The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be Friday, January 31, 3:30 to 5 p.m., in the Murphy Room. We will discuss Thomas Merton’s essay “Rain and Rhinoceros,” Andrew Guest’s essay in Oregon Humanities, “Pursuing a Science of Happiness,” and the poem “Happiness,” by Jane Kenyon. All readings are available here on the Garaventa Center website’s FILDG page. All faculty and staff are welcome and refreshments will be served.
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Nov. 8
The next meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will be on Friday November 8, from 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room. The group will discuss Phillip Goff’s “Believers Without Belief,” Peter Atterton’s “A God Problem,” and the short film (9 minutes) Powers of Ten. Links to the readings and film can found on the Garaventa Center website’s FILDG page. All faculty and staff are welcome. Refreshments will be served.
Faith & Intellectual Life Discussions Group: Sept. 13
The first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group for the 2019-2020 academic year will be Friday, September 13, 3:30-5 p.m., in the Murphy Room in Franz Hall. We will be discussing “Is There a God?” by Stephen Hawking, “What about God?” by Martin Rees, and the poem “If There Is No God” by Czeslaw Milosz. All 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/environmental studies, at x7138 or martin@up.edu.
Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group, March 22
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.
Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group Meeting Jan. 25
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.Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Nov. 9
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.Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Sept. 28
The first meeting of the Faith and Intellectual Discussion Group for the 2018-19 year will be Friday, September 28, at 3:30 p.m., in the Murphy Room of Franz Hall. The group will discuss the article “A Burnt-Out Case: Aquinas and the Way We Work Now” by Jonathan Malesic, and Chapter 1 from Mary Rose O’Reilley’s The Garden at Night: Burnout & Breakdown in the Teaching Life, “Practicing the Koans of Professional Life.” 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 or x7138.
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Friday, March 23
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.
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Jan. 26
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.
Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Nov. 10
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.