Last week, I was pleased to host Professor Dallas Willard on campus as part of my Presidential Scholars Program. Professor Willard is one of the finest living Christian philosophers today, and has recently been exploring the role of knowledge in the Christian faith. As he told our students, the secular world has shunned theology and spirituality as a matter of “faith” – something that cannot be explained through reason or knowledge.

Professor Willard rejects that, and so do we at The King’s College. Our society needs institutions to declare that Christianity is a faith grounded in reason. Indeed, that’s what we aim to do at King’s: to prepare a future generation of leaders who are grounded in the truths of Christianity and who bring those truths to bear in whichever vocation God calls them.

Jesus Christ is the ultimate philosopher. His insight into what matters for humans show that not only is he the world’s greatest philosopher, he is totally unrivaled. That’s why we’re dedicated to serving Him at King’s!

Serving the King of Kings,

Dinesh

With so much progress made in race relations in America since the 1950's, the prevalence of racism in many American churches raises the question, “why do some churches still struggle with issues of race?” Anthony Bradley, Associate Professor of Theology and Ethics, moderated a discussion between Dr. Timothy Keller and famed Christian author John Piper on the topic of race and Christianity.

The event, which was held at the New York Society for Ethical Culture, was hosted following the release of John Piper’s newest book, Bloodlines: Race, Cross, and Christian.

The King’s College is pleased to announce that users can now find faculty, staff, alumni, and student publications on the TKC website. The page also lists the published works of President Dinesh D’Souza.

The page is easily accessible on the right hand side of the front page of the King’s website. After clicking the "King's Publications" link, users can search by author, publication year, and by the King’s status of the author (faculty, staff, student, etc).

Each Spring, The King’s College holds its annual “Interregnum.” In Latin, the word interregnum means “the time between kings.” At King’s, Interregnum is a three-day break from classes filled with speaking, art, and writing competitions focused on a designated theme. The theme of Interregnum VIII, Tradition and Innovation, drove students to consider the strengths and weaknesses of both. The event culminated in a keynote address delivered by Dr. David Bentley Hart.

Interregnum is comprised of a variety of competitions that call on students in all ten Houses to participate. Individual events include academic writing, creative writing, prepared lecture, random theme debate, parliamentary debate, and more.

Click on the video below to watch footage of the final parliamentary debate round of Interregnum VIII. The House of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and the House of C.S. Lewis debated the motion, "This House would remove all state benefits to the married."

President Dinesh D’Souza teamed up with MIT physicist Ian Hutchinson to debate Michael Shermer and Sean Carroll on the topic “Has Science Refuted Religion?” The four discussed a range of topics including cosmology, anthropology, and philosophy, over the course of the two hour debate (embedded below).

During the debate, Sean Carroll argued that “religion and science have gone their separate ways.” Ian Hutchinson followed, arguing that Shermer and Carroll’s conclusions are based on asserting a flawed philosophy of science. Hutchinson said, “They subscribe to the philosophical doctrine of scientism: the erroneous belief that all the real knowledge is scientific.”