Past Events

We are launching a seminar for women: open to undergraduates, graduate students, and young professionals in the community on the work of Jane Austen. We will start with an in-depth look at Pride and Prejudice, her most popular novel, as a way of examining male-female relationships, female friendships, courage & other virtues, and the complex task of “reading ourselves” and “reading others” with justice, charity, and truth.

A follow-up to the fall seminar on loneliness, this five-week seminar works through C.S. Lewis’s The Problem of Pain. Topics include the classic problem of evil, namely, if God is all good and all powerful there should not be evil and suffering, so either God does not exist, or God is not good, or God is not all powerful. Other topics include human freedom and evil, the meaning and redemption of suffering (human and animal), and the question of eternal suffering,…

CanaVox is hosting a women's reading group for discussion with like-minded friends on topics ranging from marriage, dating, and friendship to hot-button issues facing the family today, like Transgender Identity. Please join us every other Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. at the Witherspoon Institute. Sweets and pastries (gluten-filled and gluten-free) and tea/coffee are provided with printouts of the readings. For more on what we discuss, see these links to our online syllabus: On the Meaning of Marriage, Cohabitation, and Communication in Marriage. **Suggestions welcome from…

We are launching a seminar for women: open to undergraduates, graduate students, and young professionals in the community on the work of Jane Austen. We will start with an in-depth look at Pride and Prejudice, her most popular novel, as a way of examining male-female relationships, female friendships, courage & other virtues, and the complex task of “reading ourselves” and “reading others” with justice, charity, and truth.