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
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 […]
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 […]
Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group, Oct. 23: All Welcome!
The Faith and Intellectual Life Discussion Group will have its only meeting of the fall semester on Friday, October 23, 3:30 to 5 p.m., on Zoom, according to Norah Martin, philosophy. We will be discussing “Sacrifice, Race, and Indifference” from Send Lazarus: Catholicism and the Crisis of Neoliberalism by Matthew Eggemeier and Peter Fritz (Fordham […]
Faith & Intellectual Life Discussion Group: Jan. 31
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 […]
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 […]
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” […]
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 […]