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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Speechless: Controlling Words\, Controlling Minds with Michael Knowles
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our December Distinguished Lecture Series as we hear from Michael Knowles\, Daily Wire contributor and author of the book: Speechless: Controlling Words\, Controlling Minds. This event is hosted in partnership with the Young America’s Foundation. \nOur republic was built upon the ideas of freedom of conscience and free public discourse. However\, over the past few years\, free speech has come under attack. Political correctness\, woke opinions\, and cancel culture silence opposing viewpoints daily. How did we get to this point? And how do we fight to restore our First Amendment rights? \nMichael Knowles will examine how the control over words and ideas leads to direct control on the minds of our fellow citizens. In a time where something you post on social media creates fear of retribution and “cancellation\,” Knowles will discuss how to fight – and win – the war of ideas. \nDistinguished Lecture Series: Speechless: Controlling Words\, Controlling Minds\nMichael Knowles\nMonday\, December 6\, 2021\n7:30pm – 9:00pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave\nLakewood\, CO 80226  \nWatch online here. \nIn-person attendance registration is now closed. Walk-up admission will be granted 15 minutes ahead of event start time\, dependent on seating availability. Seating will be on a first-come\, first-served basis. Overflow seating will be available in the Anschutz amphitheater with a livestream feed.  \nWe are following Jefferson County’s recent health mandate which requires masks in all indoor spaces. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. \nAbout Michael Knowles: \nMichael Knowles is the celebrated host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at the Daily Wire\, “The Book Club” at PragerU\, and “Verdict with Ted Cruz.” In 2017\, Michael published the #1 national bestselling treatise Reasons to Vote for Democrats\, which President Donald Trump hailed as “a great book for your reading enjoyment.” In late 2020\, after an appearance guest-hosting “The Rush Limbaugh Program\,” it was announced that Michael’s daily podcast would be syndicated to terrestrial radio. \nMichael has appeared regularly on Fox News Channel and other major networks\, and his writing has been featured on the Daily Wire\, the American Mind\, Fox News\, and the Daily Caller. Michael is a graduate of Yale University and has lectured on college campuses around the country. \nHosted in Partnership with: \n \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-michael-knowles/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Speechless: Controlling Words\, Controlling Minds with Michael Knowles
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our December Distinguished Lecture Series as we hear from Michael Knowles\, Daily Wire contributor and author of the book: Speechless: Controlling Words\, Controlling Minds. This event is hosted in partnership with the Young America’s Foundation. \nOur republic was built upon the ideas of freedom of conscience and free public discourse. However\, over the past few years\, free speech has come under attack. Political correctness\, woke opinions\, and cancel culture silence opposing viewpoints daily. How did we get to this point? And how do we fight to restore our First Amendment rights? \nMichael Knowles will examine how the control over words and ideas leads to direct control on the minds of our fellow citizens. In a time where something you post on social media creates fear of retribution and “cancellation\,” Knowles will discuss how to fight – and win – the war of ideas. \nDistinguished Lecture Series: Speechless: Controlling Words\, Controlling Minds\nMichael Knowles\nMonday\, December 6\, 2021\n7:30pm – 9:00pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave\nLakewood\, CO 80226  \nWatch online here. \nIn-person attendance registration is now closed. Walk-up admission will be granted 15 minutes ahead of event start time\, dependent on seating availability. Seating will be on a first-come\, first-served basis. Overflow seating will be available in the Anschutz amphitheater with a livestream feed.  \nWe are following Jefferson County’s recent health mandate which requires masks in all indoor spaces. Thank you in advance for your cooperation. \nAbout Michael Knowles: \nMichael Knowles is the celebrated host of “The Michael Knowles Show” at the Daily Wire\, “The Book Club” at PragerU\, and “Verdict with Ted Cruz.” In 2017\, Michael published the #1 national bestselling treatise Reasons to Vote for Democrats\, which President Donald Trump hailed as “a great book for your reading enjoyment.” In late 2020\, after an appearance guest-hosting “The Rush Limbaugh Program\,” it was announced that Michael’s daily podcast would be syndicated to terrestrial radio. \nMichael has appeared regularly on Fox News Channel and other major networks\, and his writing has been featured on the Daily Wire\, the American Mind\, Fox News\, and the Daily Caller. Michael is a graduate of Yale University and has lectured on college campuses around the country. \nHosted in Partnership with: \n \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-michael-knowles-2/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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SUMMARY:Pro-Life Rally for Dobbs Supreme Court Case
DESCRIPTION:Join the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University for a rally in support of the Right to Life prevailing in America’s highest court. \nCould 2022 be the year Roe v. Wade is reversed? \nIn 1973\, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade shook the foundation of the United States. As abortion was effectively protected throughout the U.S.\, many began the long fight to reclaim the Right to Life\, as guaranteed in America’s founding. Now\, the Supreme Court has chosen yet again to hear an abortion case: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. \nIn 2018\, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization challenged Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act\, prohibiting abortions after the fifteenth week of pregnancy except in the cases of a medical emergency. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Dobbs on December 1\, 2021. If decided in favor of Dobbs\, this would give states the authority to limit abortions\, effectively protecting Mississippi’s legislation and encouraging other states to implement similar policies. \nJoin with faith leaders and pro-life leaders as we rally and pray for this historic case! Now is the time to relegate Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history. \nPro-Life Rally for Dobbs Supreme Court Case\nMonday\, November 29\, 2021\n7:300pm – 9:00pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \nSpeakers include: \n\nLori Ann Satriano Arfsten\, Director of Communications and Community Development\, Alternatives Pregnancy Center\nGiuliana Day\, President\, Life Decisions\nLynn Grandon\, Director of Respect Life Denver office at Catholic Charities\, Archdiocese of Denver\nJanaya Fulk\, Colorado Christian University for Life Student Club\nChristine Yeargin\, Founder\, Be Their Village\nJeff Hunt\, Director\, Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University\nDr. Biff Gore\, President of the Board\, Colorado Right to Life\nNicole Hunt\, Life Analyst\, Writer\, and Spokesperson\, Focus on the Family\nAutumn Stroup\, Senior Vice President\, Strategy\, Family Policy Alliance\nJohn Ebel\, President\, Culture of Life Colorado\nRandy Corporon\, Republican National Committeeman for Colorado\nTom Perille MD\, President\, Democrats for Life of Colorado\nLauren Castillo\, Director of Mission Advancement\, Students for Life of America\nJohn Stonestreet\, President\, Colson Center (via video)\n\nOnline Form – Dobbs SCOTUS Rally – 11.29.2021 \nPowered by Formstack\n \n          
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/pro-life-dobbs-rally/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pro-Life Rally for Dobbs Supreme Court Case
DESCRIPTION:Join the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University for a rally in support of the Right to Life prevailing in America’s highest court. \nCould 2022 be the year Roe v. Wade is reversed? \nIn 1973\, the Supreme Court’s landmark ruling in Roe v. Wade shook the foundation of the United States. As abortion was effectively protected throughout the U.S.\, many began the long fight to reclaim the Right to Life\, as guaranteed in America’s founding. Now\, the Supreme Court has chosen yet again to hear an abortion case: Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization. \nIn 2018\, the Jackson Women’s Health Organization challenged Mississippi’s Gestational Age Act\, prohibiting abortions after the fifteenth week of pregnancy except in the cases of a medical emergency. The Supreme Court will hear oral arguments for Dobbs on December 1\, 2021. If decided in favor of Dobbs\, this would give states the authority to limit abortions\, effectively protecting Mississippi’s legislation and encouraging other states to implement similar policies. \nJoin with faith leaders and pro-life leaders as we rally and pray for this historic case! Now is the time to relegate Roe v. Wade to the ash heap of history. \nPro-Life Rally for Dobbs Supreme Court Case\nMonday\, November 29\, 2021\n7:300pm – 9:00pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \nSpeakers include: \n\nLori Ann Satriano Arfsten\, Director of Communications and Community Development\, Alternatives Pregnancy Center\nGiuliana Day\, President\, Life Decisions\nLynn Grandon\, Director of Respect Life Denver office at Catholic Charities\, Archdiocese of Denver\nJanaya Fulk\, Colorado Christian University for Life Student Club\nChristine Yeargin\, Founder\, Be Their Village\nJeff Hunt\, Director\, Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University\nDr. Biff Gore\, President of the Board\, Colorado Right to Life\nNicole Hunt\, Life Analyst\, Writer\, and Spokesperson\, Focus on the Family\nAutumn Stroup\, Senior Vice President\, Strategy\, Family Policy Alliance\nJohn Ebel\, President\, Culture of Life Colorado\nRandy Corporon\, Republican National Committeeman for Colorado\nTom Perille MD\, President\, Democrats for Life of Colorado\nLauren Castillo\, Director of Mission Advancement\, Students for Life of America\nJohn Stonestreet\, President\, Colson Center (via video)\n\nOnline Form – Dobbs SCOTUS Rally – 11.29.2021 \nPowered by Formstack\n \n          
