CFI Events

This Year's Theme: On Beauty & Justice

At Gordon College, we believe that the justice of God is not only unfolding, comprehensive and absolute, but that it is also something beautiful. If God is beautiful as well as just, then our response to beauty and our response to justice are likely to relate to each other, just as our efforts to create beauty and to create justice will relate to each other.  

CFI seeks to help our community explore these questions. In our efforts at creating beauty, how to do incorporate those who are suffering? And in our efforts for justice, where do we encounter the beauty of God? How might encounters with beauty lead us a concern with justice? Over the 2025-2026 year, join faculty, students and campus guests, as we explore these vital questions together.

Symposium 2026 | On Beauty & Justice

What is Symposium?
Every spring, Gordon College devotes one Thursday, all day long (with no classes) to hear what YOU, the student body, has to say. This is your opportunity to put on an event with your student club, lead a discussion with your friends, create a work of art with your classmates, present your senior thesis, or mount a play with your peers. This is a day meant for the student body to reverse the direction of the classroom and share what they have to say!

When is CFI Symposium?
This year the CFI Symposium will be held on Thursday, April 16th!

How do I get involved?
CFI welcomes proposals from any and all majors! Apply by March 26 with your proposal for a 40-50 minute event that will be advertised on campus and open to all. We especially welcome out-of-the-box thinking to connect your ideas with the overarching theme: beauty & justice.

Symposium Applications will be posted in the spring.