Richard Beck – Cornerstone and the ACU Mission
In his talk Your Teacher Eats with Tax Collectors and Sinners: You, Cornerstone and the Mission of ACU, Dr. Richard Beck explores the tensions we face when we live out the “missional impulse.”
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Kristina Campos – Walk in My Shoes
In her talk Walk in My Shoes: 30 Days and Immigration, Dr. Kristina Campos considers how to foster empathy in a world marked by division.
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Jeanene Reese – Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
Every day we are inundated with decisions. Some of our choices seem inconsequential: what we eat for breakfast or how we spend the weekend.
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Randy Harris – Gods, Idols, Terrorists, and Jesus
How you see God determines how you see the world and human beings. Does God create human beings in his/her image, or do we create God in ours?
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John Perkins – Follow Me to Freedom
The book chosen for the 2010 Freshman Common Reading is Follow Me to Freedom: Leading and Following as an Ordinary Radical. The book is a conversation between co-authors Shane Claiborne, a 30 something, and Dr. John Perkins, who is in his eighties. This unlikely duo relate stories that are aimed at “the young who see great visions and the old who dream new dreams” in a world hungry for hope.
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Steven Moore – What is Worldview?
In week 1 of a two-part conversation, Dr. Steven Moore and Dr. Tracy Shilcutt will present What is Worldview?
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Tracy Shilcutt – What is Worldview? part 2
In week 2 of our conversation, Dr. Steven Moore and Dr. Tracy Shilcutt will look more closely at alienation and how it reflects back to worldview.
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Paul Morris – Truth and Knowing
In his talk Philosophy-Lite: Truth and Knowing, Dr. Paul Morris introduces questions central to our study of ways of knowing and the question of truth.
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Caron Gentry – What is Othering?
In this week’s Spotlight, Dr. Caron Gentry introduces a range of disciplinary approaches to thinking about “the Other.”
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Stephen Johnson – I Know a Man Who Lives in a Bus
What is the “missional impulse”? In I Know a Man Who Lives in a Bus: The Mission of God in Living Color, Dr. Stephen Johnson shares the story of his own journey with the people of Buffalo Gap.
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Bill Rankin – Does Technology Unite or Divide Us?
In his presentation Haves and Have Nots: Does Technology Unite or Divide Us? Dr. Bill Rankin will consider how changes in the quantity and access of information are likely to transform the ways we live, work, and communicate.
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ACU Theatre – Mother Teresa is Dead
This fall the ACU Theatre presents its first Cornerstone Production directed by Adam Hester. A cast of ACU students will perform Helen Edmundson’s challenging play Mother Teresa is Dead from November 16-20, with a talk-back discussion with the actors and director each evening following the play.
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Rick Lytle – What is My Calling?
The question of vocation has long been central to liberal education. In his Spotlight, Dr. Rick Lytle will reflect on views of calling: academic, professional, and spiritual.
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Greg Straughn – Ho Do I Know Who I am?
In his Spotlight How Do I Know Who I Am? Dr. Greg Straughn will help connect key threads from Cornerstone to the first of three interdisciplinary courses focused on the Question of Identity.