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 Chesterton House is a collaborative effort among many members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities - including university faculty, staff, student campus ministry workers, and local pastors. It is a place where students can talk about the most serious of things in the most informal of ways. In the spirit of C.K. Chesterton, it is a place where they talk about everything-from cigars to sacraments and movies to metaphysics. And it is a place that considers Christian scholarship a coherent aspiration, not an oxymoron.
Chesterton House currently consists of a resource room containing the best of Christian scholarship, both classical and contemporary. This includes more than a dozen periodicals that bring faith to bear upon history, philosophy, science, literature, current events, and social justice. They also host regular discussion groups and movie nights. Future plans include conferences, seminars and classes. For more information, visit www.chestertonhouse.org. A quarterly electronic newsletter is available upon request.
 Modeling the coffee shops and tea rooms of Asia and Europe, Crossroads has created a place where more than coffee and bagels are served. By offering cultural awareness classes such as cooking, English language and American culture, Crossroads can improve the quality of life for hundreds of international students in Ithaca. Crossroads hosts several student organizations, has a free study center with thousands of resources, and offers gourmet coffee and desserts on a donation basis. Crossroads is a place of hospitality and serves as a gathering place of the world's minds and cultures to foster international dialogue and friendship. For more information on this creative work, visit www.crossroadslifecenter.org and www.carriagehousecafe.com.
We recommend that undergraduates and graduate students visit the Wilberforce Forum (www.wilberforce.org) as a valuable resource for information on Christian academic organizations, papers on various subjects and a worldview curriculum that is available online.
The Ivy League Christian Observer is a free quarterly publication which gives an update on the spiritual activity at Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, and Yale from an evangelical perspective. It is published by the Christian Union, a ministry, founded in January 2002, with the mission of advancing the Kingdom of Jesus Christ at the eight Ivy League schools and surrounding communities. Visit www.christian-union.org to get an overview and sign up to receive The Christian Observer.
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