Fellowship Meetings

We'll take a look at Richard Mouw's book When the Kings Come Marching In.

For any and all Christian alumni and relatives, including (but not limited to) those who were involved with Campus Crusade for Christ, Chesterton House, Chi Alpha, Chinese Bible Study, Cornell Christian Fellowship (InterVarsity), Cornell International Christian Fellowship, Grace Christian Fellowship, Graduate Christian Fellowship, Navigators, and others. Join us for breakfast, fellowship, and updates on campus ministry activity. For more information, call Karl Johnson at 607-319-4038.

Walk-ins welcome, but feel free to RSVP and invite other alumni on Facebook.

The Protestant Reformation is a signal moment in history, not least for sparking the western churches to abandon centuries of religious ritual and ceremony. Yet, as Charles Taylor’s recent A Secular Age argues, the history and motivations for this turn are not as simple as we might imagine, being inspired in many ways by the rationalist and secular humanist culture of the day. Today we are experiencing something of an unexpected turn back to monastic and liturgical ways of life. What are the reasons for this renaissance? And what might we have lost in the intervening centuries?

We will examine whether there are places in the university where science and religion might fruitfully connect and models scientists with faith have for participating in religious communities.

Elaine Howard Ecklund is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rice University, where she also serves as a Rice Scholar of the James Baker III Institute for Public Policy, and Director of the Program on Religion and Public Life at the Institute for Urban Research.

Eleonore Stump is the Robert J. Henle, S.J., Professor of Philosophy at Saint Louis University. Author of several works in medieval philosophy, philosophy of religion, and metaphysics, Stump has served as president of the Society of Christian Philosophers, and president of the American Catholic Philosophical Association. She delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland in 2002.

Professor Chignell will speak about the issues raised by his recent article "Whither Wheaton." You can find the "back story" of the article and links to the many articles about the article at www.whitherwheaton.org.