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Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 15)

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, November 15 from 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will be discussing Earth’s Mysterious, Deep-Dwelling Microbes We Are Only Starting to Understand by Ferris Jabr and the poem Stone by Charles Simic. 

All readings can be found on the FILDG section of the Garaventa Center website.

All faculty and staff are welcome. Participation in the FILDG will be considered regular work time for staff, per supervisory approval. Refreshments will be served.

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group (Sept. 20)

We invite all faculty and staff to join the first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group (FILDG) for the 2024-25 academic year. We will be discussing Tears and Ashes by Vincent Miller and The Last Two Northern White Rhinos on Earth by Sam Anderson.

When: Friday, September 20 3:30-5:00 p.m.

Where: Franz 426 (the Murphy Room).

All readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website’s FILDG page.

FILDG Readings

All faculty and staff are welcome. Participation in the FILDG will be considered regular work time for staff, per supervisory approval. Refreshments will be served.

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Apr. 5)

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, April 5, 3:30-5:30 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will be discussing three readings by Vandana Shiva, who will be giving the September 2024 Zahm Lecture: “Everything I know I Learned in the Forest,” “Women and the Gendered Politics of Food,” and Introduction to Earth Democracy: Justice, Sustainability and Peace.

All readings can be found on the FILDG section of the Garaventa Center website: https://www.up.edu/garaventa/fildg/index.html.

All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Feb. 9)

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, Feb. 9 from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will be discussing the Introduction to Generous Thinking: A Radical Approach to Saving the University by Kathleen Fitzpatrick.

Readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website: https://www.up.edu/garaventa/fildg/index.html.

Refreshments will be served. All faculty and staff are welcome.

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 10)

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion group will be Friday, November 10, from 3:30-5 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will be discussing Fr. Ted Hesburgh CSC et.al (1967): Land-O-Lakes Statement on the Idea of a Catholic University, Kate Cohen’s recent opinion piece in the Washington Post “America Doesn’t Need more God. It Needs More Atheists,” and Alicia Suskrin Ostriker’s poem Fix.

All  readings are available on the Garaventa website, https://www.up.edu/garaventa/fildg. 

Refreshments will be served. All faculty and staff are welcome.

Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group Re-Scheduled (Apr. 14)

To accommodate the staff/faculty retreat being held on March 31, the final gathering of the Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group will move to Friday, April 14, 3:30 p.m. in the Murphy Room of Franz Hall. All are welcome to explore the poem “Outing, Iowa,” the introduction to Alice Dreger’s Galileo’s Middle Finger, and Alexander King Sample’s recently issued document “A Catholic Response to Gender Identity Theory.” All are available on the Garaventa Center’s website at this link. Refreshments and convivial company served.

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Jan. 27)

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday, January 27, 3:30–5:30 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will discuss Montas, “Making Peace with the Unconscious: Freud” (excerpted from Rescuing Socrates) and Ziegler, “Practice Makes Reception.” All readings are available on the Garavena Center website. Refreshments will be served. All faculty and staff are welcome. 

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 11) 

The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, November 11, from 3:30–5 p.m. in the Murphy Room. We will discuss “Tears and Ashes: Three Ways of Looking at Recent Wildfires in the West” by Vincent Miller (article from March 2022 Commonweal), “Innovations for Eco-Spiritual Practice” by Rachel Wheeler (chapter from Eco-spirituality: An Introduction, 2022, Fortress Books), and the Mary Oliver Poem “In Blackwater Woods.” All readings can be found in the FILDG section of the Garaventa Center website: https://www.up.edu/garaventa/fildg/index.html. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served. 

Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group (Sept. 16)

The first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group for the 2022-23 academic year will be on Friday, September 16, 3:30 p.m.–5 p.m., in the Murphy Room (Franz Hall). We will discuss “Seeing” by Annie Dillard (from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek), “Silence Brought Me a Community and an Escape” by Sara Novic, and the poem “Hurrahing in Harvest” by Gerard Manley Hopkins. Readings can be found on the Garaventa Center website: https://www.up.edu/garaventa/fildg/index.html. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.

Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Feb. 19: All Welcome!

The Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will have its only meeting of the spring semester on Friday February 19 3:30-5 p.m. on Zoom, according to Norah Martin, philosophy. The group will be discussing “Stewardship and the Roots of the Ecological Crisis” by Brian Henning, “Entering the Bardo” by Joanna Macy, and James Wright’s poem “Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island Minnesota.” The readings and the Zoom link can be found on the Garaventa Center website. All faculty and staff are welcome to attend.