CFSF meets September 19

Avast, me hearties! September 19 be International Speak Like a Pirate Day, and Blake McKenney will dig up Chapter 4 of the book and pass those treasures to us! Our mates, Jarran Hill and John Kim broke open the booty in Chapters 2 and 3 and spread it about the crew, more t' be desired than the finest gold doubloons. 

Board the ship docked at Baptist Campus Ministries and get the finest grub in the crew's mess. Then move yer peglegs to the Cap'n's dinin' table with the rest of us scallywags. 

Watch out for Krakens. Y'arrgh! 

Some other things happened on September 19 besides pirate-speak:

• 1630 George Herbert was ordained as a priest in the Church of England and wrote many religious poems - I remember reading his works in my literature classes (Christian History Institute).
• 1853 Hudson Taylor departed England for China, eventually founding the China Inland Mission, which has become today's Overseas Missionary Fellowship (An Almanac of the Christian Church). 

Check out some interesting lectures from the Consortium of Christian Study Centers Annual Conference. The Kinghorn lecture is particularly relevant, especially in light of the book we're reading. 

Alan Jacobs is a scholar of English literature, writer, and literary critic. He is a distinguished professor of the humanities in the Honors Program of Baylor University. He is the author of numerous publications, most recently, How to Think: A Survival Guide for a World at Odds, The Book of Common Prayer: A Biography, and The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction. In addition to his academic work and books, Jacobs has been, or is, a regular contributor to: The Atlantic, First Things, The New Atlantis, and The American Conservative.

• Alan Jacobs – On Not Thinking for Yourself:  Why you can’t think for yourself, why you shouldn’t try, and what you can do instead.  You can listen to Dr. Alan Jacobs’s lecture, Part 1 HERE.
• Alan Jacobs – Charity Towards the Uncharitable:  Charity as a mode of thought; a case study in being in the world but not of it. You can listen to Dr. Alan Jacobs’s lecture, Part 2 HERE.
• You can download Dr. Jacobs’s handout HERE.

Warren Kinghorn is a psychiatrist whose work centers on the role of religious communities in caring for persons with mental health problems and on ways in which Christians engage practices of modern health care. Jointly appointed within Duke Divinity School and the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences of Duke University Medical Center, he is a staff psychiatrist and clinical teacher at the Durham VA Medical Center. Within the Divinity School, he works closely with students and faculty members interested in exploring the ways in which theology and philosophy might constructively inform Christian engagement with modern medicine and psychiatry. He is also co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative. His current scholarly interests include the moral and theological dimensions of combat-related post-traumatic stress disorder, the applicability of virtue theory to the vocational formation of pastors and clinicians, and the contributions of the theology and philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas to contemporary debates about psychiatric diagnosis, psychiatric technology, and human flourishing.

• Warren Kinghorn – Mental Health on College Campuses: Possibilities and Opportunities for Christian Study Centers.  You can listen to Dr. Warren Kinghorn’s lecture HERE.
• You can download Dr. Kinghorn’s slide presentation HERE.