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/pro-life-dobbs-rally-2/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Christianity and Wokeness
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Owen Strachan\, author of Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel – and the Way to Stop It\, for our November Distinguished Lecture Series. \nThe “wokeness” that emerged from the social unrest of 2020 has swept through schools\, businesses\, and even sports. Driven by the radical ideologies of Critical Race Theory and intersectionality\, it has destabilized public and private life—including the Church. \nMany evangelicals have joined the crusade. Gripped by a desire for justice and rightly grieved by past evils like slavery\, many pastors are preaching the woke gospel—identifying “whiteness” (an imaginary concept) with “white supremacy\,” calling bewildered Christians to repent of their supposed guilt for the sins of past generations. \nDr. Owen Strachan will discuss how this is not true justice\, nor is it true Christianity. While wokeness employs biblical vocabulary and concepts\, it is an alternative religion\, far from Christianity in both its methods and its fruit. A potent blend of racism\, paganism\, and grievance\, wokeness encourages “partiality” and undermines the unifying work of the Holy Spirit. However\, there is an antidote to this growing threat facing the church: the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. \nDistinguished Lecture Series: Christianity and Wokeness\nDr. Owen Strachan\nMonday\, November 15\, 2021\n7:30pm – 9:00pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \nAbout Dr. Owen Strachan: \n \nDr. Owen Strachan is Provost and Research Professor of Theology at Grace Bible Theological Seminary in Conway\, Arkansas. He is a Senior Fellow with Family Research Council and the author of numerous books\, including Reenchanting Humanity\, The Pastor as Public Theologian (with Kevin Vanhoozer)\, and Always in God’s Hands: Day by Day in the Company of Jonathan Edwards. Married to Bethany\, he is the father of three children and enjoys rowing\, Western films\, outlaw country\, and Churchill books. \nOnline Form – DL – Jack Posobiec – 10.18.21 – COPY \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-christianity-and-wokeness/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Christianity and Wokeness
DESCRIPTION:Join Dr. Owen Strachan\, author of Christianity and Wokeness: How the Social Justice Movement is Hijacking the Gospel – and the Way to Stop It\, for our November Distinguished Lecture Series. \nThe “wokeness” that emerged from the social unrest of 2020 has swept through schools\, businesses\, and even sports. Driven by the radical ideologies of Critical Race Theory and intersectionality\, it has destabilized public and private life—including the Church. \nMany evangelicals have joined the crusade. Gripped by a desire for justice and rightly grieved by past evils like slavery\, many pastors are preaching the woke gospel—identifying “whiteness” (an imaginary concept) with “white supremacy\,” calling bewildered Christians to repent of their supposed guilt for the sins of past generations. \nDr. Owen Strachan will discuss how this is not true justice\, nor is it true Christianity. While wokeness employs biblical vocabulary and concepts\, it is an alternative religion\, far from Christianity in both its methods and its fruit. A potent blend of racism\, paganism\, and grievance\, wokeness encourages “partiality” and undermines the unifying work of the Holy Spirit. However\, there is an antidote to this growing threat facing the church: the true Gospel of Jesus Christ. \nDistinguished Lecture Series: Christianity and Wokeness\nDr. Owen Strachan\nMonday\, November 15\, 2021\n7:30pm – 9:00pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \nAbout Dr. Owen Strachan: \n \nDr. Owen Strachan is Provost and Research Professor of Theology at Grace Bible Theological Seminary in Conway\, Arkansas. He is a Senior Fellow with Family Research Council and the author of numerous books\, including Reenchanting Humanity\, The Pastor as Public Theologian (with Kevin Vanhoozer)\, and Always in God’s Hands: Day by Day in the Company of Jonathan Edwards. Married to Bethany\, he is the father of three children and enjoys rowing\, Western films\, outlaw country\, and Churchill books. \nOnline Form – DL – Jack Posobiec – 10.18.21 – COPY \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-christianity-and-wokeness-2/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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SUMMARY:Studying Politics in a Time of Crisis: The Politics Program at Colorado Christian University
DESCRIPTION:In a deeply unsettled time\, why study Politics at Colorado Christian University? With war and immigration in the news\, rising threats to religious liberty\, open hostility to a culture of life\, and changing understandings of what it means to be human\, how can believers be trained to actively engage in government? \nHosted in partnership with the CCU Politics Department\, this event brings together nationally recognized public officials\, CCU’s President and faculty\, and successful alumni to provide multiple perspectives on the question: \n\nPolitics as a Christian vocation;\nThe high calling of statesmanship\, supported by Scripture and Christian tradition;\nAnd the study and practice of politics at CCU.\n\nCome hear about Colorado Christian University’s unique approach to studying politics\, which combines a grounding in the liberal arts and the study of classic texts\, thoughtful application of Scripture\, and significant internship opportunities at all levels of government. \nLight refreshments will be provided. \nStudying Politics in a Time of Crisis: The Politics Program at Colorado Christian University\nMonday\, November 1\, 2021\n7:00pm – 8:30pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226 \nWith Keynote Address from Governor Matt Bevin \nMatt Bevin is a husband\, father of nine children\, US Army veteran\, small business owner and recently served as the 62nd Governor of Kentucky. \nAs Governor\, he developed and directed the passage of the most fiscally responsible budgets in Kentucky’s history\, strengthening and stabilizing Kentucky’s financial foundation and future. Through initiatives like “Red Tape Reduction” and “Kentucky Trained\, Kentucky Built”\, he worked to help Kentucky become the center of engineering and manufacturing excellence in America. \nGov. Bevin invested substantial political capital and financial resources in education and workforce development\, pension reform\, defending every single Kentucky life\, reforming foster care and adoption\, creating a healthier Kentucky\, protecting those who protect us\, and creating open and transparent government. \nThroughout his life\, Gov. Bevin has participated in numerous\, off the beaten path adventures such as skydiving\, bungee-jumping\, riding his bicycle across the United States\, running with the bulls in Pamplona and visiting more than 50 countries around the world. \nHe is grateful to be an American. His passionate love for God and country is the driving force behind his personal and professional decisions. \nOnline Form – Politics Event – 11.1.2021 \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/studying-politics-in-a-time-of-crisis/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:Studying Politics in a Time of Crisis: The Politics Program at Colorado Christian University
DESCRIPTION:In a deeply unsettled time\, why study Politics at Colorado Christian University? With war and immigration in the news\, rising threats to religious liberty\, open hostility to a culture of life\, and changing understandings of what it means to be human\, how can believers be trained to actively engage in government? \nHosted in partnership with the CCU Politics Department\, this event brings together nationally recognized public officials\, CCU’s President and faculty\, and successful alumni to provide multiple perspectives on the question: \n\nPolitics as a Christian vocation;\nThe high calling of statesmanship\, supported by Scripture and Christian tradition;\nAnd the study and practice of politics at CCU.\n\nCome hear about Colorado Christian University’s unique approach to studying politics\, which combines a grounding in the liberal arts and the study of classic texts\, thoughtful application of Scripture\, and significant internship opportunities at all levels of government. \nLight refreshments will be provided. \nStudying Politics in a Time of Crisis: The Politics Program at Colorado Christian University\nMonday\, November 1\, 2021\n7:00pm – 8:30pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226 \nWith Keynote Address from Governor Matt Bevin \nMatt Bevin is a husband\, father of nine children\, US Army veteran\, small business owner and recently served as the 62nd Governor of Kentucky. \nAs Governor\, he developed and directed the passage of the most fiscally responsible budgets in Kentucky’s history\, strengthening and stabilizing Kentucky’s financial foundation and future. Through initiatives like “Red Tape Reduction” and “Kentucky Trained\, Kentucky Built”\, he worked to help Kentucky become the center of engineering and manufacturing excellence in America. \nGov. Bevin invested substantial political capital and financial resources in education and workforce development\, pension reform\, defending every single Kentucky life\, reforming foster care and adoption\, creating a healthier Kentucky\, protecting those who protect us\, and creating open and transparent government. \nThroughout his life\, Gov. Bevin has participated in numerous\, off the beaten path adventures such as skydiving\, bungee-jumping\, riding his bicycle across the United States\, running with the bulls in Pamplona and visiting more than 50 countries around the world. \nHe is grateful to be an American. His passionate love for God and country is the driving force behind his personal and professional decisions. \nOnline Form – Politics Event – 11.1.2021 \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/studying-politics-in-a-time-of-crisis-2/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20211018T203000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc
