a comparison of three important twentieth-century writers, Herbert Butterfield, Christopher Dawson, and Reinhold Niebuhr, each of whom brought Christian religious commitments to the problem, but in strikingly different ways.
Mars Hill Forum
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
7:00 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Harvey HallSpeakers: Kevin DeYoung and Ted Kluck
Authors of "Why We're Not Emergent: (By Two Guys Who Should Be)"
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Call for Papers (.pdf)
Photos from Conference
Courtesy of Dale Tuggy, Associate Prof of Philosophy at SUNY FredoniaPlenary Speakers:
Kelly James Clark
Professor of Philosophy
Calvin College
Robin Collins
Professor of Philosophy
Messiah College
Winfried Corduan
Professor of Philosophy
Taylor University
Mars Hill Forum Lecture - Feb. 1, 2008
Topic: "Racism as Vice: the Current Philosophical Debate"
Speaker: Dr. Jorge L.A. Garcia
Professor of Philosophy
Boston College
Time: 3:15 - 4:30 p.m.
Location: Harvey Hall
Speaker Bio: Dr. Jorge L.A. Garcia (Ph.D. Yale University) is Professor of Philosophy at Boston College. He is the author numerous articles and essays on a wide-range of topics in theoretical and applied ethics, such as racism, virtue theory, and biomedical ethics. He recently authored a forthcoming book, The Heart of Racism: Essays on Diversity, Race, and Relativism. Dr. Garcia is an advisory board member for the Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture and a non-resident Fellow with the Du Bois Institute at Harvard University.
The Carl F.H. Henry Institute for Intellectual Discipleship at Union University
Director: Justin Barnard
1050 Union University Drive, Box 1849, Jackson, TN 38305
phone: 731-661-5963 | e-mail: jbarnard@uu.edu