ClariTalks

To finish our exploration of place in Season 4, we spend an entire day in Temple of Zeus, a cafe in between Klarman and Goldwin Smith Halls. We talk to people studying, coffee chatting, and doing otherwise to try to learn something about our campus. Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas or visit our website cornellclaritas.com

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. Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas or visit our website cornellclaritas.com

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? Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas or visit our website cornellclaritas.com

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? Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas or visit cornellclaritas.com

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? Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas

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. Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas or visit cornellclaritas.com

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. Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas or visit cornellclaritas.com

On this installment of ClariTalks Conversations, Seth interviews Wheaton professor and biblical scholar Dr. John Walton about biblical interpretation and the foundations of Genesis One. This podcast is the extended conversation from the one found in Seth's article, “The Lost Home of Genesis One” from the Fall 2021 Foundations issue. Find more articles and thoughtful content at www.cornellclaritas.com

For many millions of teenagers and adults struggling with depression or anxiety, the "good life" can seem unattainable because life may not seem very "good" in the first place. In this episode, Sarah Castor helps us approach this topic of "goodness"...what does a good life really mean when depression clouds our minds? Through interviews with a seminary student and a freshman at Cornell, as well as conversations about theology, Sarah shows us how the gospel gives us a guide for finding peace when we feel at our lowest. Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @cornellclaritas or at cornellclaritas.com Thanks for listening!

In 1987, a movie called “Wall Street” was released that painted a narrative of corporate greed and self-indulgence over the infamous financial district. This negative stigma has created a stereotype of finance careers, highlighting greed and money as the main motivators of success. In this episode of ClariTalks, Seth Bollinger explores the world of Wall Street through a financial advisor, a business student, and a moral psychologist with this question: how do careers and the good life intersect? And when does a career-focused life result in burnout? Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @cornellclaritas or at cornellclaritas.com Thanks for listening!

The second season of ClariTalks begins with a love story. When 17-year-old Seth arrived in a Guatemalan airport to meet his 27-year-old future fiance, he rushed over and hugged her tightly. It was “everything romance novels talk about,” Seth says. From that high point, everything fell apart for Seth and his ten-years-older love interest, leaving our protagonist to pick up the pieces of a broken relationship and reconsider his views on family and the good life. In this episode, Jack Kubinec tells Seth's story alongside interviews with an aspiring archaeologist and a PhD student in sociology with the goal of shedding light on this core question: how does family factor into the good life? Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @cornellclaritas or at cornellclaritas.com Thanks for listening!

What is “The Good Life?” For thousands of years philosophers, theologians, sociologists, psychologists, and many others have tried to answer this question. On this season of ClariTalks, we explore what “the good life” means to fellow students, friends, and faculty through captivating stories and academic insights. And perhaps we'll learn that a life lived for Christ results in the “best life” one can find. Season 2 premieres on April 10th! Follow us on Instagram and Facebook @cornellclaritas to stay updated!

For our last episode in our Climate series, we step away from the COVID-19 pandemic and focus on the racial turbulence of 2020 that brought topics such as racial justice, police brutality, and critical race theory into the public eye. Through interviews with friends who have experiences with racism and bias, we dive into how storytelling may be a good method for amplifying the voices of those who are marginalized...and how it may ultimately fall short if action is not taken. Catch our latest issue of the Claritas journal at www.cornellclaritas.com Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @cornellclaritas Thanks for listening!

Let's face it: large amounts of college students don't go to college for the education that is provided. Parties, clubs, being with friends have been the defining part of the college experience for decades...at least until a global pandemic came along. In this episode, we dive into how the social climate of Cornell University shifted during COVID-19 from the perspective of various residential advisors and students. Through stories of Among Us game nights, sharing fried chicken, and listener perspectives, we try to understand how we can define what a community truly is in this strange college experience. Catch our latest issue of the Claritas journal at www.cornellclaritas.com Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @cornellclaritas Thanks for listening!

Before the pandemic, did you ever use the now-popular video conferencing app called Zoom? In this episode, we take a look at the current weather of academics in higher education, which has been saturated with online classes and an overwhelming amount of Zoom calls. We hear from Dr. Cindy Van Es, a Statistics professor at Cornell University about the experience of doing a hybrid classroom setup, and from the Cornell Subreddit page where students describe their mental health struggles during this online semester. Ultimately, we try to answer the question: what value is there in doing college in an online environment? Catch our latest issue of the Claritas journal at www.cornellclaritas.com Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @cornellclaritas Thanks for listening!

This week we take a break from our ongoing Climate series to bring you an insightful conversation with Cole Arthur Riley, writer and creator of the popular Instagram account Black Liturgies. The interview, led by Claritas Blog Editor Kimberly St. Fleur, walks through the story behind Black Liturgies and covers topics ranging from lament, rage, tragedy, and a new vision for Christian hope. We hope that as we are wrapping up 2020 and going through this advent season, this conversation will uplift as well as convict us as we reflect on the hardships and trials of the past year. Catch our latest issue of the Claritas journal at www.cornellclaritas.com Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @cornellclaritas Thanks for listening!

The COVID-19 restrictions at Cornell University dealt a rough hand to one group whose job description is all about being on campus: campus chaplains. Jack takes us on a journey from Collegetown Bagels to the back of a minivan while interviewing campus chaplains about how they have had to adapt to the new weather patterns at Cornell, as well as how they believe the spiritual climate of Cornell is changing. Chaplains AG, Abbi, and Christina give us key insights into what they have learned during this season and what it's been like to be a Campus Chaplain with no campus. Catch our latest issue of the Claritas journal at www.cornellclaritas.com Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @cornellclaritas Thanks for listening!

Months of campaigning and debating could never have prepared America for a week quite like the 2020 presidential election, and college students were no exception. Told through peer interviews and election updates, we look at how students at Cornell reacted to the tumultuous election week and investigate how the political sphere on campus is changing. Ultimately, we analyze how gauging the weather of our political situations can lead Christians to bring about a climate change of humility, justice, and mercy in the future. Catch our latest issue of the Claritas journal at www.cornellclaritas.com Follow us on Instagram or Facebook @cornellclaritas Thanks for listening!

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, every facet of college life has transformed dramatically in the short term and may potentially have lasting long term effects. Through the lens of atmospheric sciences, we frame how the “weather” and “climate” of Cornell University may be changing and how we as Christians can find hope for the future. Special guests include Carley Eschliman, Cornell Class of 2020, and Dr. Ryan Lombardi, Vice President of Student Life at Cornell. Catch our latest issue of the Claritas journal at www.cornellclaritas.com Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas or Facebook @cornellclaritas Thanks for listening!

In the midst of COVID-19 and the events of 2020, every facet of college life has changed dramatically - some of us can't even be at college. In Season 1 of ClariTalks, we want to explore how the ‘climate' of higher education has been forced to change, along with the lessons and truths we have learned through it all. We'll be analyzing how we gauge the climate around us as well as looking into the spiritual, political, racial, social, and academic climates on our campuses today. First episode coming November 14th. Follow us on Instagram @cornellclaritas and check out cornellclaritas.com

As part of this multimedia HUMAN issue, we created a podcast to complement our articles, poetry, and art. In this episode, we put all the audio extras all in one place– which includes author's statements, conversations among writers, poetry readings, and more. Weaving the issue together is commentary from EIC's Brooke Lindsey (F20) and Abby Bezrutczyk (F19-S20), as we reflect on how the theme of HUMAN shines through this issue.