DESCRIPTION:For our October Distinguished Lecture Series\, Jack Posobiec will be discussing his new book The Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc. \nFew in the media have followed Antifa more closely – and have the scars to prove it – than journalist Jack Posobiec. \nFrom infiltrating their 2016 meetings where they planned their attack on Trump’s inauguration to going undercover in Seattle’s CHAZ in 2020\, Posobiec has never backed down from exposing the true nature of Antifa. \nPosobiec will discuss the secret history of this radical anarchist group while integrating his personal encounters with some of its most hardcore and violent members. While few Americans were aware of Antifa’s existence until recently\, it is actually part of a violent revolutionary tradition that dates back more than a hundred years. And\, like its predecessors\, it is driven by an overriding aim: the overthrow of the existing political order and capitalism\, and replacing it with a communist state. \nAntifa saw and seized its chance in 2020. Because it was not brought to heel – indeed\, was encouraged in its violent mayhem by sympathetic city and state governments – it now looms as a greater threat than ever before. \nDistinguished Lecture Series: The Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc\nJack Posobiec\nMonday\, October 18\, 2021\n7:00pm – 8:30pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \nAbout Jack Posobiec: \nJack Posobiec is the Senior Editor of Human Events\, a political news and analysis outlet founded in 1944. Prior to that\, Posobiec served as a Washington\, D.C. correspondent at One America News Network. Posobiec is a veteran intelligence officer of the United States Navy with multiple deployments\, including Guantanamo Bay and East Asia. At Guantanamo Bay\, Posobiec served as a HUMINT (human intelligence) analyst in the interrogation cell. In 2014\, he joined the Office of Naval Intelligence as an officer at the Kennedy Irregular Warfare Center which provided intelligence to Navy Special Warfare and Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. \nPosobiec completed his final deployment in 2016 as the Intelligence Director for Navy Expeditionary Forces Command Pacific – Task Force 75. Task Force 75 provides expeditionary intelligence throughout the Indo-Asia-Pacific region as directed by 7th Fleet Commander. \nPosobiec has written three non-fiction books: Citizens for Trump: The Inside Story of the People’s Movement to Take Back America; 4D Warfare: A Doctrine for a New Generation of Politics; and Antifa: Inside the Black Bloc. In 2019\, Posobiec was awarded a Lincoln Fellowship by the Claremont Institute. Posobiec is also a supporter of Let Them Live\, a nonprofit that saves lives from abortion by supporting women in crisis pregnancies. Posobiec’s life was the inspiration for the graphic novel ‘Agent Poso’ by Chuck Dixon and Brett Smith. \nAfter graduating from Temple University\, Posobiec spent 2 years in China working in international business and learning to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. Originally from the Philadelphia area\, Posobiec now resides in Washington\, D.C. with his wife\, Tanya\, and their two sons. \nOnline Form – DL – Jack Posobiec – 10.18.21 \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/antifa-stories-from-inside-the-black-bloc/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc
DESCRIPTION:For our October Distinguished Lecture Series\, Jack Posobiec will be discussing his new book The Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc. \nFew in the media have followed Antifa more closely – and have the scars to prove it – than journalist Jack Posobiec. \nFrom infiltrating their 2016 meetings where they planned their attack on Trump’s inauguration to going undercover in Seattle’s CHAZ in 2020\, Posobiec has never backed down from exposing the true nature of Antifa. \nPosobiec will discuss the secret history of this radical anarchist group while integrating his personal encounters with some of its most hardcore and violent members. While few Americans were aware of Antifa’s existence until recently\, it is actually part of a violent revolutionary tradition that dates back more than a hundred years. And\, like its predecessors\, it is driven by an overriding aim: the overthrow of the existing political order and capitalism\, and replacing it with a communist state. \nAntifa saw and seized its chance in 2020. Because it was not brought to heel – indeed\, was encouraged in its violent mayhem by sympathetic city and state governments – it now looms as a greater threat than ever before. \nDistinguished Lecture Series: The Antifa: Stories from Inside the Black Bloc\nJack Posobiec\nMonday\, October 18\, 2021\n7:00pm – 8:30pm MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \nAbout Jack Posobiec: \nJack Posobiec is the Senior Editor of Human Events\, a political news and analysis outlet founded in 1944. Prior to that\, Posobiec served as a Washington\, D.C. correspondent at One America News Network. Posobiec is a veteran intelligence officer of the United States Navy with multiple deployments\, including Guantanamo Bay and East Asia. At Guantanamo Bay\, Posobiec served as a HUMINT (human intelligence) analyst in the interrogation cell. In 2014\, he joined the Office of Naval Intelligence as an officer at the Kennedy Irregular Warfare Center which provided intelligence to Navy Special Warfare and Navy Expeditionary Combat Command. \nPosobiec completed his final deployment in 2016 as the Intelligence Director for Navy Expeditionary Forces Command Pacific – Task Force 75. Task Force 75 provides expeditionary intelligence throughout the Indo-Asia-Pacific region as directed by 7th Fleet Commander. \nPosobiec has written three non-fiction books: Citizens for Trump: The Inside Story of the People’s Movement to Take Back America; 4D Warfare: A Doctrine for a New Generation of Politics; and Antifa: Inside the Black Bloc. In 2019\, Posobiec was awarded a Lincoln Fellowship by the Claremont Institute. Posobiec is also a supporter of Let Them Live\, a nonprofit that saves lives from abortion by supporting women in crisis pregnancies. Posobiec’s life was the inspiration for the graphic novel ‘Agent Poso’ by Chuck Dixon and Brett Smith. \nAfter graduating from Temple University\, Posobiec spent 2 years in China working in international business and learning to speak fluent Mandarin Chinese. Originally from the Philadelphia area\, Posobiec now resides in Washington\, D.C. with his wife\, Tanya\, and their two sons. \nOnline Form – DL – Jack Posobiec – 10.18.21 \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/antifa-stories-from-inside-the-black-bloc-2/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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SUMMARY:Movie Screening: "God's Not Dead: We the People"
DESCRIPTION:The God’s Not Dead series continues in “God’s Not Dead: We the People\,” as Reverend Dave finds himself at the defense of a group of Christian homeschooling families after they receive an impromptu inspection by a progressive\, local government official – who doesn’t like what she finds. Believing that the children are receiving an inferior education compared to their public school counterparts\, and potentially being unfairly indoctrinated at a young age by their Bible-believing parents\, the families are ordered to return their children to the public school system\, or else face exorbitant fines and contempt of court. \nTaken aback by the interference of the government\, and believing that their right to educate their own children as a freedom worth fighting for\, the resistant families\, along with Reverend Dave\, are invited to Washington to testify in a landmark congressional hearing that will determine the future of public (and private) education in our country for years to come. \nTicket donations are non-refundable. Limited seating. \nFree for CCU students with a valid ID number. \nTuesday\, October 5\, 2021\n7:00 pm\nCentury 16 Bel Mar\n440 S. Teller St.\nLakewood\, CO 80226
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/movie-screening-gods-not-dead-we-the-people/
LOCATION:Century 16 Bel Mar & XD\, 440 South Teller Street\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:Movie Screening: "God's Not Dead: We the People"
DESCRIPTION:The God’s Not Dead series continues in “God’s Not Dead: We the People\,” as Reverend Dave finds himself at the defense of a group of Christian homeschooling families after they receive an impromptu inspection by a progressive\, local government official – who doesn’t like what she finds. Believing that the children are receiving an inferior education compared to their public school counterparts\, and potentially being unfairly indoctrinated at a young age by their Bible-believing parents\, the families are ordered to return their children to the public school system\, or else face exorbitant fines and contempt of court. \nTaken aback by the interference of the government\, and believing that their right to educate their own children as a freedom worth fighting for\, the resistant families\, along with Reverend Dave\, are invited to Washington to testify in a landmark congressional hearing that will determine the future of public (and private) education in our country for years to come. \nTicket donations are non-refundable. Limited seating. \nFree for CCU students with a valid ID number. \nTuesday\, October 5\, 2021\n7:00 pm\nCentury 16 Bel Mar\n440 S. Teller St.\nLakewood\, CO 80226
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/movie-screening-gods-not-dead-we-the-people-2/
LOCATION:Century 16 Bel Mar & XD\, 440 South Teller Street\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20210910T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210910T113000
DTSTAMP:20260501T053920
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SUMMARY:20th Anniversary of 9/11 and Legacy of the Afghan War
