Arts & Humanities

What does it look like to study religion "objectively" in the classroom while remaining faithful to Christ? The question arises in a number of ways.  Take, for example, the recent viral video Why I Hate Religion but Love Jesus (with almost 20 million hits), and the thoughtful response Does Jesus Hate Religion?

See Pastor Froehlich's review of Bruce Almighty here.

What is Natural Theology and Why Does it Matter?  Come let us reason together! 

Join us at the Chesterton House for a chance to watch "The King's Speech" and engage in a discussion designed to help students reflect critically and Christianly. Steve Froehlich, Pastor of New Life Presbyterian Church and film enthusiast, will be leading us.

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Author of several works in medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics, Stump has served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, and president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. She delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 2002.

MOST (Czech for the Bridge) is a beautiful 30 minute Oscar nominated movie and winner of many prestigious film festivals.

It tells the story of the close relationship between a bridge operator (Vladimir Javorsky) and his young son (Lada Ondrej) and the fateful day they both try to head off an impending rail disaster.

A steam train full of hundreds of passengers are unaware of the danger as they head towards an open drawbridge. When a desperate young woman (Linda Rybova) witnesses an act of virtue beyond her imagination, her life is changed forever.