Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group

At the next FILDG meeting we will be discussing the introduction and conclusion from Marcia Bjornerud’s book “Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World.” Refreshments will be served and all faculty and staff are welcome. (Read More).

At the next FILDG meeting, 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 faculty and staff are welcome. (Read More).

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. (Read More).

At our next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group 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. (Read More).

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. (Read More)