Veritas Forums are university events that engage students and faculty in discussions about life's hardest questions and the relevance of Jesus Christ to all of life. We seek to inspire the shapers of tomorrow's culture to connect their hardest questions with the person and story of Jesus Christ.

"We" refers to the hundreds of university community members who desire to host, plan, and coordinate a Veritas Forum on their local campuses, and the headquarter team in Cambridge, MA, with regional staff across North America and Europe.

Interdisciplinary Content
We consider veritas in relation to a variety of disciplines and cultural expressions. Our presenters are diverse in discipline, gender, race, background, and life experience. You might encounter a physicist, philosopher, painter, chemist, social justice lawyer, or surgeon within the course of a Veritas Forum. We draw from the classic academic disciplines as well as the pressing issues of contemporary culture. Through diversity of topic and depth of discussion we seek to seed communities with new ideas and fresh thinking.

Creativity
We approach our hardest questions through diverse and creative means, such as interactive workshops, artistic performances, lectures, film discussions, dialogues, and service projects. We encourage planners to explore their local university’s natural resources, human resources, and Christian heritage to create Forums that are more than theological or philosophical conversations, but experiences for the whole person.

Integrity
For our presenters, we seek practitioners, respected in their fields, who connect disparate elements of knowledge into a cohesive narrative, engaging with participants with humility and grace. We encourage the use of two types of presenters in conversation: one with a deep and growing understanding of how his/her life, faith and work connect with the story and person of Jesus Christ, and one with a differing worldview, in order to compare the differing answers to our hardest questions. We expect excellence and humility from all presenters equally, believing that communities benefit most from honest dialogue and thoughtful commentary.

Christ-Centered Vision
We seek to experience veritas not only as a journey, but also as a person. We offer our hardest questions to our presenters in exploration of the radical and ancient claim of truth in the person and story of Jesus Christ.




Quotes from our Dialogue Partners:

“I thought that the whole experience was very positive.  When I was approached by the Bowdoin student members of Veritas about participating, I was initially dubious.  The last thing I wanted was to find myself as part of a heavy-handed proselytizing operation.  On the other hand, I am completely in favor of increasing the level of dialogue between secular and religious perspectives on life’s most important questions, and both the Veritas website and the student organizers at Bowdoin heavily emphasized their genuine interest in dialogue, in generating light rather than heat. So I agreed to be a part of it, and I’m very glad that I did.  The event was run with precision and professionalism, and, true to the advertising, from beginning to end the focus was exploration and the search for truth, rather than advocacy or preaching. Needless to say, the deepest philosophical and religious issues were not definitively settled at the forum. However, the event did demonstrate that one can have completely civil discourse where points of agreement are acknowledged and developed, while points of disagreement are still hit head on, but without rancor and with a genuine attempt to understand the other's position. In these polarized times, that is an extremely worthwhile lesson.”

- Scott Sehon is a non-theistic professor of philosophy at Bowdoin College


"All this would hardly be worth saying—it would be extremely boring—if religion were like homeopathy or astrology, something easily rejected with the benefit of education and intelligence. But of course religion is not like that. As Exhibit A, I give you two of my fellow panel members. No doubt many audience members can comprise Exhibit B. But to me, the appeal of religion to people I admire and respect is one of the greatest mysteries of all."

- Alex Byrne, professor of philosophy and atheist at MIT

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