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The Veritas Forum
At the Veritas Forum, we believe we were made to seek truth and be changed by it. We are a community of students, faculty, campus ministers, and more, who are pursuing a vision of the university that seeks and stewards truth and invites people of all backgrounds to explore the ideas that shape our lives. Since 1992, we’ve shared lectures and conversations with a firm belief that generous dialogue is essential for universities and the Christian faith alike. In this podcast, we're pulling from…
Episodes
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Faith, Hope, Love, & Climate Change | Dorothy Boorse & John Nolt
As we continue to wrestle with the reality of a changing climate, Wendell Berry’s invocation—”Be joyful, though you have considered all the…
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Beethoven, Suffering & Faith | Mia Chung
Beethoven’s presence and music still looms in our modern imagination, but we rarely think about the man behind the music. Mia Chung, a world-renowned…
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Why We Need Skepticism | Dallas Willard
In the modern age, skepticism is often equated with intelligence. But is there room for belief in the contemporary mind? At a Veritas Forum from Claremont, the…
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Can Robots Become Human? | Rosalind Picard & Michael Littman
The line between science fiction and reality grows increasingly thin as artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more prominent. While some fear an impending robot…
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The Language of God | Francis Collins
Dr. Francis Collins, world-renowned geneticist, physician, and Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), is uniquely positioned at the intersection…
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You Are What You Love | James K.A. Smith
What do you want? Our answer to this question, argues author and philosopher James K.A. Smith (Calvin), reveals the habits that shape our lives. Yet we often…
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Is There Truth Beyond Science? | John Lennox & Larry Shapiro
This October, over 1,000 students and community members packed out Shannon Hall at the University of Wisconsin in Madison to hear John Lennox (Oxford) and…
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God, Math, and the Multiverse | Satyan Devadoss
In 2011, The Veritas Forum at Caltech hosted Satyan Devadoss, who, at the time, was an associate professor of math at Williams College. Devadoss talks about…
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Live the Questions | N.T. Wright & Heidi Maibom
Earlier this year, we hosted New Testament theologian N.T. Wright in dialogue with professor of philosophy Heidi Lene Maibom at the Veritas Forum at the…
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Searching for Truth Through Fantasy | Madeleine L'Engle
Madeleine L'Engle, award-winning author of A Wrinkle in Time, defines "fantasy" as that which "pushes us, opens us, makes us aware of who we are and who the…
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Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? | Ian Hutchinson & Robert Lue
Last Spring, Ian Hutchinson (MIT) and Robert Lue (Harvard) sat down at Harvard’s Science Center with Anne Harrington (Harvard) to discuss miracles. Do…
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Overcoming Echo Chambers | Robert George & Hamza Yusuf
Can Christians and Muslims get along in America? That’s the question we asked Christian intellectual and Princeton law professor Robert George and…
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Designing Your Life Worth Living | Dave Evans & Bill Burnett
Bill Burnett and Dave Evans teach the most popular class at Stanford, "Designing Your Life." It helps students reframe the question, "How do I live a…
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Emotional Machines | Rosalind Picard
This week on The Veritas Forum podcast we’re featuring a conversation with Rosalind Picard, an internationally-recognized researcher in affective…
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Cold Fusion and the End of Scientism? | Ian Hutchinson
This week on The Veritas Forum podcast we’re featuring a conversation with Ian Hutchinson, a professor of nuclear science and engineering at MIT. A…
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The Psychology of Finding Yourself | Ross Douthat & Nancy Hill
This week on The Veritas Forum podcast, we’re featuring a conversation with New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and Nancy Hill, a developmental…
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Faith, Race, and (Non)Violence | Andra Gillespie, Na’ilah Suad Nasir, Claudia May
In 2015, during the fallout of Ferguson, three Black women took the stage at UC Berkley to discuss faith, race and non-violence. Andra Gillespie, associate…
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The Multiverse, the Polygraph, and the Resurrection | Tom Rudelius
Our latest podcast episode features an interview with rising physicist Tom Rudelius. We discuss String Theory, polygraph tests, fine-tuning, and our place in…
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Is Belief in God irrational? | Meghan Sullivan
Notre Dame philosophy professor, Meghan Sullivan, shares the journey by which—to her own surprise—she became convinced by the truth-claims of the…
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Christianity and the Tooth Fairy | John Lennox at UCLA
Children believe in the tooth fairy until their reasoning capabilities mature and they recognize this belief is neither grounded nor relevant. Does belief in…
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Faith, Race, and Hip-Hop at Harvard | An Interview with Obasi Shaw
Obasi Shaw has recently hit the news as the first Harvard student to submit a rap album as his senior thesis. The album, entitled "Liminal Minds," represents a…
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The Bible: Gospel, Guide, or Garbage? | N.T. Wright & Sean Kelly at Harvard
How should we read the Bible? Our latest podcast features New Testament Scholar and Theologian NT Wright and Harvard Philosopher Sean Kelly, who discussed one…
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Under God? | Michael Sandel & Jean Bethke Elshtain
Throughout our 25 year history, we've had the privilege of creating conversations between some of academia's giants and of modeling dialogue across difference…
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Connecting Passion and Purpose | charity: water Founder Scott Harrison
In March, we launched our Veritas Cities Forums in Seattle, a series of events designed to foster a vibrant public square that invites globally-engaged leaders…
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Disenchanted? | Tim Keller & Anthony Kronman at Yale
Two weeks ago, we hosted a Veritas Forum moderated by Willie Jennings at Yale with Tim Keller and Anthony Kronman, former Dean of the Yale Law School and…
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The Closing of the Modern Mind | Tim Keller & Jonathan Haidt at NYU
Social psychologist and atheist public intellectual Jonathan Haidt and author and pastor Tim Keller are leading voices in their respective fields. On February…