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SUMMARY:Last Lecture Series: Escape Passivity\, Engage Pursuit
DESCRIPTION:Join the Centennial Institute for our upcoming Last Lecture event with Dr. Matt Jones\, Associate Professor of New Testament Studies. \nLife is way too precious to spend the time we have been granted to be passive\, apathetic\, indifferent\, and idle. The Triune God not only wants us to experience life but also to seek intentional\, thoughtful\, and active lives. This “Last Lecture” will challenge us to consider three observations about life in the 21st century. Dr. Jones will challenge us to examine whether we are living a life worthy of the gift we have been given. \nLast Lecture Series: Dr. Matt Jones\nMonday\, February 16\, 2026\n12:15 pm – 1:15 pm MT\nArmstrong Center Parlor\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226 \nRegister Now \nMEDIA CREDENTIALING: While members of the media are welcome to attend our events\, they are not allowed inside university buildings or facilities for the purpose of reporting unless they have received prior approval in writing from the Communications and Creative Services Department. For more information on how to apply for a media credential\, please email centennial@ccu.edu. \nAbout Dr. Matt Jones \n \nDr. Matt Jones’ experience as a student at a Christian Liberal Arts institution was transformational for his faith\, life\, and future. Many of those transforming moments occurred as a result of staff and faculty investment in and outside of the classroom. Realizing the roles they had in his life served as an impetus to teach traditional undergraduate students. As a result\, not only does Dr. Jones have the opportunity to teach\, engage\, and learn alongside these students\, but he also has the chance to mentor multiple students through intentional relationships for the sake of Christ. \nJones completed his Ph.D. by examining the humanity of Jesus in Matthew and serves with Summit Ministries as a co-host for the Upside-Down Parenting podcast and faculty-in-residence. When not serving students\, teaching\, or engaging in community and church activities\, he enjoys spending time with his amazing wife\, Cathy\, and his young adult children\, Hannah\, Tyler\, and Mackenzie. If there’s any time remaining\, Dr. Jones likes to run and play golf.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/last-lecture-series-dr-matt-jones/
LOCATION:Armstrong Center Parlor\, 8787 W Alameda Ave\, Lakewood\, CO\, 80226
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SUMMARY:Issue Forum: The Virtue of Color-Blindness and the Classics
DESCRIPTION:Join Centennial Institute for a conversation with Dr. Andre Archie\, associate professor of ancient Greek philosophy at Colorado State University\, on how the classical tradition might help defeat identity politics. \nDr. Archie’s approach to race relations – the color-blind approach – is grounded on the moral belief that the mere possession of hereditary qualities\, like race\, should not confer moral merit by their possession or nonpossession. Instead\, moral merit can be\, and should be\, conferred upon an individual’s actions\, because actions reveal one’s character. The belief in character\, as opposed to ascriptive qualities\, as the locus of moral agency has a rich and comprehensive history in the West\, and it continues to animate our own Founding documents and way of life. \nIssue Forum: The Virtue of Color-Blindness and the Classics\nThursday\, November 13\, 2025\n12:15 pm – 1:15 pm MT\nArmstrong Center Parlor\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226 \nRegister Now \nMEDIA CREDENTIALING: While members of the media are welcome to attend our events\, they are not allowed inside university buildings or facilities for the purpose of reporting unless they have received prior approval in writing from the Communications and Creative Services Department. For more information on how to apply for a media credential\, please email centennial@ccu.edu. \nAbout Dr. Andre Archie \nAndre Archie\, associate professor of ancient Greek philosophy at Colorado State University\, received his PhD from Duquesne University. He specializes in the History of Ancient Greek Philosophy and Ancient Greek Political Philosophy. His latest research focuses on methodological issues in Plato and Aristotle. Andre has published in various academic journals such as the Journal of Philosophical Research\, Ancient Philosophy\, History of Political Thought\, and Scholia. He is the author of Politics in Socrates’ Alcibiades: A Philosophical Account of Plato’s Dialogue Alcibiades Major (Springer 2015). \nAndre’s scholarship also highlights the value of Classical Studies and how it can provide a much-needed perspective on topical issues that often get discussed glibly by today’s educators. Such issues are identity politics\, race\, family\, and culture. Andre’s engagement with classical antiquity wholeheartedly affirms its positive and civilizing values. His writings in these areas have appeared in National Review\, The American Conservative\, and Modern Age.  \nWhen not teaching and writing\, Andre enjoys traveling\, the occasional ski weekend with his family\, long walks with his wife\, and reading good books. His latest book is The Virtue of Color-Blindness. \n 
