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Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group, March 22

March 15, 2019

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, March 22, 3:30 to 5 p.m., in the Clark Library Conference Room (please note the change of venue from previous meetings this year). We will be reading “Archbishop Desmond Tutu: The Essence of What It Means to be Human” by Keymanthri Moodley and the Introduction and Chapter 6 of “Ecological Education and Spirituality” from Laudato Sí by Pope Francis. Readings are available on the FILDG page of the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Filed Under: 03-11-2019, 03-18-2019, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Garaventa Center Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Garaventa Center, Norah Martin

Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting Jan. 25

January 18, 2019

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, January 25, 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will be discussing “The Poison We Pick” by Andrew Sullivan, “Have Smartphones Destroyed a Generation?” by Jean M. Twenge, and the poem “What We Want” by Linda Pastan. Readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served. For more information contact Norah Martin, philosophy, at martinn@up.edu.

Filed Under: 01-07-2019, 01-14-2019, 01-21-2019, 12-17-2018, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Nov. 9

November 2, 2018

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be held on Friday, November 9, at 3:30 p.m., in the Murphy Room, according to Norah Martin. The group will be discussing “Seeing is Believing: What Flannery O’Connor Meant by ‘Vision” by Cassandra Nelson, “Practice Makes Reception: The Role of Contemplative Ritual in Approaching Art” by Joanna Ziegler, and the poem “Paul’s Letter to the Corinthians” by Matthew Minicucci. All readings can be found at this link. Refreshments will be served. All faculty and staff are welcome.

Filed Under: 10-15-2018, 10-22-2018, 10-29-2018, 11-05-2018, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Friday, March 23

March 16, 2018

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, March 23,  from 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will be discussing “Reflections on the Cosmic Perspective” excerpted from Neil deGrasse Tyson’s 2017 book Astrophysics for People in a Hurry and the poem “The Brain is Wider Than the Sky” by Emily Dickinson. Readings are available on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Norah Martin, philosophy, at martinn@up.edu.

Filed Under: 02-26-2018, 03-05-2018, 03-12-2018, 03-19-2018, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Jan. 26

January 12, 2018

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group is Friday, January 26, 3:30-5:30 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will be discussing the article “On Campus, Failure Is on the Syllabus” by Jessica Bennett and the poem “Richard Corey” by Edwin Arlington Robinson. Readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
For more information contact Norah Martin, philosophy, at martinn@up.edu.

Filed Under: 01-15-2018, Academics, Campus Services, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Nov. 10

November 3, 2017

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, November 10, at 3:30 p.m., in the Murphy Conference Room. The group will be discussing the article “We Weren’t Built to Live in the Moment” by Martin Seligman and John Tierney and the poem “Nostalgia” by Billy Collins. Readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Filed Under: 10-30-2017, 11-06-2017, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Garaventa Center, Norah Martin

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Sept. 29

September 22, 2017

The first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group for the 2017-18 year will be Friday, September 29, at 3:30 p.m., in the Franz Hall Murphy Conference Room. The group will discuss the article “The Free Banquet: The Case for Universal Basic Income” by George Scialabba and the poem “To be of use” by Marge Piercy. Readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Filed Under: 09-18-2017, 09-25-2017, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, March 31

March 24, 2017

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, March 31, 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will be reading three short articles: Andrew Reiner, “Teaching Men to Be Emotionally Honest;” Sarah Brown and Katherine Mangan, “What ‘Safe Spaces’ Really Look Like on College Campuses;” and Christine Emba, “Why Not Being ‘A Racist’ Isn’t Enough.” Links to the readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Filed Under: 03-06-2017, 03-13-2017, 03-27-2017, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Feb. 3

November 18, 2016

staff & faculty portraits

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, February 3, at 3:30 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will be discussing “Hope Reimagined” from Krista Tippett’s 2016 book Becoming Wise: An Enquiry into the Art and Mystery of Living, and the poem “Atwater Kent” by William Stafford. The readings are on the Garaventa Center website (http://tinyurl.com/jcguthw). All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

For more information contact Norah Martin, philosophy, at x7138 or martinn@up.edu.

Filed Under: 11-21-2016, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Nov. 4

October 28, 2016

staff & faculty portraits

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be at 3:30 p.m. on Friday, November 4, in the Murphy Conference Room. The group will be discussing Alison Mountz (with others) “Slow Scholarship: A Feminist Politics of Resistance Through Collective Action in the Neoliberal University” and “iPoem,” by George Bilgere. Readings are available on the Garaventa Center website. Refreshments will be served. All faculty and staff are welcome.

For more information contact Norah Martin, philosophy, at x7138 or martinn@up.edu.

Filed Under: 09-26-2016, 10-31-2016, Academics, Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Tagged With: Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Norah Martin

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