The Veritas Forum at University of Tennessee, Knoxville seeks to explore the possibility of truth, beauty, and goodness in every aspect of our academic and personal lives. The forum is an opportunity for the entire university community to explore and discuss life's hardest questions together. By asking the pressing questions on campus and answering them with respected university voices, we hope to engage the entire university in fruitful discussion.
We, the planners of the forum, are inspired by the idea that Jesus Christ has something relevant to offer our modern university in its search for knowledge, truth, and significance. We welcome and honor skeptics and their questions, and even bring some of our own. The forum is not meant to be a typical academic exchange of abstract and unembodied ideas. Rather, it should come out of real community earnestly exploring questions of real importance.
We have invited presenters who have wrestled with our questions to challenge us, connect disconnected ideas, and put forth their answers and objections in light of our beliefs and doubts. We believe the events will draw participants into real conversations, questions, discussions, stories, and friendships.
The forum is sponsored by a collection of campus and community groups and created by a group of undergraduate and graduate students, professors, university chaplains, local community members, and alumni.
The forum will feature presenter Dr. Michael Lindsay, professor of sociology at Rice University. He will speak about his study of how people of faith (Christians) gained access to positions of influence in our culture in a relatively brief amount of time. There will also be time for Q&A.
Join us on October 3, 2007, at 7:00 pm in room 132 of Taylor Law School, University of Tennessee-Knoxville.
