Study Trips

Jerusalem and Athens Forum participants, past and present, are sometimes given the opportunity to take fully or partially subsidized study trips. These ventures also serve to bring together JAF participants from the same and different cohorts.

April 2011 | Roger Williams, Religious Liberty & Providence, Rhode Island
A trip exploring the foundations of religious liberty in the United States.  Beginning the day at the First Baptist Church in America and visiting the Providence Athenaeum, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art and Brown University, participants finished the day with professors and students from the Catholic, Dominican school, Providence College.

January 2011 | Orvieto, Rome and Florence
A pilgrimage to Italy exploring the cardinal virtues in history, theology and art. Participants read Dante's Purgatorio and texts by Josef Pieper on the four cardinal virtues and stayed at the Monastery San Paolo, home to the Gordon-in-Orvieto program.

August 2009 | San Antonio, Texas
A trip to explore the many-layered connections between Christianity and culture by exploring the eighteenth-century missions of "New Spain" established by Franciscan missionaries.

May 2009 | Washington D.C.
A trip for those interested in a vocation in politics or for those desiring to think more reflectively about the meaning of US citizenship today; and focused opportunity to visit the various museums and national exhibits in the capital.

October 2007 | Yale University & New York City
A trip to visit a JAF alumnus studying at Yale and to learn more about the pursuit of post-baccalaureate education; and a continuing trip to New York City to sample many of the cultural offerings there.

May 2006 | Orvieto, Siena, Rome & Assisi, Italy
A trip to Italy to explore the history, theology and art of Roman Catholicism in the early modern and modern era, and to learn about ecumenical relations between Catholics and Protestants. Participants also spent time at the Gordon-in-Orvieto program.