CFI Events
This Year's Theme: Ready to Listen, Learning to Talk
At Gordon College, much of our time is spent in pursuit of truth. In classrooms, in our experiments and our term papers, in our chapel servics and our Bible studies, we are concerned with finding truth as students, as professors, as Christians. However, finding ways to talk about truth - what we know, what we believe - is also something we find challenging. And what is true at Gordon can be even more difficult in our families, in our churches, in our nation.
CFI seeks to help our community learn how to talk - which may require also learning how to listen. How can we find ways to engage genuinely with each other, even when we disagree about important things? How does our pursuit of what is true and just and beautiful relate to how we listen and talk with other about these things? And even further, are there ways that we might begin practicing these habits? Over the 2024-2025 year, join faculty, students and campus guests, as we explore these vital questions together.
| Date | Title | Speaker | Time & Location |
|---|---|---|---|
March 4 | Dealing with Diversity Differently: A Case for Covenantal Pluralism | Dennis Hoover | Reception: 4 p.m. Discussion: 4:30 p.m. KOSC Chair's Room + Loggia |
March 18 | Calm Presence in an Anxious Culture | Rich Villodas | Reception: 4 p.m. Discussion: 4:30 p.m. KOSC MacDonald Auditorium |
April 10 | CFI Symposium Keynote: Common Good Pluralism? American Politics After the Age of Neutrality Learn more → | Ian Marcus Corbin | Reception: 1:30 p.m. Discussion: 2 p.m. KOSC Chair's Room + Loggia |
Symposium 2025: Ready to Listen, Learning to Talk
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 10th!
How do I get involved?
CFI welcomes proposals from any and all majors! Apply by April 2nd with your proposal for a 40-50 minute event that will get advertised on campus and be open to all. We especially welcome out-of-the-box thinking to connect your ideas with the overarching theme.