Events for August 8, 2025 - November 7, 2023

This critique of email (asynchronous communication) comes not from Luddites but from cutting edge computer scientists and mathematicians. It appears there is a place for synchronous communications. Charley Dewberry is a tutor and the dean at Gutenberg College, a practicing scientist and stream ecologist, and the author of Saving Science: A Critique of Science and [...]

The Enneagram has become one of the most popular “personality assessments” ever, especially in Christian circles. In this Community Class, Nancy Scott will use this book to discuss what the Enneagram is, what it is not, and how we can think critically about our culture’s fascination with it. Nancy Scott, is a marriage and family [...]

Winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction and a New York Times bestseller ever since, Richard Powers's The Overstory is one of those rare novels that achieve both critical and commercial success. In this Community Class, Chris Alderman will consider the following questions: What kinds of topics tend to capture people's imaginations these days, [...]

Why do cell phones cost more in the U.S. than in Europe? In his new book (October 2019), Thomas Philippon discusses the economics of free markets. He explains how markets work and, in the context of the cell phone industry, discusses a number of factors that influence their freedom. He concludes that free markets are [...]