1998 VERITAS FORUM at UC SANTA BARBARA
"Making Sense of It All"
Veritas, or Truth, should be the goal of any educational pursuit. The Veritas Forum is an effort to engage the University in its most fundamental purpose: the pursuit of knowledge.
In 1992, fifteen writers of the book Finding God at Harvard (Zondervan) began the Veritas Forum at Harvard University. Since their inception, Veritas Forums have been held annually at Harvard and have spread to more than fifty universities, involving more than 75,000 students, faculty, and community members as well as featuring a number of well-known scholars and public figures.
Each campus Veritas Forum is an indigenous event, consisting of leadership, vision, administration, and financial resources primarily arising from within the sponsoring campus student group communities. The Veritas Forum at UCSB is jointly and joyfully sponsored by thirteen student groups and the Faculty/Staff Christian Community.
Attendees of the Forum will have the unque opportunity to hear speakers and performers who are intellectually and artistically accomplished, yet able to share their faith in personal, heartfelt, and entertaining ways.
A large part of the Veritas experience is the ability to interact with and question the featured speakers and artists, in order to start a dialogue within the community aimed at encouraging the pursuit of truth. Attendees may find themselves at a workshop on film, a lunch with a world-renowned scientist, or a coffee house sipping mocha and discussing philosophy.
Our purpose in having the Forum is to promote dialogue about Truth and to explore the ultimate questions of life, society, and the human condition, and how they relate to Truth found in Jesus Christ. We genuinely desire that the thinking person, regardless of religious background, will feel welcomed, respected, and challenged to reflect more deeply on the great questions of life. We are all in this search together.
FEATURING:
CURRENT SCHEDULE:
Thursday, February 5, 1998
7:00 PM Opening Ceremony
9:30 - 11:30 PM Coffeehouse with James Sire and Jeffrey Russell
Friday, February 6, 1998
7:30 AM Breakfast with James Sire
10:00 AM - 2 :00 PM Social Action Displays
12:00 PM Jeffrey Russell: "Making Sense of Good and Evil"
7:00 PM Peter Kreeft: "Is Anything Really Right or Wrong?"
10:00 PM Scott Young: "Movies and the Veritas Imagination: Making Sense of Morality" featuring Woody Allen's "Crimes and Misdemeanors"
Saturday, February 7, 1998
8:00 AM Breakfast with Peter Kreeft
9:30 AM Scott Young: Film Workshop
9:30 AM Dave Smith: Surfing Workshop at UCSB Campus Point
9:30 AM Adele Moore: "Searching for Truth in Photography and Modern Art"
10:30 AM Gary Mitchell: Art and Sculpture Display and Workshop
11:30 AM Todd & Marilyn Farley Mime Performance
1:00 PM Todd & Marilyn Farley Mime Workshop
2:00 PM Madeleine L'Engle Writing Workshop
3:00 PM Marguerite Bouraad-Nash: "Reconciliation"
4:00 PM Steve Gross: Music Workshop: "Jeez...More Jeezak?!"
7:30 PM Search for Truth Through Drama
"The Accounts of Luke" with Bruce Kuhn
9:30 -11:30 PM Coffeehouse with Bruce Kuhn and Scott Young
Sunday, February 8, 1998
2:00 PM Madeleine L'Engle: "Search for Truth Through Fantasy"
4:00 PM Worship Service
Monday, February 9, 1998
7:30 AM Breakfast with Henry F. Schaefer III
12:00 PM Henry F. Schaefer III: "Making Sense of Faith and Science"
7:30 PM Debate: William Lane Craig and Garrett Hardin
"Making Sense of Your World View: Christianity vs. Scientific Naturalism"
9:30 -11:30 PM Coffeehouse with Veritas speakers
Tuesday, February 10, 1998
7:30 AM Breakfast with Henry F. Schaefer III and/or William Lane Craig
