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Ignatian Values in Honors: Not Just for Jesuits (NCHC 2013)
Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others? (Martin Luther King, Jr.) This quote was inspired by this presentation. Bayside B (Sheraton New Orleans Hotel), 1-1.50pm...
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“It All Turns on Affection” (Wendell Berry’s Jefferson Lecture): Why We Can...
Join us for the last conversation this semester at the Honors Salon on Tue, Nov 19, 2013, 7-8pm (5 minutes from campus – email me for the address) Watch this rare television interview with one of...
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We have the world to live in on the condition that we will take good care of it. And to take good care of it we have to know it. And to know it and to be willing to take care of it, we have to love...
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Are you a “boomer” or a “sticker”? –“It all turns on affection” (Wendell Berry)
Come find out this evening at the last Honors Salon conversation this fall from 7-8pm! Wendell Berry opens his 2012 Jefferson Lecture with this quote from Howards End: “Because a thing is going strong...
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HON 300: Cultures of the Mississippi Delta – Dr. Clay Motley, spring 2014
Tue, 12.45-2.05, Cherry 211 (CRN: 31757) Dr. Clay Motley will give a talk on A Piece of the True Cross(roads) in Clarksdale, Mississippi this Thu, Nov 21, 7pm at Barnes & Noble in Bowling Green The...
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A Piece of the True (Cross)Roads in Clarksdale, Mississippi – Dr. Clay Motley...
More information about Dr. Motley’s presentation tonight Dr. Motley also offers a 1.5h colloquium this spring on the subject: The Cultures of the Mississippi Delta Future & past presentations in...
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What Would Jesus Buy? (2007)
A Holiday Tradition The touching tale of Reverend Billy and the Church of Stop Shopping Gospel Choir. A documentary about our pernicious consumerism and the true meaning of Christmas. Film &...
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The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A Personal View of the Search for God...
A fitting cross-post for the holiday season. This is one of the best books on the timeless subject of science and religion. Carl Sagan, the great Cornell University astronomer and popularizer of...
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Why are we here?
The hard truth seems to be this: We live in a vast and awesome universe in which, daily, suns are made and worlds destroyed, where humanity clings to an obscure clod of rock. The significance of our...
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The 13 Best Books of 2013: The Definitive Annual Reading List of Overall...
Brain Pickings, December 23, 2013 Soul-stirring, brain-expanding reads on intuition, love, grief, attention, education, and the meaning of life. All gratifying things must come to an end: The season’s...
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Pale blue dot: Earthrise, December 24, 1968
Cutting-edge technology reveals how one of history’s most important images almost didn’t happen. (Maria Popova) Earthrise, Apollo 8, December 24, 1968 (NASA) The Earth is a very small stage in a vast...
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The 13 most read and shared posts on Brain Pickings in 2013
Brain Pickings, December 26, 2013 Everything you missed and everything you’d want to revisit, in one cozy place. As the year rolls to an end, what better way to reflect on its fruits than by looking...
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Cornel West on Martin Luther King, Jr. and Nelson Mandela as “Santa Claus”&...
Cornel West, one of the leading African American and public intellectuals, who will speak at WKU on February 21 as part of the 2013/14 Cultural Enhancement Series, cautions against the “Santa...
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What should we be worried about?
Big picture thinkers on ‘real scenarios that keep scientists up at night’ Since we can’t stop worrying, can science teach us at least how to worry better? What should and shouldn’t we be worried about...
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Race and Democracy in the Age of Obama – A Lecture by Dr. Cornel West
Justice is what love looks like in public. (Cornel West) Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear one of the leading African American intellectuals. Cornel West is a scholar, activist,...
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Global Christianity: Poverty, Conflict & Peace Building – Film “Mandela and...
Tue, Mar 18, 6-8.30pm, Holy Spirit Catholic Church, 4754 Smallhouse Rd, Bowling Green, KY 6pm: Welcome with refreshments 6.30pm: Film presentation of “Mandela and de Klerk (1997) 7.15-8.30pm:...
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A Conversation with Rev. Dr. Bernard Lafayette (Chandler School of Theology,...
Hosted by the Institute for Citizenship and Social Responsibility Friday, April 25, 2014, 3pm, Garrett 116 refreshments The Rev. Dr. Lafayette, an ordained minister, is a longtime civil rights...
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A Symposium on Peace, Islam, and Counter-Narratives
This conference brings together academics, practitioners, policy influencers, and Muslim thought leaders to discuss the potential strategic role of the Islam in American security policy and...
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