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  • NEW! Magickal Jesus: Holy man, wonders, and a history of forgetting
  • Dates: 9/11/2025 - 10/9/2025
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Days: Th
    Sessions: 5
    Building: Online – Zoom
    Room: Zoom Link - Emailed Day Prior
    Instructor(s): Edward Ingebretsen
    Fee: $0.00

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  • Science and the Shroud of Turin
  • Dates: 10/3/2025 - 10/17/2025
    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Days: F
    Sessions: 3
    Building: Campus Center
    Room: Room 159
    Instructor(s): Michael Finlan
    Fee: $0.00

    The Shroud of Turin is a religious artifact believed by many to be the burial cloth of Jesus. There have been several scientific studies of the Shroud. Several of these studies convinced some that this is indeed the cloth that swathed Jesus' corpse, while contradictory studies abound claiming that the Shroud is a hoax, even though some of these studies have been disproven. This class will examine several methods used to determine the cloth's authenticity. One central method examined will be radiocarbon dating – a key point of contention. The class will cover how radiocarbon dating was performed, whether the results "prove" the Shroud is a hoax, and if the radiocarbon testing was so flawed that results are either ambiguous or wrong.

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  • NEW! Political and Ethical Philosophy of the Scottish Enlightenment
  • Dates: 11/10/2025 - 12/1/2025
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Days: M
    Sessions: 3
    Building: Virginia Greens
    Room: Theatre
    Instructor(s): Bill Rhodes
    Fee: $0.00

    IMPORTANT! Class location has changed for this 3-session course. Class now meets at Virginia Greens Retirement Community (Theatre), 4301 Battery Blvd., Williamsburg, 23185 in the Quarterpath area near Williamsburg (Riverside) Doctors Hospital / Harris Teeter shopping center

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  • The Life Most Worth Living: Virtue Theory in Ancient and Modern Perspective
  • Dates: 11/12/2025 - 12/5/2025
    Times: 9:30 AM - 11:30 AM
    Days: W F
    Sessions: 6
    Building: School of Education
    Room: Room 2010
    Instructor(s): Bill Rhodes
    Fee: $0.00

    Important! There is no class on Nov 26 or 28 (Thanksgiving week)

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  • NEW! The Star that Appeared to the Magi
  • Dates: 12/2/2025 - 12/9/2025
    Times: 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
    Days: Tu
    Sessions: 2
    Building: Campus Center
    Room: Little Theatre
    Instructor(s): Daniel McConaughy
    Fee: $0.00

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