Tuesday, July 08, 2008

Veritas Forum Coming to UCSF

Veritas Forum is a national event-oriented organization focused on creating events on campuses addressing the tough questions regarding life and faith. Our neighboring universities recently hosted Francis Collins and Tim Keller during campus events designed to engage their student bodies on theistic evolution ("biologos") and the reason for God in the face of seemingly perpetual doubt. And now Veristas is coming to UCSF!

Our campus is uniquely positioned as a graduate health sciences campus to focus on the demanding scientific or philosophical questions that crop up regarding our faith. We as a student community have the opportunity to design a topic that we feel would engage the community, invite a speaker who could communicate the issues and its relevance to Jesus in our lives, and create an atmosphere for open and honest discussion with our friends and colleagues.

As an event for the campus, Veritas would be best planned by the campus fellowships. If you or interested members of your fellowships would like to attend our first planning meeting, on July 14, 7pm, please let us know, and we would be happy to get you more information and answer any of your questions.