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  })();</description><title>Exploring True Life</title><generator>Tumblr (3.0; @veritasforum)</generator><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/</link><item><title>Charles Lee discussed faith and success last Saturday at The...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/e70d29da6eee835b519ed43d886c77f2/tumblr_mlq6s485r61qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Charles Lee discussed faith and success last Saturday at The Veritas Forum at Cornell!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/48715843967</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/48715843967</guid><pubDate>Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:40:00 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Ian Hutchinson discusses science and faith with 450 students at...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/c1a218b0f200e0d09f946a961013856e/tumblr_mld2tknsj71qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ian Hutchinson discusses science and faith with 450 students at The Veritas Forum at Stanford last night!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/48134764791</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/48134764791</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Apr 2013 14:46:32 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>Happy Easter from the Veritas Forum! To understand the full...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/N79r-hdwn5o?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Happy Easter from the Veritas Forum! To understand the full significance of the holiday, check out NT Wright explaining the importance and impact of the resurrection at The Veritas Forum at Emory in 2008.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/46787066319</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/46787066319</guid><pubDate>Sun, 31 Mar 2013 16:55:30 -0400</pubDate></item><item><title>At The Veritas Forum at the University of Oklahoma, Duke...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/ab678bff55f4619224783f24d7775d7d/tumblr_mgohrpiAnx1qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;At The Veritas Forum at the University of Oklahoma, Duke Professor Ray Barfield discussed “What Does it Mean to be Human?” &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Listen to the full audio on our website: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.veritas.org/Talks.aspx#!/v/1034" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.veritas.org/"&gt;http://www.veritas.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Talks.aspx#!/v/1034&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/40610758660</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/40610758660</guid><pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 12:55:01 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>At The Veritas Forum at TAMU, Os Guinness examined how to deal...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/fb194f49fc9d16882844ec3f45598fa0/tumblr_mg4gf9QQbI1qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;At The Veritas Forum at TAMU, Os Guinness examined how to deal with our differences in an age of exploding pluralism. Do you agree with Guinness’s argument that pluralism does not demand affirming all belief systems as equally true and right?&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;Watch the full talk at: &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.veritas.org/Talks.aspx#!/v/1215" rel="nofollow nofollow" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.veritas.org/"&gt;http://www.veritas.org/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span class="word_break"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;Talks.aspx#!/v/1215&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/39687156392</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/39687156392</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:13:57 -0500</pubDate><category>veritasforum</category><category>veritas.org</category><category>os guinness</category><category>pluralism</category></item><item><title>Marianne Meye Thompson explains some of the extra-Biblical...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/JllnhlGyUw4?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Marianne Meye Thompson explains some of the extra-Biblical evidence for Jesus Christ and why the New Testament can be regarded as historically credible. Do you think we need extra-biblical sources to have good evidence of the life of Jesus Christ or can we rely on the New Testament?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/39316727126</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/39316727126</guid><pubDate>Mon, 31 Dec 2012 12:42:47 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category><category>evidence for belief</category></item><item><title>John Lennox explains the unique claims of Christianity at The...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="300" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DMc38L44avA?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;John Lennox explains the unique claims of Christianity at The Veritas Forum at Harvard. &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/39047805926</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/39047805926</guid><pubDate>Fri, 28 Dec 2012 12:03:52 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Merry Christmas from the Veritas Forum! Our gift to you is a...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/05ba1feb229586768debfbb29cd86bef/tumblr_mfllstKUnN1qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Merry Christmas from the Veritas Forum! Our gift to you is a free chapter from A Place for Truth. Download it at &lt;a href="http://my.veritas.org/download-nt-wright/%C2%A0"&gt;http://my.veritas.org/download-nt-wright/ &lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38800778241</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38800778241</guid><pubDate>Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:55:41 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Os Guinness proposes that the best way to preserve religious...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fh3VYoNVfj4?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Os Guinness proposes that the best way to preserve religious freedom is not litigation but cultivating a spirit of liberty within the heart. Do you think religious liberty needs to be protected? How should we best protect it?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38399736113</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38399736113</guid><pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 14:34:06 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category><category>religious freedom</category><category>os guinness</category></item><item><title>Ross Douthat Reflects on Newtown</title><description>Ross Douthat Reflects on Newtown: Over at the NYT, Ross Douthat explores what Christianity has to...</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38231972884</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38231972884</guid><pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 11:40:00 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritas forum</category><category>suffering</category></item><item><title>Ian Hutchinson explains why miracles can’t be tested...