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What is Core Book?
Each year, the College selects a "core book." This book is chosen because it embodies and illuminates important themes of Wheaton's Christ at the Core general education curriculum. Throughout the year, we read, discuss, reflect, and learn together about the book and its themes. Our faculty, students, and staff work together to create materials to accompany readers. And we host Core Book events such as scholarly lectures, panel discussions, theatrical performances, film showings, reading groups, concerts, and more.
Who Reads the Core Book?
Everyone! All students, faculty, and staff are invited to participate in the conversation. We also invite local community members as well as the wider public to take advantage of Core Book resources and events. The Core Book program fosters a shared experience across the Wheaton community and beyond as we read, reflect upon, and discuss the book together.
Homer’s Odyssey, epic in more ways than one, has been justly acclaimed through thousands of years of literary tradition as a source and touchstone for world literature. It’s also simply a romping good story, endlessly entertaining and endlessly generative for stories told everywhere, kitchen tables to college classrooms. Set in a time and place far from us, the story no less inspires our own connections to characters (and criticism of them!), as well helping us ask our perennial questions. Reading The Odyssey allows us to think about suffering, ethics, theology, hospitality, friendship, parent-child relationships, marriage, death, honor, and the foundations of a good, stable society. Reading the text together and allowing ourselves to soak in its stories will yield not only such questions and conversations, but also new tales, poems, dances, paintings, talks, ideas, jokes
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The Wheaton College community has developed a variety of resources for use, whether engaged with in group settings, or used for personal consideration. Access and download them for free. 
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