Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship meets January 30

Is January 30 a great day or what? It's National Croissant Day. Prolly don't need to say more. 

Come to the Christian Faculty Network lunch meeting on Wednesday, January 30 at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM). We meet at the Baptist Campus Ministries building (University Boulevard and 4th Avenue). 

Plan on the best meal deal in town: You can get lunch there for $1 thanks to the generosity of local churches. Don't forget to thank the church workers for what they do for the students. 

Many thanks to Alan Tidwell for getting our book study off to rousing start, facilitating a wonderful and energetic discussion of Chapter 1. Next week, Jarran Hill will facilitate a discussion of Chapter 2 of our book for this term: Love Your God with All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul by J.P. Moreland (NavPress, 2012). The title is linked to Amazon. Make sure to get the 2012 version.

• It's an updated version of the book from 1997. If you have the 1997 edition, you'll find Chapters 7-9 are different. The other chapters have few changes. It's OK to use your older copy, however, because there is some good material in those older chapters. We won't include those chapters in the final exam!
• We will have a few spare books for those unable to get their own copy.
• Moreland makes the case for the intellectual appeal and rigor of Christianity. It has a cultural, worldview, and apologetics outlook and is relevant to us who want to be salt and light in the groves of academe. The book can be a basis for other readings we would do. 

I attached outlines of Chapters 1 and 2 to give an idea of what the chapters cover. I also attached the latest list of what's happening this semester during our meetings. 

If you like articles online, check these out:

• What are the implications of interacting with digital media that give us information in small snippets? One professor believes we're changing how we read, which has implications for how we think. Here's telling quotation: "…digital devices pose a threat to the development of this mental circuitry [reading ability]—not because digital reading is fundamentally different from print reading, but because the digital medium deluges us with information in byte-sized chunks, promoting information overload and distraction."
• Dr. James Tour, a chemistry professor at Rice, is profiled in a Navigators article and routinely prays for the campus with some faculty and staff.

 

Today in the history of the faith:

• 1912 The apologist, Francis Schaeffer, was born. He and his wife, Edith, established L'Abri Fellowship in Switzerland, providing a place for people seeking answers about God. L'Abri became synonymous with the intellectual dimension of Christianity.
• 1977 Anglican Bishop Festo Kivengere preached his sermon, The Preciousness of Life, in Uganda to speak against Idi Amin's dictatorship.