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/GSpNSXcWHUQ?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ian Hutchinson explains why miracles can’t be tested empirically, because God is relational. Do you agree that asking for a scientific test for miracles is like asking for a scientific test for love?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38176165306</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/38176165306</guid><pubDate>Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:34:50 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category><category>science and faith</category></item><item><title>Mary Poplin at The Veritas Forum @ U Michigan, on...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/52a44c82a4290cdbb9d6f199057f14ee/tumblr_mf1c9m8aSU1qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Mary Poplin at The Veritas Forum @ U Michigan, on “Ignorance ISN’T Bliss: What every college student should know about religion and doesn’t.”&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Watch the full talk here: &lt;a href="http://www.veritas.org/Talks.aspx#!/v/1181"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.veritas.org/Talks.aspx#!/v/1181"&gt;http://www.veritas.org/Talks.aspx#!/v/1181&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37921477376</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37921477376</guid><pubDate>Fri, 14 Dec 2012 14:17:46 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category><category>Mary Poplin</category><category>university</category></item><item><title>Listen to John Lennox explain how the perceived tension between...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/UGKbvt4saKI?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Listen to John Lennox explain how the perceived tension between science and faith is really a conflict between the worldviews of materialism and theism! Do you think the evidence for materialism or for theism is stronger?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37842509836</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37842509836</guid><pubDate>Thu, 13 Dec 2012 12:58:09 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category></item><item><title>Peter Williams explains some of the evidence about Jesus Christ...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/AkFI07vLJA0?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Peter Williams explains some of the evidence about Jesus Christ outside of the Bible. Is having extra-Biblical sources is an important part of evidence for faith? Is Pliny’s letter solid evidence? &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37644570632</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37644570632</guid><pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 12:10:32 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category><category>evidence for belief</category></item><item><title>David Skeel on Churches &amp; Political Speech</title><description>David Skeel on Churches &amp; Political Speech: Veritas Riff Fellow David Skeel recently authored a...</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37337395277</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37337395277</guid><pubDate>Thu, 06 Dec 2012 11:32:29 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Richard Higginson offers suggestions on how to reform our...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/DEJia8KC-sM?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Richard Higginson offers suggestions on how to reform our capital markets to make the world look a little more like the kingdom of God. Do you think his suggestions would improve our economic system or do you have a better idea? Let us know in the comments!&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37114699816</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/37114699816</guid><pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2012 10:34:21 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>the veritas forum</category><category>capital markets</category><category>finance</category><category>ethics</category></item><item><title>For a limited time, The Veritas Forum is giving away Tim...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_me9nuiDKpR1qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;span&gt;For a limited time, The Veritas Forum is giving away Tim Keller’s chapter in “A Place For Truth” for free! Go to our homepage &lt;a href="http://hub.am/SsZdVt"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.veritas.org"&gt;www.veritas.org&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt; to download your copy!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36826152372</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36826152372</guid><pubDate>Thu, 29 Nov 2012 15:35:06 -0500</pubDate></item><item><title>Doctor Renee Hsia discusses some of the moral dilemmas she faced...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="225" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/fPXQjK5Vis8?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;Doctor Renee Hsia discusses some of the moral dilemmas she faced while working with refugees from the Rwandan genocide. How do you wrestle with the moral ambiguities that arise from the fact that the line between good and evil runs through each human heart? &lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36671207572</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36671207572</guid><pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2012 11:58:07 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>The Veritas Forum</category><category>genocide</category><category>moral dilemma</category><category>good and evil</category></item><item><title>MIT Professor Ian Hutchinson argues that Christianity...</title><description>&lt;iframe width="400" height="299" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/eWFdv3ZjxqE?wmode=transparent&amp;autohide=1&amp;egm=0&amp;hd=1&amp;iv_load_policy=3&amp;modestbranding=1&amp;rel=0&amp;showinfo=0&amp;showsearch=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;MIT Professor Ian Hutchinson argues that Christianity isn’t a cosmological theory, and thus that science doesn’t pose a threat to faith. Do you agree that Christianity is consistent with multiple cosmological theories?&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36596000273</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36596000273</guid><pubDate>Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:24:00 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category><category>Science And Faith</category></item><item><title>At The Veritas Forum at Northwestern, NT Wright explains how our...</title><description>&lt;img src="http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdyb4omv8o1qhq6e6o1_500.jpg"/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;p&gt;At The Veritas Forum at Northwestern, NT Wright explains how our scientific advancement has not prevented society from worshipping the same gods of old.&lt;/p&gt;</description><link>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36361461114</link><guid>http://veritasforum.tumblr.com/post/36361461114</guid><pubDate>Fri, 23 Nov 2012 12:26:48 -0500</pubDate><category>veritas.org</category><category>veritasforum</category></item></channel></rss>
