Current Classes

Navigating Your Grandchildren’s Sexual and Gender Landscape

Keith Graber Miller

Sept. 3, 5, 10, 12 | 2-3:30 p.m.

Perplexed by hearing your grandchildren and great-grandchildren mentioning gender and sexuality realities that weren’t previously a part of your vocabulary? This four-session course will address the various dimensions of heterosexual, cisgender and LGBTQIA2S+ dynamics, focusing on sexual orientations and gender identities but also addressing...

Christian Disunity: The Science of Barriers to “Love thy Neighbor”

Duane Kauffmann

Sept. 16, 18, 23, 25 | 2-3:30 p.m.

Of the New Testament Christians it was commanded, “so you must love one another.” Of twenty-first century Christians it might be said, “Behold how they disagree, bicker, accuse, and split.” During these four sessions we will explore research findings from genetics, neuroscience, social, personality, and social psychology which help to...

Amish Country Entrepreneur Adventure

Orley S. Miller

Sept. 19 | Day trip, 8:30 a.m. – 4 p.m. -

Meet at the Greencroft Community Center, North Entrance

Come along on a trip through Amish country and step off the bus at various Amish businesses: a buggy maker, a casket maker, chime maker, leather shop and Amish school, Amish wedding prep are some of the possibilities. We’ll have a Thresher meal at Yoder Homestyle...

How Understanding Evolution Leads to Deeper Faith

Jim Stump

Sept. 30; Oct. 2, 7, 9 | 10-11:30 a.m.

Jim Stump is a philosopher by training and now the Vice President at BioLogos. This course is based on his new book, The Sacred Chain, which tells Jim’s story of coming to accept
the science of evolution. We’ll work through challenges evolution posed to Christian faith, like the Bible, the soul, and pain and suffering. Each challenge...

What happens after we die? People have wondered about the afterlife, from the earliest pre-Christians to contemporary thinkers. In this class, we will explore classics like Homer’s Odyssey; apocalypses (revelations about the afterlife) from the early centuries of Christianity; Dante’s Divine Comedy; and C.S. Lewis’s The Screwtape Letters....

Making Coffee After Dark: A Class in Reading Poetry

Donald Lanctot

Oct. 28, 30; Nov. 4, 6 | 10-11:30 a.m.

We live in an age in which poetry is not so much disliked as utterly ignored. Collections of Robert Frost poems used to be best sellers; today poetry is relegated to inoffensive greetings on Hallmark cards. One could conclude poetry is dead. But, I think, that is premature. Poetry is, in my mind, as necessary and useful as a logical argument or...

Documentaries for Social Change

Kyle Hufford

Nov. 13, 20 | 2-4 p.m.

Documentaries have seen a huge resurgence in the last ten years with the growth of streaming platforms and access to documentaries has never been easier. However, not all documentaries are created for the same purpose. The Film Production program at Goshen College has been producing documentaries with the purpose to inspire and to influence...

Christmas Traditions: GC Festival of Carols

Marcia Yost

Monday, Nov. 25 & Dec. 2 | 10 a.m. // Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 10 a.m. // Thursday, Dec. 5 | 4 p.m.

Monday, Nov. 25 & Dec. 2 | 10 a.m.
Jennings Auditorium, Greencroft Community Center

Wednesday, Dec. 4 | 10 a.m.
Goshen College Music Center

Thursday, Dec. 5 | 4 p.m.
Sauder Concert Hall, Goshen College Music Center
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