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Intervarsity Graduate Student and Faculty Christian Fellowship |
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Here is a list of special events currently on the calendar. |
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***First Friday Gatherings: First Fridays have ended for the 2007-2008 school year. There will be occasional unscheduled gatherings during the summer, which will be announced by email to those on the listserv. To get on the listserv and receive those announcements, please contact Denny Chadwick. ***Spring Conference for grad students in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Missouri, or Minnesota, May 30-June 1, at Camp Wesley Woods near Des Moines, Iowa. Dr. Daryl McCarthy of the International Institute for Christian Studies will speak on the academic/spiritual model provided by the Irish Monastic Movement in the 6th and 7th Centuries in Europe. Contact Denny Chadwick for a brochure and registration form, 749-3396. ***The Trinity Arts Conference, Change: A Multidisciplinary Conference on Faith, Integrity, and the Rhythms of Art, University of Dallas, June 12-15, 2008. This annual conference draws filmmakers, journalists, actors, writers, poets, composers, visual artists, dancers, and musicians as well as their teachers. Go to www.TrinityArtsConference.com. ***Festival of Faith and Writing 2008, hosted by Calvin College on their campus in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The conference features Rob Bell, Elizabeth Berg, Scott Cairnes, Mary Gordon, Mary Carroll Wynne, Kathleen Norris, Katherine Paterson, Phyllis Tickle, and many others. Visit the web page at www.calvin.edu/academic/engl/festival/. ***InterVarsity's Faculty Ministry's Midwest Faculty Conference 2008, June 21-27, 2008, at the beautiful Cedar Campus, InterVarsity's conference grounds in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. The Faculty Conference program will include lectures and discussion of our theme led by Dallas Willard, Kelly Monroe Kullberg, and Mary Poplin, daily prayer and small-group Bible study discussions, and seminars. It is our goal and desire to honor the highest standards of the academic vocation and to explore the deepest needs of the human heart. Read more about t his year's presenters: Dallas Willard, University of Southern California; Kelly Monroe Kullberg, The Veritas Forum founder; and Mary Poplin, Claremont Graduate University. For more information and to register, go to http://www.intervarsity.org/gfm/faculty/event/faculty-conference-2008. ***A Christian Faculty Dinner and Social for KU faculty and spouse (or friend) at a faculty home on Friday evening, September 12. This free catered meal and relaxed social time is intended to break the sense of spiritual isolation in the academy that professors with living faith in Jesus Christ sometimes experience. This is a chance to meet professors (and spouses) in similar as well as very different fields, but who follow the same Lord. Spouses will find the evening to be relational, not academic. More details will be posted closer to the time of the event. In the meantime, you are urged to identify yourself as a Christian academic to Denny Chadwick, Intervarsity's chaplain to faculty and grad students at KU and K-State. Contact him here. ***Following Christ 2008 is a national conference, hosted by InterVarsity's Graduate Student & Faculty Ministries, of Christian university faculty and grad students, focusing on many relevant questions aimed at helping believers in Jesus to flourish in the academy, centering on the theme of humna flourishing. The conference, the third national conference of this kind, will be hosted from December 27-31, in the heart of downtown Chicago at the Mariott Magnificent Mile. In plenary sessions and discipline-specific tracks, we look forward to helping delegates draw connections between our theme and their daily work, research, and study. The conference will include all the things we appreciate most about InterVarsity events -- solid biblical exposition, musical worship, Bible study, prayer, and multi-media produced by 2100 -- all centered on the theme of human flourishing. In addition to tracks divided by discipline, we will offer cross-disciplinary seminars on topics such as AIDS and spiritual formation. Following Christ 2008 will begin on December 27 with up to five optional one-day sessions for groups such as the Emerging Scholars Network and Professional Schools Ministries. The main conference itself will commence on December 28 and end in the morning of December 31. Register (and seek scholarship help) at Following Christ. |
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