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{% assign current = site.posts[0] %}
<div id="full">
<div id="upcoming_events">
<h1>Upcoming Events</h1>
<div class="event">
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<h4 class="speaker">Speaker: {{current.speaker}}</h4>
<div class="event_pic">
<img src="{{current.event_image}}">
</div>
<div class="event_description">{{current.description}}</div>
<div class="event_location">
<span class="when_where">Location and Time</span><br/>
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{{current.location}}
</span>
</div>
<p style="clear: both;" />
</div>
</div>
<div id="previous_events">
<h1>Previous Events</h1>
{% for post in site.posts %}{% if forloop.index > 1 %}
<div class="event">
<h2 class="title">{{post.title}}</h2>
<h3 class="subtitle">{{post.subtitle}}</h3>
<h4 class="speaker">Speaker: {{post.speaker}}</h4>
<div class="event_pic">
<img src="{{post.event_image}}">
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<div class="event_location">
<span class="when_where">Location and Time</span><br/>
<span class="event_date">{{post.short_date}}<br/>
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<p style="clear: both;" />
</div>
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<div class="event">
<h2 class="title">Says Who?</h2>
<h3 class="subtitle">Can we find truth in a pluralistic age?</h3>
<h4 class="speaker">Guest speaker: Justin Taylor</h4>
<br/>
<div class="event_pic">
<img alt="Find Truth?" alt="Find Truth?" src="images/find_truth.png">
</div>
<div class="event_description">Twenty-first century American culture is comprised of an innumerable collection of subcultures, all set side by side right next to each other. In a given day we all rub shoulders with any number of these subcultures—each one with a different set of values, ethics, goals, and competing claims on what is true. But who says what is true? Is there any way to tell who has the truth? Does anyone have the truth? Does truth exist? Is truth accessible to us? Join us as we consider “What is truth” in a pluralistic age. All are welcome!
</div>
<div class="event_location">
<span class="when_where">Location and Time</span><br/>
<span class="event_date">
May 21,
2011<br/>
10:00 - Noon<br/>
Batavia Public Library
</span>
</div>
<p style="clear: both;" />
</div>
<div class="event">
<h2 class="title">Did Jesus Really Say/Do That?</h2>
<h3 class="subtitle">Did the gospel writers have access to eyewitness testimony?</h3>
<h4 class="speaker">
Guest speaker:
Dr. Peter J. Williams
</h4>
<br/>
<div class="event_pic">
<img alt="Rylands Library Papyrus P52" alt="Rylands Library Papyrus P52" src="images/P52_verso.jpg">
</div>
<div class="event_description">Did Jesus’ biographers—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John—record actual historical events? Was that even their goal? Were they capable historians? Or were they motivated more by their own historical circumstances decades after Jesus’ life and work? How can we know? Theories abound about how much of “the historical Jesus” is available to us today. Join us as Dr. Williams, internationally renowned linguist and scholar, explores whether the gospel writers had access to eyewitness testimony and the difference that makes for reading these historically important documents.
</div>
<div class="event_location">
<span class="when_where">Location and Time</span><br/>
<span class="event_date">
April 9,
2011<br/>
10:00 - Noon<br/>
Batavia Public Library
</span>
</div>
<p style="clear: both;" />
</div>
<div class="event">
<h2 class="title">Is God Dead?</h2>
<h3 class="subtitle"></h3>
<h4 class="speaker">
Speaker:
Nicholas Piotrowski
</h4>
<br/>
<div class="event_pic">
<img alt="Looking into the abyss" alt="Looking into the abyss" src="images/Looking_into_the_abyss-small.jpg">
</div>
<div class="event_description">At the end of the 19th century Friedrich Nietzsche proclaimed that “God is dead.” Throughout the 20th century Western thinkers in every discipline have taken up this “death of God” motif. What did Nietzsche mean by this, and how has he been understood over the subsequent 100+ years? Join us as we evaluate Nietzsche’s famous pronouncement in the light of more than a century’s worth of retrospect. What does it mean and is it true that “God is dead?”
</div>
<div class="event_location">
<span class="when_where">Location and Time</span><br/>
<span class="event_date">
Febuary 26,
2011<br/>
10:00 - Noon<br/>
Batavia Public Library
</span>
</div>
<p style="clear: both;" />
</div>
<div class="event">
<h2 class="title">How Did Humans Emerge From The Mud?</h2>
<h3 class="subtitle"></h3>
<h4 class="speaker">
Guest speaker:
Dr. Gerry Rau
</h4>
<br/>
<div class="event_pic">
<img alt="Emerge from the mud?" alt="Emerge from the mud?" src="images/emerge_from_the_mud.jpg">
</div>
<div class="event_description">Did we evolve, or were we created? Whether we are just another animal or created in the image of God has important personal and societal implications. Do we have to choose between science and religion, or is there a way to reconcile the two? This issue tends to spark heated debate, but our conversation will try to generate light rather than heat.
</div>
<div class="event_location">
<span class="when_where">Location and Time</span><br/>
<span class="event_date">
December 4,
2010<br/>
10:00 - Noon<br/>
Batavia Public Library
</span>
</div>
<p style="clear: both;" />
</div>
<h2>Is Christianity Intellectual Suicide?</h2>
<h4>Speaker: Nicholas Piotrowski</h4>
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><img alt="Man with head in sand" src="images/head in sand.jpg" class="event_pic"></td>
<td class="event_description">
Haven't modernity and the sciences disproved just
about every Christian doctrine? Why, then, does the
religion persist? Does it attract the dimwitted and the
intellectually lazy? Or does it make people so, breeding
ignorance as it spreads?
