Gutenberg College is a place for students who want to think deeply, learn in community, and grow in faith and character. At Preview Days, Gutenberg opens its doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. Please join us for Fall Preview Days. Learn More [...]
CANCELLED Dutch watchmaker Corrie Ten Boom and her family are enjoying a century of business in Haarlem in the 1930s. Yet, every fiber of her faith and character will be tested as the Nazis invade Holland and begin to round up the Jews for deportation. Before long, she finds herself at the center of [...]
Socrates is in prison waiting for his death sentence to be carried out. His friend, Crito, hatches a plan to help him escape, but Socrates hesitates. The question we will investigate in the Great Book Symposium is this: Why? A webinar for K-12 teachers in the private school, the public school, and the [...]
C. S. Lewis endeavored to explain the essence of Christianity to a general audience through a series of radio broadcasts, an endeavor which resulted in Mere Christianity. Though Lewis discusses questions and issues familiar to most Christians, he appeals frequently to every person’s common experience–rather than theological proofs–to explain the faith. Together, we will [...]
At various times throughout the Old Testament, God abandoned the Israelites as a result of their sinfulness and idolatry. In their suffering and despair, their only hope was to cry out to God for salvation, and He, in His mercy, would rescue them. In a penetrating analysis of these days, Jacques Ellul concludes that [...]
King Henry V of England has a sketchy past but is preparing to take on the mantle of kingship to rule over all of England and has his eye on France. Does he become a model leader or does he, like so many figures, succumb to the temptations of power and prestige? In this [...]
“My thoughts are not your thoughts,” saith the Lord. So, if man’s thoughts are not God’s thoughts, then what are our thoughts and where do they come from? In one of C.S. Lewis’s most innovative and penetrating literary works, Screwtape Letters tracks a fictional dialogue between a mentor demon, Screwtape, and his protégé. In this [...]
Starship Troopers is a futuristic young adult novel by Robert Heinlein that raises this question: What does it mean to be a citizen? In this seminar, we will explore this question and others relating to Heinlein’s mid-twentieth-century work. A webinar for K-12 teachers in the private school, the public school, and the homeschool. Maximum [...]
Gutenberg College is a place for students who want to think deeply, learn in community, and grow in faith and character. At Preview Days, Gutenberg opens its doors to high school students and transfer students who are considering Gutenberg’s bachelor’s degree program in liberal arts. Please join us for Spring Preview Days. Learn More [...]
Modern education often presents teachers as specialists tasked with imparting expert knowledge to students. Yet the focus of a specialist in pursuit of imparting facts and information too often becomes overly narrow and overlooks the development of the whole student. This kind of oversight can leave a graduate with major blind spots in his [...]
