CFI News

Professor Howard’s recent post on The Anxious Bench blog: “Two Popes Walk into a Bar …”

A more accurate title for this blog would be “Watching the Papal Transition from Catholic Europe.” But I couldn’t resist, even though I don’t have a punch line–or even a joke for that matter.
But down to business.  Read the full article >>

CFI Fellow Ruth Melkonian-Hoover published an article, "Strangers and Evangelicals: Forging a Path for America's Immigrants" in Gordon's Faith+Ideas 
March 12, 2013

It’s an old story, the immigrant story. A biblical one, in fact. Consider Abraham, Moses, even Joseph and Mary, all of whom spent a good part of their lives displaced from their home countries, immigrants, if you will, in search of a promise fulfilled or a promised land. Read the full article >>

A Simple Gesture: JAF Visits the Only Greek Orthodox College in America
February 16, 2012

Max Halik '14 and current participant in the Jerusalem and Athens Forum reflects on his time visiting Hellenic College with fellow JAF students. Read the article here >>

Director Tal Howard gives a talk at the Chesterton House, a Center for Christian Study at Cornell University
November 9, 2012

Drawing from his most recent book God and the Atlantic: America, Europe, and the Religious Divide (Oxford, 2011), Professor Howard will explore some of the long-standing differences between the United States and Western Europe with respect to religion. With an eye on the present but taking a historical approach, he will argue that some of these differences can be best illuminated and understood by analyzing discourse about America among European thinkers in the time of the American and French Revolutions and in the nineteenth century. Read the full event description >>

Watch the talk on the Chesterton House archives >> (scroll)
Watch the talk on YouTube >>

Director Tal Howard Contributes an article, "Two Anniversaries: Vatican II and the 95 Theses" on The Anxious Bench blog
October 15, 2012

Two noteworthy anniversaries are marked this month: the 50th anniversary of the opening of the Second Vatican Council, which occurred on October 11, 1962, and the 495th anniversary of the Protestant Reformation, widely recognized on October 31, but transferred and celebrated by many churches as “Reformation Sunday.”  (This year it occurs on the 27th).  Admittedly, the latter anniversary perhaps only gains greater purchase on our imagination now as it betokens the epochal 500th anniversary, which will be marked worldwide in 2017. Read the full article here >>

New "Center for Faith and Inquiry" Brings Together Christian Scholarship Initiatives
October 4, 2012

With the ongoing mission of fostering top-level scholarship in a uniquely Christian context, Gordon College has launched a new Center for Faith and Inquiry. In an effort to better streamline three longstanding initiatives at the College, i.e., the Center for Christian Studies, the Faith Seeking Understanding (FSU) lecture series, and the Jerusalem and Athens Forum (JAF) honors program, the Center for Faith and Inquiry now builds on the strengths and mission of each. Read story >>

JAF Honors Program Begins 9th Year
August 30, 2012

WENHAM, MA—Since its inception in the fall of 2004, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum (JAF) has welcomed nearly 130 students into the interdisciplinary honors program. Through a great books course in the history of Christian thought and literature, the program strives to help students reflect on the relationship between faith and intellect, deepen their own sense of vocation, and awaken their capacities for intellectual and moral leadership. Read story >>