<br>Join us, but do not check your brain at the door,
as we consider if there is any philosophical warrant for
Christian belief anymore.
</td>
<td class="when_where">
<strong>Location and Time</strong>
October 23, 2010<br>
2:00 - 4:00pm<br>
Batavia Public Library<br>
<br>
October 20, 2009<br>
2:00 - 4:00pm<br>
Elgin Community College
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<h2>Proof</h2>
<h4>Speaker: Nicholas Piotrowski and the FVTS Panel</h4>
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><img alt="Gavel and Scale" src="images/gavel-small.jpg" class="event_pic"></td>
<td class="event_description">
DeKalb | Emmaus College Church invites Nicholas Piotrowski of the Fox Valley Theological
Society to campus to present his seminar "Proof" at 8 p.m. in the Regency
Room of the Holmes Student Center to interested NIU students of all beliefs.
Piotrowski, a PhD candidate at Wheaton College, will provide evidence
for the existence of God, the resurrection of Christ and the reliability
of the Bible. He will discuss the implications these events have for
people's lives today.
<a target="_blank" title=""Proof" seminar invites all beliefs" href="http://northernstar.info/campus/news/article_082a09ac-da52-11df-8dc2-00127992bc8b.html">More information</a>
</td>
<td class="when_where">
<strong>Location and Time</strong>
October 19, 2010<br>
8:00pm<br>
Regency Room,<br>
Holmes Student Center,<br>
Northern Illinois University
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<h2>Is Religion Dangerous?</h2>
<h4>Speaker: Nicholas Piotrowski</h4>
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><img alt="9/11 Lights" src="images/911 lights.jpg" class="event_pic"></td>
<td class="event_description">
The attacks on New York City and Washington DC
of September 11, 2001 are but a small sampling of the
many atrocities committed in the name of religion over
the centuries. Wouldn't our world beamch safer place,
therefore, if the ideologies that resulted in such violence
did not exist? Join us as we imagine "no hell below us;
above us only sky."
Speaker: Nicholas Piotrowski
</td>
<td class="when_where">
<strong>Location and Time</strong>
September 11, 2010<br>
2:00 - 4:00pm<br>
Batavia Public Library
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<h2>C. S. Lewis and the Problem of Evil and Suffering</h2>
<h4>Guest speaker: Dr. Jerry Root</h4>
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><img alt="C. S. Lewis" src="images/cs-lewis-small.jpg" class="event_pic"></td>
<td class="event_description">
The Fox Valley Theological Society is sponsoring a public lecture and
discussion forum on the topic of suffering and evil. Join the conversation
as we together think diligently about the philosophical, theological
and practical implications of the very real presence of suffering and
evil in our world.
</td>
<td class="when_where">
<strong>Location and Time</strong>
May 29, 2010<br>
10:00 - 11:30am<br>
Batavia Public Library
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<h2>Do Some People Really Believe That A Dead Man Came Back To Life?</h2>
<h4>Speaker: Nicholas Piotrowski</h4>
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><img alt="Empty Tomb?" src="images/empty-tomb.png" class="event_pic"></td>
<td class="event_description">
To believe that a dead man came back to life is a lot to swallow.
No wonder there have been many competing theories as to what actually
happened on the first “Easter” morning and what kicked the Christian
movement off. Join us as we consider how different traditions have
historically understood the story of the resurrection of Jesus of
Nazareth?
</td>
<td class="when_where">
<strong>Location and Time</strong>
April 3, 2010<br>
10:00 - 11:30am<br>
Batavia Public Library<br>
<br>
April 18, 2009<br>
7:30 - 9:00pm<br>
Caribou Coffee, South Elgin<br>
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<h2>Is Christianity Arrogant?</h2>
<h4>Speaker: Nicholas Piotrowski</h4>
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><img alt="Arrogant?" src="images/arrogant-small.gif" class="event_pic"></td>
<td class="event_description">
When comparing religions, it is often said that “All paths lead up
the same mountain of truth.” Yet, Christians claim that Jesus is
the only way to the Father. How can they make such an exclusive claim?
How can any one group claim to know the only way to God? Living in a
pluralistic society, isn’t such a claim inherently arrogant?
</td>
<td class="when_where">
<strong>Location and Time</strong>
<br>February 13, 2010
<br>10:00 - 11:30am
<br>Batavia Public Library
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
<h2>Did a Virgin Really Have a Baby?</h2>
<h4>Speaker: Nicholas Piotrowski</h4>
<table><tbody><tr>
<td><img alt="Manager Scene" src="images/baby-jesus-small.gif" class="event_pic"></td>
<td class="event_description">
The virgin birth of Jesus of Nazareth is at the very root of our Christmas
traditions. Needless to say many people dismiss such a story as myth.
Others, however, take it as literal history; God performed a miracle.
Well, did it happen? Is this the work of God? Or is it a story by men?
How can we know? How can we find out? Is it simply a charming tale we
tell during a brief season in winter to help lift our holiday sentiment?
Or is there something more lasting, more profound here?
</td>
<td class="when_where">
<strong>Location and Time</strong>
<br>December 12, 2009
<br>9:00 - 10:30am
<br>Batavia Public Library
</td>
</tr></tbody></table>
</div>
</div>
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