DESCRIPTION:On September 11\, 2001\, terror unfolded in the sky and came to a devastating end at the World Trade Center\, the Pentagon\, and a field near Shanksville\, PA. That day will forever be etched in the minds of those who witnessed those horrific images as they occurred in real time. In the face of destruction\, American heroism and patriotism united the country to fight terrorism but also to begin the healing process. \nTwenty years later\, the nation is shocked again by headlines about the fall of Afghanistan. Two decades of war and efforts to bring stability and human rights to the Afghans stopped in a matter of days. Thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed during the withdrawal. As Americans come to grips with the horrifying news of the last few weeks\, many question whether the effort was worth the cost. \nJoin the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University for a commemorative service as we remember the lives lost\, honor the heroes of 9/11\, and discuss the Legacy of the Afghan War for America and the World. \n9/11 Memorial and the Legacy of Afghanistan for the United States and the World\nDr. Kiron K. Skinner\nFriday\, September 10\, 2021\n10:00am – 11:30am MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \n Dr. Kiron K. Skinner will be joining us via zoom for the event. She is the Visiting Fellow\, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation. From September 2018 to August 2019\, Skinner served as Director of Policy Planning and Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the U.S. Department of State\, providing essential long-term\, high-level guidance and competitive thinking. \nIn August 2019\, Skinner returned to Carnegie Mellon University as the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics and Director of the Institute of Politics and Strategy\, home for the study of international politics at the university. \nSkinner’s government and public service includes membership on the U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board (2001–07 and 2017-18); the Eisenhower Commission’s Legacy Committee of Historians (2002-03); the Chief of Naval Operations’ (CNO) Executive Panel (2004–2015); the National Academies’ Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security (2009–11); and the National Security Education Board (2004–11). \nSkinner holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees from Spelman College and Sacramento City College. \nOnline Form – 9/11 Memorial – 2021 \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/20th-anniversary-of-9-11/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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SUMMARY:20th Anniversary of 9/11 and Legacy of the Afghan War
DESCRIPTION:On September 11\, 2001\, terror unfolded in the sky and came to a devastating end at the World Trade Center\, the Pentagon\, and a field near Shanksville\, PA. That day will forever be etched in the minds of those who witnessed those horrific images as they occurred in real time. In the face of destruction\, American heroism and patriotism united the country to fight terrorism but also to begin the healing process. \nTwenty years later\, the nation is shocked again by headlines about the fall of Afghanistan. Two decades of war and efforts to bring stability and human rights to the Afghans stopped in a matter of days. Thirteen U.S. soldiers were killed during the withdrawal. As Americans come to grips with the horrifying news of the last few weeks\, many question whether the effort was worth the cost. \nJoin the Centennial Institute at Colorado Christian University for a commemorative service as we remember the lives lost\, honor the heroes of 9/11\, and discuss the Legacy of the Afghan War for America and the World. \n9/11 Memorial and the Legacy of Afghanistan for the United States and the World\nDr. Kiron K. Skinner\nFriday\, September 10\, 2021\n10:00am – 11:30am MT\nAnschutz Great Room\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226\nRegister below to attend in-person or watch online here. \n Dr. Kiron K. Skinner will be joining us via zoom for the event. She is the Visiting Fellow\, Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for National Security and Foreign Policy at the Heritage Foundation. From September 2018 to August 2019\, Skinner served as Director of Policy Planning and Senior Adviser to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo at the U.S. Department of State\, providing essential long-term\, high-level guidance and competitive thinking. \nIn August 2019\, Skinner returned to Carnegie Mellon University as the Taube Professor of International Relations and Politics and Director of the Institute of Politics and Strategy\, home for the study of international politics at the university. \nSkinner’s government and public service includes membership on the U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board (2001–07 and 2017-18); the Eisenhower Commission’s Legacy Committee of Historians (2002-03); the Chief of Naval Operations’ (CNO) Executive Panel (2004–2015); the National Academies’ Committee on Behavioral and Social Science Research to Improve Intelligence Analysis for National Security (2009–11); and the National Security Education Board (2004–11). \nSkinner holds MA and Ph.D. degrees in political science from Harvard University and undergraduate degrees from Spelman College and Sacramento City College. \nOnline Form – 9/11 Memorial – 2021 \nPowered by Formstack
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/20th-anniversary-of-9-11-2/
LOCATION:Fran & Larry Donnithorne Great Hall at Anschutz Student Center\, 8787 W. Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210912
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SUMMARY:9/11 Flag Memorial
DESCRIPTION:On September 11\, 2001\, the United States experienced one of the most horrific acts of terrorism to happen on our shores. To memorialize the lives lost in the World Trade Center\, the Pentagon\, and Flight 93\, we will be placing 2\,996 flags (one flag for each life lost) in front of Leprino Hall. It will be on display on September 10 – 11. \nMay we never forget.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/9-11-flag-memorial/
LOCATION:Lawn outside Leprino Hall\, 8787 W Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20210910
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20210912
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SUMMARY:9/11 Flag Memorial
DESCRIPTION:On September 11\, 2001\, the United States experienced one of the most horrific acts of terrorism to happen on our shores. To memorialize the lives lost in the World Trade Center\, the Pentagon\, and Flight 93\, we will be placing 2\,996 flags (one flag for each life lost) in front of Leprino Hall. It will be on display on September 10 – 11. \nMay we never forget.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/9-11-flag-memorial-2/
LOCATION:Lawn outside Leprino Hall\, 8787 W Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210419T203000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court
DESCRIPTION:Ilya Shapiro\, director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute\, will lecture on his latest book\, Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court. \nPolitics have always intruded on Supreme Court appointments. But although the Framers would recognize the way justices are nominated and confirmed today\, something is different. Why have appointments to the high court become one of the most explosive features of our system of government? \nAs Ilya Shapiro makes clear in Supreme Disorder\, this problem is part of a larger phenomenon. As government has grown\, its laws reaching even further into our lives\, the courts that interpret those laws have become enormously powerful. If we fight over each new appointment as though everything were at stake\, it’s because it is. \nWhen decades of constitutional corruption have left us subject to an all-powerful tribunal\, passions are sure to flare on the infrequent occasions when the political system has an opportunity to shape it. And so we find the process of judicial appointments verging on dysfunction. \nShapiro weighs the many proposals for reform\, from the modest (term limits) to the radical (court-packing)\, but shows that there can be no quick fix for a judicial system suffering a crisis of legitimacy. And in the end\, the only measure of the Court’s legitimacy that matters is the extent to which it maintains\, or rebalances\, our constitutional order. \nMonday\, April 19\, 2021\n7:00 pm MT – 8:30 pm MT\nWatch here: http://youtube.com/centennialinstitute \n[fusion_title title_type=”text” rotation_effect=”bounceIn” display_time=”1200″ highlight_effect=”circle” loop_animation=”off” highlight_width=”9″ highlight_top_margin=”0″ before_text=”” rotation_text=”” highlight_text=”” after_text=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility\,medium-visibility\,large-visibility” sticky_display=”normal\,sticky” class=”” id=”” content_align_medium=”” content_align_small=”” content_align=”left” size=”1″ font_size=”” animated_font_size=”” fusion_font_family_title_font=”” fusion_font_variant_title_font=”” line_height=”” letter_spacing=”” text_shadow=”no” text_shadow_vertical=”” text_shadow_horizontal=”” text_shadow_blur=”0″ text_shadow_color=”” margin_top_medium=”” margin_bottom_medium=”” margin_top_small=”” margin_bottom_small=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” margin_top_mobile=”” margin_bottom_mobile=”” text_color=”” animated_text_color=”” highlight_color=”” style_type=”default” sep_color=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] \nAbout Ilya Shapiro \n[/fusion_title] \nIlya Shapiro is the director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato\, he was a special assistant/​adviser to the Multi‐​National Force in Iraq on rule‐​of‐​law issues and practiced at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. \nShapiro is the author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (2020)\, co‐​author of Religious Liberties for Corporations? Hobby Lobby\, the Affordable Care Act\, and the Constitution (2014)\, and editor of 11 volumes of the Cato Supreme Court Review (2008–18). He has contributed to a variety of academic\, popular\, and professional publications\, including the Wall Street Journal\, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy\, Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, USA Today\, National Review\, and New York Times Online. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets\, is a legal consultant to CBS News\, and once appeared on the Colbert Report. \nShapiro has testified before Congress and state legislatures and has filed more than 300 amicus curiae “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court\, including one that The Green Bag selected for its “Exemplary Legal Writing” collection. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society\, was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institute and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute\, and has been an adjunct law professor at the George Washington University and University of Mississippi. He is also the chairman of the board of advisors of the Mississippi Justice Institute\, a barrister in the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court\, and a member of the Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 2015\, National Law Journal named him to its 40 under 40 list of “rising stars.” \nBefore entering private practice\, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds an AB from Princeton University\, an MSc from the London School of Economics\, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow).
