University of Alabama Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 4/21, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM). This will be the last meeting for the term!  We'll finish Chapter 6 and wrap up of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George M. Marsden. If Christians are informing their scholarship with their faith, what would that look like and what difference would it make? The Amazon links are: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pIQRwL Kindle: https://amzn.to/32W0iPM   Items of interest   Book selected! For Fall 2021, we'll discuss Francis Chan's Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God . From the Amazon abstract:  God is love.  Crazy, relentless, all-powerful love.  Have you ever wondered if we're missing it? It's crazy, if you think about it. The God of the universe—the Creator of nitrogen and pine needles, galaxies and E-minor—loves us with a radical, unconditional, self-sacrificing love. And what is our typical response? We...

We'll finish Chapter 5 of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George M. Marsden. If Christians are informing their scholarship with their faith, what would that look like and what difference would it make? The Amazon links are: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pIQRwL Kindle: https://amzn.to/32W0iPM   From the abstract on Amazon: "Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context."  Meeting logistics   We'll continue to meet on Zoom until it's clear that staff, faculty, and students are fully back on campus and pursuing their regular activities. I'll keep checking for announcements about that.  The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87919167217?pwd=cVJjbHhUaXhidllPMkM1UXVCbzc0QT09   You're welcome to eat your lunch during the session.  Items of interest   Book survey . It's that time of the semester when we...

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 3/24, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM).  We'll finish Chapter 4 of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George M. Marsden. If Christians are informing their scholarship with their faith, what would that look like and what difference would it make? The Amazon links are: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pIQRwL Kindle: https://amzn.to/32W0iPM   From the abstract on Amazon: "Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context."  Meeting logistics   We'll continue to meet on Zoom until it's clear that staff, faculty, and students are fully back on campus and pursuing their regular activities. I'll keep checking for announcements about that.  The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87919167217?pwd=cVJjbHhUaXhidllPMkM1UXVCbzc0QT09   You're welcome to eat your...

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 3/31, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM).  We have a special guest: Rev Peter Leithart, President of the Theopolis Institute . Here is some information from the Institute's website : "The Theopolis Institute perpetuates the Biblical Horizons agenda of church reformation and cultural transformation into the future." "We offer a vision that we believe can and should shape the churches of the future – a thoroughly sacramental and Trinitarian theology and church practice, solidly rooted in Scripture, combined with unreserved catholicity that draws from all traditions of the church." "We accomplish this aim principally by providing affordable, graduate-level leadership training courses, focusing on biblical and liturgical theology."  Meeting logistics   We'll continue to meet on Zoom until it's clear that staff, faculty, and students are fully back ...

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 3/24, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM).  We'll discuss Chapter 4 of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George M. Marsden. If Christians are informing their scholarship with their faith, what would that look like and what difference would it make? The Amazon links are: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pIQRwL Kindle: https://amzn.to/32W0iPM   From the abstract on Amazon: "Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context."  Meeting logistics   We'll continue to meet on Zoom until it's clear that staff, faculty, and students are fully back on campus and pursuing their regular activities. I'll keep checking for announcements about that.  The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87919167217?pwd=cVJjbHhUaXhidllPMkM1UXVCbzc0QT09   You're welcome to eat you...

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 3/17, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM).  We'll finish Chapter 4 of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George M. Marsden. If Christians are informing their scholarship with their faith, what would that look like and what difference would it make? The Amazon links are: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pIQRwL Kindle: https://amzn.to/32W0iPM   From the abstract on Amazon: "Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context."  Meeting logistics   We'll continue to meet on Zoom until it's clear that staff, faculty, and students are fully back on campus and pursuing their regular activities. I'll keep checking for announcements about that.  The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87919167217?pwd=cVJjbHhUaXhidllPMkM1UXVCbzc0QT09   You're welcome to eat your...

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 3/10, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM).  We'll finish Chapter 3 of The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship by George M. Marsden. The Amazon links are: Paperback: https://amzn.to/3pIQRwL Kindle: https://amzn.to/32W0iPM   From the abstract on Amazon: "Marsden argues forcefully that mainstream American higher education needs to be more open to explicit expressions of faith and to accept what faith means in an intellectual context."  Meeting logistics   We'll continue to meet on Zoom until it's clear that staff, faculty, and students are fully back on campus and pursuing their regular activities. I'll keep checking for announcements about that.  The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87919167217?pwd=cVJjbHhUaXhidllPMkM1UXVCbzc0QT09   You're welcome to eat your lunch during the session.  Items of interest   We had a great meeting with Peter Bonilla, Vice President of Program...

Come to the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 3/3, at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM).  Our program  Peter Bonilla, Vice President of Programs for Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) , will join us on 3/3 to discuss the rights of faculty and staff in higher education. He will keep his presentation short to make more time for Q&A. Here is FIRE's mission statement : "The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education’s mission is to defend and sustain the individual rights of students and faculty members at America’s colleges and universities. These rights include freedom of speech, freedom of association, due process, legal equality, religious liberty, and sanctity of conscience—the essential qualities of liberty. FIRE educates students, faculty, alumni, trustees, and the public about the threats to these rights on our campuses, and provides the means to preserve them." FIRE is not a religious o...

  Join us at the Christian Faculty and Staff Fellowship on Wednesday, 2/24 , at 11:45 AM (done by 12:45 PM).  We have a special treat for you!  Because we're discussing his book, The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship , George Marsden is kind enough to join us via Zoom on 2/24 to share about the book's ideas. He is Professor Emeritus at Notre Dame and Distinguished Scholar in the History of Christianity at Calvin Theological Seminary . His background includes receiving the Bancroft Prize for his biography of Jonathan Edwards, Jonathan Edwards: A Life . Interview based on Outrageous Idea Interview about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity   Meeting logistics   We'll continue to meet on Zoom until it's clear that staff, faculty, and students are fully back on campus and pursuing their regular activities. I'll keep checking for announcements about that.  The Zoom link is: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87919167217?pwd=cVJjbHhUaXhidllPMkM1UXVCbzc0QT09   You...