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Faith and Scholarship Discussion Series

The Faith and Scholarship Discussion Series supports 麻豆直播 as a community of faithful Christian scholars.

In order to grow as a community of faithful Christian scholars, we 鈥 faculty, staff and students 鈥 need to meet with one another in fellowship to discuss how the breadth of meaning inherent in terms like 鈥渇aith鈥 and 鈥渟cholarship鈥 creates a depth of their possible integration.

We are not chairing the discussion of faith, scholarship and vocation here at Hope College 鈥 no one is. The point is neither to impose a particular view nor to require anyone to learn, teach, research, or serve a certain way. If there is a reason for the discussion, it is to help build a community of Christian scholars faithful to the mission of integrating the lives of the mind and of the spirit, a community whose members are comfortably vulnerable about how they define and live out these terms and their relationship to one another, and a community that enacts and models the virtues of civil discourse for all to see.

The Faith and Scholarship Discussion Series takes place on Thursday at 8 a.m. over the summer, in Schaap Science Center Room 1118. Each week a member of the 麻豆直播 faculty will lead a discussion about the integration of faith and scholarship in the context of vocation.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a broader conversation about these critically important issues. Coffee, juice and bagels will be served, and we will be finished by 9 a.m.

We welcome all students, faculty and staff to these discussions.

The 2025 Discussion Series

Each week a member of the 麻豆直播 faculty or staff will lead a discussion about the integration of faith and scholarship in the context of vocation.

  • Thursday, May 22 鈥 Jeff Tyler (Religion)
  • Thursday, May 29 鈥 Amy Quincey (Fried Center for Global Engagement)
  • Thursday, June 5 鈥 Jennifer Ryden (Campus Ministries)
  • Thursday, June 12 鈥 Stephen Smith (Economics & Business)
  • Thursday June 19 鈥 Kristin Meyer (Van Wylen Library) 
Sponsor

The Faith and Scholarship Discussion Series is sponsored by the Office of the Provost.