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-supreme-disorder-judicial-nominations-and-the-politics-of-americas-highest-court/
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20210419T203000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America's Highest Court
DESCRIPTION:Ilya Shapiro\, director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute\, will lecture on his latest book\, Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court. \nPolitics have always intruded on Supreme Court appointments. But although the Framers would recognize the way justices are nominated and confirmed today\, something is different. Why have appointments to the high court become one of the most explosive features of our system of government? \nAs Ilya Shapiro makes clear in Supreme Disorder\, this problem is part of a larger phenomenon. As government has grown\, its laws reaching even further into our lives\, the courts that interpret those laws have become enormously powerful. If we fight over each new appointment as though everything were at stake\, it’s because it is. \nWhen decades of constitutional corruption have left us subject to an all-powerful tribunal\, passions are sure to flare on the infrequent occasions when the political system has an opportunity to shape it. And so we find the process of judicial appointments verging on dysfunction. \nShapiro weighs the many proposals for reform\, from the modest (term limits) to the radical (court-packing)\, but shows that there can be no quick fix for a judicial system suffering a crisis of legitimacy. And in the end\, the only measure of the Court’s legitimacy that matters is the extent to which it maintains\, or rebalances\, our constitutional order. \nMonday\, April 19\, 2021\n7:00 pm MT – 8:30 pm MT\nWatch here: http://youtube.com/centennialinstitute \n[fusion_title title_type=”text” rotation_effect=”bounceIn” display_time=”1200″ highlight_effect=”circle” loop_animation=”off” highlight_width=”9″ highlight_top_margin=”0″ before_text=”” rotation_text=”” highlight_text=”” after_text=”” hide_on_mobile=”small-visibility\,medium-visibility\,large-visibility” sticky_display=”normal\,sticky” class=”” id=”” content_align_medium=”” content_align_small=”” content_align=”left” size=”1″ font_size=”” animated_font_size=”” fusion_font_family_title_font=”” fusion_font_variant_title_font=”” line_height=”” letter_spacing=”” text_shadow=”no” text_shadow_vertical=”” text_shadow_horizontal=”” text_shadow_blur=”0″ text_shadow_color=”” margin_top_medium=”” margin_bottom_medium=”” margin_top_small=”” margin_bottom_small=”” margin_top=”” margin_bottom=”” margin_top_mobile=”” margin_bottom_mobile=”” text_color=”” animated_text_color=”” highlight_color=”” style_type=”default” sep_color=”” animation_type=”” animation_direction=”left” animation_speed=”0.3″ animation_offset=””] \nAbout Ilya Shapiro \n[/fusion_title] \nIlya Shapiro is the director of the Robert A. Levy Center for Constitutional Studies at the Cato Institute and publisher of the Cato Supreme Court Review. Before joining Cato\, he was a special assistant/​adviser to the Multi‐​National Force in Iraq on rule‐​of‐​law issues and practiced at Patton Boggs and Cleary Gottlieb. \nShapiro is the author of Supreme Disorder: Judicial Nominations and the Politics of America’s Highest Court (2020)\, co‐​author of Religious Liberties for Corporations? Hobby Lobby\, the Affordable Care Act\, and the Constitution (2014)\, and editor of 11 volumes of the Cato Supreme Court Review (2008–18). He has contributed to a variety of academic\, popular\, and professional publications\, including the Wall Street Journal\, Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy\, Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, USA Today\, National Review\, and New York Times Online. He also regularly provides commentary for various media outlets\, is a legal consultant to CBS News\, and once appeared on the Colbert Report. \nShapiro has testified before Congress and state legislatures and has filed more than 300 amicus curiae “friend of the court” briefs in the Supreme Court\, including one that The Green Bag selected for its “Exemplary Legal Writing” collection. He lectures regularly on behalf of the Federalist Society\, was an inaugural Washington Fellow at the National Review Institute and a Lincoln Fellow at the Claremont Institute\, and has been an adjunct law professor at the George Washington University and University of Mississippi. He is also the chairman of the board of advisors of the Mississippi Justice Institute\, a barrister in the Edward Coke Appellate Inn of Court\, and a member of the Virginia Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. In 2015\, National Law Journal named him to its 40 under 40 list of “rising stars.” \nBefore entering private practice\, Shapiro clerked for Judge E. Grady Jolly of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. He holds an AB from Princeton University\, an MSc from the London School of Economics\, and a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (where he became a Tony Patiño Fellow).
