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).
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 15)
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).
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. (Read More).
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Apr. 5)
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).
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. (Read More)
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting (Nov. 10)
The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion group will highlight three pieces of 20th century writing from Fr. Ted Hesburgh, Kate Cohen, and Alicia Suskrin Ostriker. (Read More)
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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]