Veritas Forum - Northwestern University

Veritas Forum

April 7-9, 2010

This past April several student groups at Northwestern hosted two Christian scholars on campus in cooperation with the Veritas Forum. The Veritas Forum is an organization that seeks to help campuses "explore, discuss, engage, inspire, question, and enlarge our view of true life together." The goal of this event was to start a conversation among people of different backgrounds and beliefs about issues of truth and spirituality, and to create an open and accepting atmosphere for that conversation.

On Wednesday, April 7th at 7pm in Alice Millar Chapel, Miroslav Volf discussed "Reconciliation in the Face of Conflict"-- in other words, what forgiveness looks like in a world full of conflict, on both an individual and corporate level, and why its important. On Thursday, April 7th at 7pm in Alice Millar Chapel, Os Guinness's talk, "A World Safe for Diversity Despite Our Deepest Differences," addressed the importance of creating a space in the public square for people of radically divergent religious and ideological perspectives, rather than letting those different perspectives drive us away from each other. Both speakers spoke for thirty minutes, and then opened the floor to questions for another thirty minutes. Additionally, Os Guinness spoke on "The Call: Finding and Fulfilling The Central Purpose of Your Life" on Friday, April 9th at 12pm in Fisk Hall.