Selected Poems
The Christ at the Core Fall Series features co-curricular events throughout the fall semester that highlight key themes of the core curriculum. These multi-disciplinary events allow Wheaton College to discuss the enduring value and significance of using a Christ-centered approach to study the liberal arts.
Character and the Good Life
How do our spiritual habits and character shape our pursuit of the good life?
Explorations of how we are called to good works, the formation of our character, and cultivation of spiritual disciplines for the sake of our communities and our own flourishing.
The Christ at the Core Fall Series features co-curricular events throughout the fall semester that highlight key themes of the core curriculum. These multi-disciplinary events allow Wheaton College to discuss the enduring value and significance of using a Christ-centered approach to study the liberal arts.
- Working Out Our Salvation: Recovering the Protestant Doctrine of Good Works
Sept. 8, Armerding Concert Hall, 7:00pm
Theologian Thomas McCall (Asbury Seminary) considers why American evangelicals need to recover a doctrine of good works for the sake of healthy spiritual formation and effective witness. Co-sponsored by the School of Biblical and Theological Studies and CACE.
- Silence Screening
Sept. 28, Barrows Auditorium, 6:30pm
A screening of Martin Scorsese’s film adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s Silence.
- The Little Way Through the Apocalypse: Walker Percy’s Love in the Ruins
Oct. 4, Barrows Auditorium, 7pm
Literary scholar Jessica Hooten Wilson considers what lessons we can learn about living the good life from Walker Percy’s novel, Love in the Ruins, that explores a fragmented society beset by increasing polarization and division.
- Remembering Emmett Till: Reflections on Race, Society, and the Church
Oct. 25, Armerding Concert Hall, 7:15pm
An evening remembering the legacy and lasting impact of Emmett Till upon the church and the nation featuring Rev. Wheeler Parker, childhood best friend and cousin of the late Emmett Till, and Dr. Dave Tell, scholar of rhetoric and public memory. Sponsored by the Communication Department.