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Center for Faith and Inquiry

The Center for Faith and Inquiry is dedicated to forming the thoughtful Christian for global engagement.

The Center for Faith and Inquiry is dedicated to the development and the promotion of intentional Christian scholarship that addresses matters of vital concern in the church, academy and contemporary society. We seek to foster accessible and stimulating scholarly conversations across disciplines, across disagreements, and across faiths by welcoming speakers to campus, hosting academic events, and by supporting faculty and student research. Through this work, we bring the rich resources of the Christian faith to bear on key academic questions and debates in contemporary culture.

The One and the Many: Making Connections, Creating Conversations

“Exploring the interplay between our unity and our diversity”

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March event speakers

Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah

How God Brings Reformation Through Diverse Voices

MARCH 19
REV. DR. SOONG-CHAN RAH

Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah will discuss the move towards “deconstruction” has made many Evangelicals nervous about the future of the church in America. However, if the church were able to expand our vision to see how God works in the global context, we may begin the see God’s work of reformation.

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Dr. Michelle Loyd-Paige

The Struggle is Real - How We Derail Diversity Efforts and What to Do About It

MARCH 26
DR. MICHELLE LOYD-PAIGE

Diversity is both a gift and mandate from God. Research demonstrates time and time again that our communities and organizations benefit when diversity is present and celebrated. However, achieving the kind of compositional diversity we long for is a struggle. Our diversity efforts sometimes fail, even with the best of intentions. Why? What can we do? In this lecture, Dr. Loyd-Paige will share lessons from her experience as a diversity educator and insights from her book, The Diversity Playbook, on why diversity efforts fail and what it takes to SHIFT from struggling to flourishing. 

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