Dr. Pearce Durst AI, Writing, and Integrity November 11, 2025 Friends Conference Room 215 (Champaign Public Library. 200 W Green St, Champaign) The rise of AI presents both opportunities and challenges for Christian scholars, pastors, and leaders. Writing has always been a central practice in seminary education, but what happens when AI tools enter the […]
Dr. Melody Green C. S. Lewis's That Hideous Strength at 80 Years Old Champaign Public Library, Robeson Pavilion, Room A (200 W Green St, Champaign). Even though it was written during WWII, C. S. Lewis’s dystopian/science fiction novel That Hideous Strength explores science, faith, myth, relationships, and community that are in some ways even more […]
Dr. Emily G. Wenneborg October 28, 7:00-8:30 Champaign Public Library, Robeson Pavilion, Room C (200 W Green St, Champaign). Nearly four centuries before the invention of the smartphone, French Catholic thinker Blaise Pascal identified our human tendency to seek distraction and fear boredom. Come learn Pascal’s diagnosis of the real reason for our boredom, and […]