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-supreme-disorder-judicial-nominations-and-the-politics-of-americas-highest-court-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture: COVID-19 Didn't Break the Public School System. It Simply Exposed the Problems that Already Existed
DESCRIPTION:The pandemic saw many parents re-evaluating their children’s education. As neighborhood schools stayed shut and forced online education\, parents looked for additional opportunities with charter\, private\, homeschooling\, and even pod schooling options. Did the pandemic forever change public education in America? What did COVID-19 expose about public education? What can we do to improve educational options for America’s families? Join Dr. Corey DeAngelis\, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation\, to discuss COVID-19 and our public school system. \nMonday\, March 22\, 2021\n7:00 pm MT – 8:30 pm MT\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/c/CentennialInstituteCCU \nCorey DeAngelis\, EDU Reform PHd Student\, Coehp. \nAbout Dr. Corey DeAngelis \nCorey DeAngelis is an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute\, the director of school choice at Reason Foundation\, and the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute. He was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work on education policy and received the Buckley Award from America’s Future in 2020. \nHis research primarily focuses on the effects of school choice programs on non‐​academic outcomes such as criminal activity\, character skills\, mental health\, and political participation. He has authored or co‐​authored over 40 journal articles\, book chapters\, and reports on education policy\, and he is the co‐​editor of School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom. \nHis research has been published in peer‐​reviewed academic journals such as Social Science Quarterly\, School Effectiveness and School Improvement\, Educational Review\, Educational Research and Evaluation\, and Peabody Journal of Education. His work has also been published in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal\, USA Today\, New York Post\, and National Review. \nCorey received his Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Arkansas. He additionally holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-covid-19-didnt-break-the-public-school-system-it-simply-exposed-the-problems-that-already-existed/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Centennial Institute":MAILTO:centennial@ccu.edu
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture: COVID-19 Didn't Break the Public School System. It Simply Exposed the Problems that Already Existed
DESCRIPTION:The pandemic saw many parents re-evaluating their children’s education. As neighborhood schools stayed shut and forced online education\, parents looked for additional opportunities with charter\, private\, homeschooling\, and even pod schooling options. Did the pandemic forever change public education in America? What did COVID-19 expose about public education? What can we do to improve educational options for America’s families? Join Dr. Corey DeAngelis\, Director of School Choice at the Reason Foundation\, to discuss COVID-19 and our public school system. \nMonday\, March 22\, 2021\n7:00 pm MT – 8:30 pm MT\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/c/CentennialInstituteCCU \nCorey DeAngelis\, EDU Reform PHd Student\, Coehp. \nAbout Dr. Corey DeAngelis \nCorey DeAngelis is an adjunct scholar at Cato Institute\, the director of school choice at Reason Foundation\, and the executive director at Educational Freedom Institute. He was named on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list for his work on education policy and received the Buckley Award from America’s Future in 2020. \nHis research primarily focuses on the effects of school choice programs on non‐​academic outcomes such as criminal activity\, character skills\, mental health\, and political participation. He has authored or co‐​authored over 40 journal articles\, book chapters\, and reports on education policy\, and he is the co‐​editor of School Choice Myths: Setting the Record Straight on Education Freedom. \nHis research has been published in peer‐​reviewed academic journals such as Social Science Quarterly\, School Effectiveness and School Improvement\, Educational Review\, Educational Research and Evaluation\, and Peabody Journal of Education. His work has also been published in outlets such as The Wall Street Journal\, USA Today\, New York Post\, and National Review. \nCorey received his Ph.D. in Education Policy from the University of Arkansas. He additionally holds a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Texas at San Antonio.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-covid-19-didnt-break-the-public-school-system-it-simply-exposed-the-problems-that-already-existed-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
DESCRIPTION:Join Abigail Shrier\, author of the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters\, for our February Distinguished Lecture series. \nUntil just a few years ago\, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population\, emerged in early childhood\, and afflicted males almost exclusively. \nBut today whole groups of female friends in colleges\, high schools\, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” \nUnsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. \nAbigail Shrier\, a writer for the Wall Street Journal\, has dug deep into the trans epidemic\, talking to the girls\, their agonized parents\, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions\, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. \nComing out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status\, Shrier finds\, but once they take the first steps of transition\, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. \nA generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path. \nMonday\, February 15\, 2021\n7:00pm – 8:30pm MT\nWatch here: https://www.youtube.com/c/CentennialInstituteCCU \nAbout Abigail Shrier\nAbigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Columbia College\, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; the University of Oxford; and Yale Law School. She lives in Los Angeles\, CA. \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Centennial Institute":MAILTO:centennial@ccu.edu
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters
DESCRIPTION:Join Abigail Shrier\, author of the book Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters\, for our February Distinguished Lecture series. \nUntil just a few years ago\, gender dysphoria—severe discomfort in one’s biological sex—was vanishingly rare. It was typically found in less than .01 percent of the population\, emerged in early childhood\, and afflicted males almost exclusively. \nBut today whole groups of female friends in colleges\, high schools\, and even middle schools across the country are coming out as “transgender.” These are girls who had never experienced any discomfort in their biological sex until they heard a coming-out story from a speaker at a school assembly or discovered the internet community of trans “influencers.” \nUnsuspecting parents are awakening to find their daughters in thrall to hip trans YouTube stars and “gender-affirming” educators and therapists who push life-changing interventions on young girls—including medically unnecessary double mastectomies and puberty blockers that can cause permanent infertility. \nAbigail Shrier\, a writer for the Wall Street Journal\, has dug deep into the trans epidemic\, talking to the girls\, their agonized parents\, and the counselors and doctors who enable gender transitions\, as well as to “detransitioners”—young women who bitterly regret what they have done to themselves. \nComing out as transgender immediately boosts these girls’ social status\, Shrier finds\, but once they take the first steps of transition\, it is not easy to walk back. She offers urgently needed advice about how parents can protect their daughters. \nA generation of girls is at risk. Abigail Shrier’s essential book will help you understand what the trans craze is and how you can inoculate your child against it—or how to retrieve her from this dangerous path. \nMonday\, February 15\, 2021\n7:00pm – 8:30pm MT\nWatch here: https://www.youtube.com/c/CentennialInstituteCCU \nAbout Abigail Shrier\nAbigail Shrier is a writer for the Wall Street Journal. She is a graduate of Columbia College\, where she received the Euretta J. Kellett Fellowship; the University of Oxford; and Yale Law School. She lives in Los Angeles\, CA. \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-irreversible-damage-the-transgender-craze-seducing-our-daughters-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
ORGANIZER;CN="Centennial Institute":MAILTO:centennial@ccu.edu
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SUMMARY:President's Lecture Series: The Life of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
DESCRIPTION:In observance of President’s Day\, Dr. Mark Grotelueschen will speak on the life of General Dwight Eisenhower\, the 34th president of the United States. General Eisenhower also served as the President of Columbia College\, Chief of Staff of the Army\, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He was responsible for planning the successful invasion of Normandy. \nAs a military historian\, Dr. Groteleuschen is imminently qualified to speak about President Eisenhower’s spiritual life and the overall importance of his service to our country. \nWatch online here: https://www.ccu.edu/events/presidents-events/lecture-series/ \nAbout Dr. Mark Grotelueschen: \nMark E. Grotelueschen\, PhD\, teaches strategic studies and serves as the Assistant Head of Academics as well as the Chief of Majors Academics in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs\, Colorado. He previously served as Professor of History while holding a Senior Military Faculty position in the Department of History. \nDuring more than a decade of teaching at the Air Force Academy he has taught a wide range of courses covering strategy\, military thought\, history\, statesmanship\, and area studies. He has previously served as the chief of the Military History division\, the chair of the Academy’s African Area Studies Group\, and as the Academy’s Faculty Representative for the national Truman Scholarship program. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Academy Educator Award\, the McDermott Award for Research Excellence in the Humanities\, and the Orrison Award for cadet advising and mentoring. \nA 27 year Air Force veteran and former aircraft maintenance officer\, he worked directly with many different types of aircraft (A-10\, C-12\, C-17\, C-130\, E-3\, F-16\, KC-10\, KC-135\, RQ-4\, and U-2)\, and commanded the 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Operations Squadron at Al Dhafra Air Base\, UAE\, in 2004-2005. Dr Grotelueschen also served as the Deputy Chief of Engagement Integration in the Strategy\, Plans\, and Programs Directorate (A5) at US Air Forces Africa\, Ramstein AB\, Germany. He deployed as a United Nations peacekeeper in the United Nations Mission in Liberia\, where he worked in the mission’s Joint Logistics Operations Centre and helped plan and execute the successful national elections there in 2011. \nHe graduated with Academic Distinction from the USAF Academy\, earned an MA in Military and Diplomatic History from the University of Calgary\, and holds a PhD in History from Texas A&M University. He is the author or editor of many articles and books\, including The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I (Cambridge\, 2007)\, which has been selected repeatedly by multiple US Army Chiefs of Staff for their Professional Reading Lists. Most recently he authored Into the Fight: April-June 1918 for the US Army Center of Military History’s Campaigns of World War I series.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/presidents-lecture-series-the-life-of-gen-dwight-d-eisenhower/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Centennial Institute":MAILTO:centennial@ccu.edu
