Spring Update - Public Gathering Tues. 2/20
Name ideas poll, our next few events, and the Engaging the Culture series at Cornerstone.
Help us name our group!
We do not yet have a name for our little group, but we are making progress in that direction. Please click here for the google form to provide feedback. You do not need to be a regular participant, we are open to the wisdom even of total strangers.
Public Event Tuesday, February 20th, 7pm, USC - Columbia
Next gathering will be a rendezvous open to all, first meeting at the Thomistic Institute at the University of South Carolina (register at the link, it’s free), then retiring to the biergarten at Savage Craft Ale Works in Cayce for open discussion time. (Under-21’s and non-drinkers are welcome.) Update: We’ll likely move indoors given the forecast.
Event details:
Aquinas, the 'Great Theory of Beauty', and Music
A lecture by Prof. Michael Dickson (University of South Carolina)
Tuesday, February 20, 2024 - 7:00 PM 8:00 PM
University of South Carolina - Wardlaw 126
This lecture is free and open to the public. If you can't make it to the lecture, make sure to listen to the recording after it is published on the Thomistic Institute podcast.
If you can’t make the lecture, we will be arriving at Savage Craft sometime about 8:30-8:45 or so.
Upcoming Events
Tuesday, March 5th - Private discussion group, go here to join the all-locals mailing list for location info.
Discussion topic will use the Public Discourse essay “The Dark Kenosis of Medical School” by Kristin Collier as a springboard, but we’ll be looking beyond the medical profession. Some questions to consider:
In your own vocation, have you felt obliged — either tacitly or by explicit instruction — to let go of your own beliefs and values in order to be considered “professional” or otherwise qualified for the work?
How do you as a Christian navigate such environments?
Conversely, has your vocation brought you to places where you are blessed with the freedom to fully proclaim your faith at all times?
What advice would you have for other Christians following in your vocational footsteps?
We will continue with the first and third Tuesday format through March and April, details of the remaining events TBD.
Engaging the Culture Series at Cornerstone Presbyterian
This is an excellent series, worthy of your support:
Sunday, April 7, 2024, At 6:30PM
Cornerstone Presbyterian Church (5637 Bush River Road, Columbia, SC) will host Thomas S. Kidd, Research Professor of Church History and John and Sharon Yeats Endowed Chair of Baptist Studies at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and Senior Research Scholar at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion.
Professor Kidd earned his PhD in History at the University of Notre Dame, where he worked with George Marsden, biographer of Jonathan Edwards. He is the author of numerous books on American religious history including Thomas Jefferson: A Biography of Spirit and Flesh (2022); Who is an Evangelical: The History of a Movement in Crisis (2019); and Benjamin Franklin: The Religious Life of a Founding Father (2017), all from Yale University Press.
Dr. Kidd will speak on the timely and controversial topic: “A Christian America: Popular Myths and Historical Realities.”
Admission is free. Donations accepted. Please forward as you see fit.