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Christians throughout time have thought about where they worship in very diverse ways. Some place great emphasis in the physical beauty of a space, while others emphasize that God meets us wherever we are. Further, physical surroundings can be great distractions to transcendent things. August explores how has the Christian tradition wrestled with this tension and what we should do with it now.



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Cornell has been building dorms. Lots of them. They did this as they updated their policy to require undergraduates to live on campus for their first two years instead of just their first. How are these dorms different, and how do they shape life for the students in them?



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Season 4 begins as we look into the long zoning crisis in Caroline, NY, a town just outside of Ithaca. After digging into the details of the law and the dispute, we talk to Eric O. Jacobsen to explore a Christian approach to land use and the built environment. What's happened to make residents react so strongly, and is the push back justified?



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Dr. Anthony Bradley joins the show to discuss the state of fraternities at Cornell. Are they institutions of moral formation that can be used for good or inevitably instruments of harm?



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Episode 2 of season 3 continues in exploring the theme of, "The Greatest Good," through examining how students at Cornell see goodness. Dr. Christian Miller of Wake Forest University speaks into this conversation with research and expertise from psychology and philosophy to explore what a Christian anthropology adds to the conversation about personal perceptions of goodness and goodness itself.



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Season 3 of ClariTalks is focusing on the greatest good. Cornell recently spearheaded a fundraising campaign by quoting from Ezra Cornell's journal and claiming that all Cornellians are devoted to achieving the "greatest good." But how true is that in practice? And what does the university even think goodness is? In episode 1, we focus on the second question here–talking to university historian Corey Ryan Earle about the values that Cornell espouses and how it often fails to carry them out.



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