These six convictions animate everything we do. Ultimately, we believe that patient, confident engagement with the gospel and the life of the mind is the ground on which the church can faithfully meet our modern world.
We believe the historic Christian gospel — the life, death, resurrection, and lordship of Jesus Christ — is objectively true and the most urgent news in the world. Lantern House is explicitly and unapologetically evangelistic.
We reject the postmodern reduction of truth to preference or power. All truth, wherever found, belongs to God — and honest intellectual inquiry is itself an act of worship.
The modern research university was founded on the conviction that knowledge of ultimate reality is worth pursuing. We aim to re-open that conversation — on campus, in the community, and around the table.
Following Harry Blamires, Francis Schaeffer, and the Reformed tradition, we affirm that Christian truth bears on every domain of human life — art, ethics, politics, beauty, suffering, and human purpose. There is no neutral ground.
Following Bonhoeffer's Life Together and the L'Abri tradition, we believe the most powerful witness is an honest engagement in the context of a community that actually lives as though the gospel were true.
We are not a generic institution that could exist anywhere. We are rooted in Lawrence, in Kansas, in a specific place where the great questions of American civilization have always been fought out first. Place matters.