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SUMMARY:President's Lecture Series: The Life of Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower
DESCRIPTION:In observance of President’s Day\, Dr. Mark Grotelueschen will speak on the life of General Dwight Eisenhower\, the 34th president of the United States. General Eisenhower also served as the President of Columbia College\, Chief of Staff of the Army\, and Supreme Allied Commander Europe. He was responsible for planning the successful invasion of Normandy. \nAs a military historian\, Dr. Groteleuschen is imminently qualified to speak about President Eisenhower’s spiritual life and the overall importance of his service to our country. \nWatch online here: https://www.ccu.edu/events/presidents-events/lecture-series/ \nAbout Dr. Mark Grotelueschen: \nMark E. Grotelueschen\, PhD\, teaches strategic studies and serves as the Assistant Head of Academics as well as the Chief of Majors Academics in the Department of Military and Strategic Studies at the U.S. Air Force Academy near Colorado Springs\, Colorado. He previously served as Professor of History while holding a Senior Military Faculty position in the Department of History. \nDuring more than a decade of teaching at the Air Force Academy he has taught a wide range of courses covering strategy\, military thought\, history\, statesmanship\, and area studies. He has previously served as the chief of the Military History division\, the chair of the Academy’s African Area Studies Group\, and as the Academy’s Faculty Representative for the national Truman Scholarship program. He is the recipient of the Outstanding Academy Educator Award\, the McDermott Award for Research Excellence in the Humanities\, and the Orrison Award for cadet advising and mentoring. \nA 27 year Air Force veteran and former aircraft maintenance officer\, he worked directly with many different types of aircraft (A-10\, C-12\, C-17\, C-130\, E-3\, F-16\, KC-10\, KC-135\, RQ-4\, and U-2)\, and commanded the 380th Expeditionary Maintenance Operations Squadron at Al Dhafra Air Base\, UAE\, in 2004-2005. Dr Grotelueschen also served as the Deputy Chief of Engagement Integration in the Strategy\, Plans\, and Programs Directorate (A5) at US Air Forces Africa\, Ramstein AB\, Germany. He deployed as a United Nations peacekeeper in the United Nations Mission in Liberia\, where he worked in the mission’s Joint Logistics Operations Centre and helped plan and execute the successful national elections there in 2011. \nHe graduated with Academic Distinction from the USAF Academy\, earned an MA in Military and Diplomatic History from the University of Calgary\, and holds a PhD in History from Texas A&M University. He is the author or editor of many articles and books\, including The AEF Way of War: The American Army and Combat in World War I (Cambridge\, 2007)\, which has been selected repeatedly by multiple US Army Chiefs of Staff for their Professional Reading Lists. Most recently he authored Into the Fight: April-June 1918 for the US Army Center of Military History’s Campaigns of World War I series.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/presidents-lecture-series-the-life-of-gen-dwight-d-eisenhower-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
ORGANIZER;CN="Centennial Institute":MAILTO:centennial@ccu.edu
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccines
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 vaccine has raised ethical questions. During our January Distinguished Lecture Series\, Dr. Ryan Anderson\, founder and editor in chief of Public Discourse\, explores many of these questions. Is COVID-19 vaccine developed from cell lines derived from an aborted fetus? If so\, should a citizen of conscience who is opposed to abortion avail herself of it to protect herself and her loved ones during this time of pandemic? What are other ethical implications around vaccines? Should governments make vaccinations mandatory? Could businesses refuse service without a vaccine “passport?” Colorado has mandated that a 22-year-old\, healthy\, “frontline journalist” receive the vaccines before a 64-year-old with lung problems. Is this vaccine distribution plan ethical? What is the government’s ethical role in creating\, researching\, informing\, distributing\, and mandating vaccinations? \nDistinguished Lecture Series: Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccines\nDr. Ryan Anderson\nWednesday\, January 13\, 2021\n6:30 pm MT\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/c/CentennialInstituteCCU  \nAbout Dr. Ryan Anderson \nRyan T. Anderson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse. He is also the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. \nHe is the author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment and Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom. He is the co-author of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination\, and the co-editor of A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from “The Review of Politics.” \nAnderson’s research has been cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices\, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas\, in two Supreme Court cases. \nHe received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University\, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude\, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled: “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights.” \nAnderson has made appearances on ABC\, CNN\, CNBC\, MSNBC\, and Fox News. His work has been published by the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press\, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy\, the Harvard Health Policy Review\, the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy\, the Weekly Standard\, and National Review. \nHe is the John Paul II Teaching Fellow in Social Thought at the University of Dallas\, an adjunct professor of philosophy and political science at Christendom College\, a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University\, a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America\, and a Visiting Fellow at the Veritas Center at Franciscan University. \nFollow him on Twitter: @RyanTAnd For his latest essays and videos\, follow his public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RyanTAndersonPhD
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-ethics-of-covid-19-vaccines/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccines
DESCRIPTION:The COVID-19 vaccine has raised ethical questions. During our January Distinguished Lecture Series\, Dr. Ryan Anderson\, founder and editor in chief of Public Discourse\, explores many of these questions. Is COVID-19 vaccine developed from cell lines derived from an aborted fetus? If so\, should a citizen of conscience who is opposed to abortion avail herself of it to protect herself and her loved ones during this time of pandemic? What are other ethical implications around vaccines? Should governments make vaccinations mandatory? Could businesses refuse service without a vaccine “passport?” Colorado has mandated that a 22-year-old\, healthy\, “frontline journalist” receive the vaccines before a 64-year-old with lung problems. Is this vaccine distribution plan ethical? What is the government’s ethical role in creating\, researching\, informing\, distributing\, and mandating vaccinations? \nDistinguished Lecture Series: Ethics of COVID-19 Vaccines\nDr. Ryan Anderson\nWednesday\, January 13\, 2021\n6:30 pm MT\nWatch: https://www.youtube.com/c/CentennialInstituteCCU  \nAbout Dr. Ryan Anderson \nRyan T. Anderson is Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Public Discourse. He is also the William E. Simon Senior Research Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. \nHe is the author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment and Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom. He is the co-author of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination\, and the co-editor of A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from “The Review of Politics.” \nAnderson’s research has been cited by two U.S. Supreme Court justices\, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas\, in two Supreme Court cases. \nHe received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University\, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude\, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation was titled: “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights.” \nAnderson has made appearances on ABC\, CNN\, CNBC\, MSNBC\, and Fox News. His work has been published by the New York Times\, the Washington Post\, the Wall Street Journal\, Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press\, the Harvard Journal of Law and Public Policy\, the Harvard Health Policy Review\, the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy\, the Weekly Standard\, and National Review. \nHe is the John Paul II Teaching Fellow in Social Thought at the University of Dallas\, an adjunct professor of philosophy and political science at Christendom College\, a member of the James Madison Society at Princeton University\, a Fellow of the Institute for Human Ecology at the Catholic University of America\, and a Visiting Fellow at the Veritas Center at Franciscan University. \nFollow him on Twitter: @RyanTAnd For his latest essays and videos\, follow his public Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/RyanTAndersonPhD
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-ethics-of-covid-19-vaccines-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Issue Forums
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20201116T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20201116T203000
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. John Eastman\, Future Conservatism in America
DESCRIPTION:What does Trump’s Presidency Portend for the Future of Conservatism in America? \nPresident Trump really upset the status quo in D.C. If court challenges go his way\, he will continue to do so for another 4 years\, but even if not\, his presidency has had a profound impact on America. First\, the restoration of constitutionalism in the courts\, where the words of the Constitution actually bind the branches of government rather than serving as so much putty to be molded for current\, avant-garde agendas. Second\, a serious (though not yet remotely successful) pushback against an unelected and unaccountable administrative state\, with the hope of restoring policy-making power to the elected legislative branch (and\, ultimately\, to the people). Third\, a restoration of a foreign policy that pursues America’s interests in the world rather than\, as had increasingly become the case\, some nebulous (or even nefarious) globalism. Those are advances that every constitutional conservative should welcome\, and should continue to work to advance. \nOne negative\, though\, and that is the disinclination of Trump to tackle the ever-expanding federal budget. The deficit itself is obscene\, but the accumulated debt is now taking on proportions so large as to likely enslave future generations of Americans. Particularly when one realizes that much of spending by the federal government is not even constitutional–the spending power is limited to things for the “common defense and general welfare”—this is one area of focus to which conservatives need to re-dedicate themselves. \n\n  \nOnline Event: What does Trump’s Presidency Portend for the Future of Conservatism in America? \nMonday\, November 16 \n7:00 PM – 8:30 PM MT \nWatch here: https://www.youtube.com/CentennialInstituteCCU \n  \n\n \nAbout Dr. John Eastman: \nJohn C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University. Eastman\, a scholar of constitutional law and particularly religious freedom\, earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School. He also holds a PhD in government from Claremont University and a BA\, cum laude\, in politics and economics from the University of Dallas. \nHe has served as dean of the Chapman University School of Law and also as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-dr-john-eastman-future-conservatism-in-america/