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/issue-forum-the-virtue-of-color-blindness-and-the-classics/
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SUMMARY:CCU for Israel: Iran's 2025 Playbook - Unraveling the Next Wave of Threats to U.S. Security
DESCRIPTION:Over the last year\, international security concerns have risen\, particularly in the Middle East. What threat does Iran pose in 2025 as it seeks to expand its proxy network? As the Gaza ceasefire agreement is finalized\, what comes next for the region? What must the U.S. and its allies do to counter this growing danger? \nJoin the Centennial Institute and the Counterterrorism Education Learning Lab (CELL) for a conversation with Dr. Matthew Levitt\, one of the nation’s foremost experts in counterterrorism\, Middle Eastern affairs\, and intelligence\, as he shares an inside look at what to expect for national security amidst these rising tensions. \nCCU for Israel: Iran’s 2025 Playbook – Unraveling the Next Wave of Threats to U.S. Security\nWednesday\, March 5\, 2025\n12:00 pm – 1:15 pm MT\nArmstrong Center Parlor\nColorado Christian University\n8787 W. Alameda Ave.\nLakewood\, CO 80226 \nRegister Now \nThis project was supported by grant #24PIBV24CELL\, issued by the Colorado Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. The discounted $5.00 per-participant charge for this program has been graciously underwritten by the CELL’s underwriters. \n  \nAbout Dr. Matthew Levitt: \n \nMatthew Levitt is the Fromer-Wexler Senior Fellow at The Washington Institute and director of its Jeanette and Eli Reinhard Program on Counterterrorism and Intelligence. From 2005 to early 2007\, he served as deputy assistant secretary for intelligence and analysis at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. In that capacity\, he served both as a senior official within the department’s terrorism and financial intelligence branch and as deputy chief of the Office of Intelligence and Analysis\, one of sixteen U.S. intelligence agencies coordinated under the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. During his tenure at Treasury\, Dr. Levitt played a central role in efforts to protect the U.S. financial system from abuse and to deny terrorists\, weapons proliferators\, and other rogue actors the ability to finance threats to U.S. national security. In 2008-2009\, he served as a State Department counterterrorism advisor to the special envoy for Middle East regional security (SEMERS)\, General James L. Jones. \nDr. Levitt has written extensively on terrorism\, countering violent extremism\, illicit finance and sanctions\, the Middle East\, and Arab-Israeli peace negotiations\, with articles appearing in peer-reviewed journals\, policy magazines\, and the press\, including the Wall Street Journal\, Washington Post\, Foreign Affairs\, Foreign Policy\, and numerous other publications. He is also a frequent guest on the national and international media\, and the author of several books and monographs\, including Hamas: Politics\, Charity and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad (Yale University Press\, 2006)\, Negotiating Under Fire: Preserving Peace Talks in the Face of Terror Attacks (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2008)\, and Hezbollah: The Global Footprint of Lebanon’s Party of God (Georgetown University Press\, 2013). He is the host of the podcast series\, Breaking Hezbollah’s Golden Rule\, and he created and maintains interactive maps of Hezbollah’s international activities and of Iran’s external operations. \nDr. Levitt holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from Yeshiva University\, as well as a master’s degree in law and diplomacy and a doctorate from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He was a graduate research fellow at Harvard Law School’s Program on Negotiation and has taught at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service\, Johns Hopkins University’s Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies\, and Hopkins’ Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. Levitt is the 2021-22 Andrew H. Siegel Professor at Georgetown University’s Center for Jewish Civilization.
URL:https://centennial.ccu.edu/event/ccu-for-israel-irans-2025-playbook/
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