Christian faculty and staff gathering on Zoom on June 3 - The Fourth Conversation with Brother Lawrence

Join us on 6/3 when we'll go through the 4th conversation of Brother Lawrence's The Practice of the Presence of God. We'll seek advice from one who, while maintaining a degree of isolation in his order, never lacked for companionship with God. 

You can find the work at no cost in the Christian Classics Ethereal Library. It's also available for free at Project Gutenberg and the Internet Archive among other locations. I also formatted the Christian Classics Ethereal Library version in outline form to make the text easier to follow. 

Here are the Zoom Room details (password and waiting room are enabled for security):

A while back, Drew Trotter, Executive Director for Consortium of Christian Study Centers, joined us via speakerphones to tell us what Christian study centers were all about. A book just came out, To Think Christianly: A History of L'Abri, Regent College, and the Christian Study Center Movement by Charles E. Cotherman, that chronicles the movement. A founder at Regent College, Jame M. Houston visited UA a couple of years ago. Here are some highlights from a review in Christianity Today:

  • "In the May 1972 issue of Christianity Today, Frank Nelsen, a history professor from the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, proposed creating 'evangelical living and learning centers for undergraduate students [to] be built on private property near large state universities.' These centers would provide students with space to pursue 'an intellectually honest investigation of the Christian faith and its relation to secular disciplines.'”
  • "In the 19th century, organizations like the YMCA and the Chautauqua movement fulfilled a similar role for lay Christians. Catholics have built a vast Newman Center network, and mainline Protestants founded centers like the Ecumenical Institute at Bossey, Switzerland, in the late 1940s. "
  • "Evangelical Christian study centers trace their roots to two progenitors: Francis Schaeffer’s L’Abri community in Switzerland and Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia."
  • "…the twin legacies of L’Abri and Regent 'helped sow an emphasis on hospitality and relationship' for the study centers that would follow." 

On 6/3:

  • 1162. Thomas à Becket was consecrated Archbishop of Canterbury. After conflicts with King Henry II, 4 of the king's knights assassinated Becket in Canterbury Cathedral.
  • 1905. J. Hudson Taylor died. Taylor had founded China Inland Mission, which later became Overseas Missionary Fellowship.

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