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SUMMARY:Distinguished Lecture Series: Dr. John Eastman\, Future Conservatism in America
DESCRIPTION:What does Trump’s Presidency Portend for the Future of Conservatism in America? \nPresident Trump really upset the status quo in D.C. If court challenges go his way\, he will continue to do so for another 4 years\, but even if not\, his presidency has had a profound impact on America. First\, the restoration of constitutionalism in the courts\, where the words of the Constitution actually bind the branches of government rather than serving as so much putty to be molded for current\, avant-garde agendas. Second\, a serious (though not yet remotely successful) pushback against an unelected and unaccountable administrative state\, with the hope of restoring policy-making power to the elected legislative branch (and\, ultimately\, to the people). Third\, a restoration of a foreign policy that pursues America’s interests in the world rather than\, as had increasingly become the case\, some nebulous (or even nefarious) globalism. Those are advances that every constitutional conservative should welcome\, and should continue to work to advance. \nOne negative\, though\, and that is the disinclination of Trump to tackle the ever-expanding federal budget. The deficit itself is obscene\, but the accumulated debt is now taking on proportions so large as to likely enslave future generations of Americans. Particularly when one realizes that much of spending by the federal government is not even constitutional–the spending power is limited to things for the “common defense and general welfare”—this is one area of focus to which conservatives need to re-dedicate themselves. \n\n  \nOnline Event: What does Trump’s Presidency Portend for the Future of Conservatism in America? \nMonday\, November 16 \n7:00 PM – 8:30 PM MT \nWatch here: https://www.youtube.com/CentennialInstituteCCU \n  \n\n \nAbout Dr. John Eastman: \nJohn C. Eastman is the Henry Salvatori Professor of Law & Community Service at Chapman University. Eastman\, a scholar of constitutional law and particularly religious freedom\, earned a Juris Doctor from the University of Chicago Law School. He also holds a PhD in government from Claremont University and a BA\, cum laude\, in politics and economics from the University of Dallas. \nHe has served as dean of the Chapman University School of Law and also as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/distinguished-lecture-series-dr-john-eastman-future-conservatism-in-america-2/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:President's Lecture Series: The Pilgrims\, Puritans\, and Mayflower Compact
DESCRIPTION:In honor of the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims coming to America\, Dr. Mark David Hall\, the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University\, will speak on “The Pilgrims\, Puritans\, and Mayflower Compact.” \nThe President’s Lecture Series exists to expose students to great authors\, speakers\, theologians\, philosophers\, statesmen\, historians\, and others\, in an effort to provide students with an excellent education in strategic disciplines and Western civilization. \nMonday\, November 9\, 2020 \n7:00 pm – 8:30 pm MT \n \n\n \n  \nMark David Hall has been at George Fox since 2001. He received a BA in political science from Wheaton College and a PhD in political science from the University of Virginia. In addition to teaching politics and honors\, he is director of the John Dickinson Forum for the Study of America’s Founding Principles. \nMark’s primary research and writing interests are American political theory and the relationship between religion and politics. \nHe has written or co-edited twelve books\, including: \n  \n\nDid America Have a Christian Founding? Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth (Nelson Books\, October 28\, 2019)\nGreat Christian Jurists in American History  (Cambridge University Press\, 2019)\nAmerica’s Wars: A Just War Perspective  (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2019)\nFaith and the Founders of the American Republic  (Oxford University Press\, 2014)\nRoger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic  (Oxford University Press\, 2013)\nAmerica’s Forgotten Founders  (ISI Books\, 2011)\nThe Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life  (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2009)\nThe Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding  (Liberty Fund Press\, 2009)\nThe Founders on God and Government  (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2004)\nThe Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson\, 1742-1798  (University of Missouri Press\, 1997)\n\nHe has also written more than 100 journal articles\, book chapters\, reviews and sundry pieces. His essay\, Did America have a Christian Founding? has been downloaded more than 260\,000 times. Mark’s expert’s report for the Alliance Defending Freedom in the Barronelle Stutzman case was published by the Heritage Foundation as Religious Accommodations and the Common Good . \nMark occasionally contributes to The Intercollegiate Review \, Law and Liberty\, and Learn Liberty. He can be followed on Twitter at MDH_GFU. \nIn addition to teaching at George Fox University\, Mark is Associated Faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University\, Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion\, and an Affiliate Scholar at the John Jay Institute. \nMark is listed in Wikipedia  and is recognized as an expert on church-state relations by Christians in Political Science  and ReligionLink. He is also serves on the Board of Veritas Christian School. \nProfessor Hall is available for public speaking on the following topics: \n\n“Did America Have a Christian Founding?”\n“Jeffersonian Walls and Madisonian Lines: The Supreme Court’s Use of History and the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses”\n“Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic”\n“Faith and the Founders of the American Republic”\n“Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Wedding Ceremonies: Historic Precedents\, Future Possibilities”\n“Why Tolerate Religion? The Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty in America”\n\nMark gave a talk at a religious liberty conference in October 2016: “History Lesson: Founders\, Intent\, & Foundation of Religious Liberty\,” Plenary Address at the Pensmore National Symposium on Religious Liberty. \nMark has created a web page of religious liberty resources for Christian churches\, schools\, and other Christian ministries. \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/presidents-lecture-series-the-pilgrims-puritans-and-mayflower-compact/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:President's Lecture Series: The Pilgrims\, Puritans\, and Mayflower Compact
DESCRIPTION:In honor of the 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims coming to America\, Dr. Mark David Hall\, the Herbert Hoover Distinguished Professor of Politics and Faculty Fellow in the William Penn Honors Program at George Fox University\, will speak on “The Pilgrims\, Puritans\, and Mayflower Compact.” \nThe President’s Lecture Series exists to expose students to great authors\, speakers\, theologians\, philosophers\, statesmen\, historians\, and others\, in an effort to provide students with an excellent education in strategic disciplines and Western civilization. \nMonday\, November 9\, 2020 \n7:00 pm – 8:30 pm MT \n \n\n \n  \nMark David Hall has been at George Fox since 2001. He received a BA in political science from Wheaton College and a PhD in political science from the University of Virginia. In addition to teaching politics and honors\, he is director of the John Dickinson Forum for the Study of America’s Founding Principles. \nMark’s primary research and writing interests are American political theory and the relationship between religion and politics. \nHe has written or co-edited twelve books\, including: \n  \n\nDid America Have a Christian Founding? Separating Modern Myth from Historical Truth (Nelson Books\, October 28\, 2019)\nGreat Christian Jurists in American History  (Cambridge University Press\, 2019)\nAmerica’s Wars: A Just War Perspective  (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2019)\nFaith and the Founders of the American Republic  (Oxford University Press\, 2014)\nRoger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic  (Oxford University Press\, 2013)\nAmerica’s Forgotten Founders  (ISI Books\, 2011)\nThe Forgotten Founders on Religion and Public Life  (University of Notre Dame Press\, 2009)\nThe Sacred Rights of Conscience: Selected Readings on Religious Liberty and Church-State Relations in the American Founding  (Liberty Fund Press\, 2009)\nThe Founders on God and Government  (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2004)\nThe Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson\, 1742-1798  (University of Missouri Press\, 1997)\n\nHe has also written more than 100 journal articles\, book chapters\, reviews and sundry pieces. His essay\, Did America have a Christian Founding? has been downloaded more than 260\,000 times. Mark’s expert’s report for the Alliance Defending Freedom in the Barronelle Stutzman case was published by the Heritage Foundation as Religious Accommodations and the Common Good . \nMark occasionally contributes to The Intercollegiate Review \, Law and Liberty\, and Learn Liberty. He can be followed on Twitter at MDH_GFU. \nIn addition to teaching at George Fox University\, Mark is Associated Faculty at the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University\, Senior Fellow at Baylor University’s Institute for Studies of Religion\, and an Affiliate Scholar at the John Jay Institute. \nMark is listed in Wikipedia  and is recognized as an expert on church-state relations by Christians in Political Science  and ReligionLink. He is also serves on the Board of Veritas Christian School. \nProfessor Hall is available for public speaking on the following topics: \n\n“Did America Have a Christian Founding?”\n“Jeffersonian Walls and Madisonian Lines: The Supreme Court’s Use of History and the First Amendment’s Religion Clauses”\n“Roger Sherman and the Creation of the American Republic”\n“Faith and the Founders of the American Republic”\n“Religious Liberty and Same-Sex Wedding Ceremonies: Historic Precedents\, Future Possibilities”\n“Why Tolerate Religion? The Rise and Fall of Religious Liberty in America”\n\nMark gave a talk at a religious liberty conference in October 2016: “History Lesson: Founders\, Intent\, & Foundation of Religious Liberty\,” Plenary Address at the Pensmore National Symposium on Religious Liberty. \nMark has created a web page of religious liberty resources for Christian churches\, schools\, and other Christian ministries. \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/presidents-lecture-series-the-pilgrims-puritans-and-mayflower-compact-2/
LOCATION:Online
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