Where does morality come from? Isn't science rapidly approaching a complete explanation of nature? Do you ever have doubts about your worldview? Where can I find meaning and fulfillment?

College students around the world are asking themselves and their friends these questions, but there is often no real place to explore these questions alongside brilliant faculty and leading thinkers. 

Veritas Forums are university events that engage students and faculty in discussions about life's hardest questions and the relevance of Jesus Christ to all of life.

Veritas Forums are created and hosted by campus student organizations, connected to a network of 70 campuses nationwide, and supported by the national Veritas Forum team.

In 2012, The Veritas Forum at Columbia challenged John Lennox on the anniversary of 9/11 to answer the question, "Where Is God In Suffering?" Can God really be omnipotent and benevolent if he allows terrible things to happen? How can a Christian maintain their faith in the face of the loud absence of God?

In 2011, The Veritas Forum at Columbia was honored to host Ruby Bridges, a Civil Rights hero and first African-American student to go to a desegregated school in the South. Six years after the United States Supreme Court overturned segregation in American public schools, nothing had changed. Who would break the barrier? In November 1960, six-year-old Ruby Bridges took on that role. Escorted by federal marshals, she marched through screaming crowds into William Frantz Public School in New Orleans—not once, but every day, for five long months.