Posted on June 13, 2024
Let's look back! From groundbreaking research to the spreading of Shalom to athletic triumphs, 2024 was a memorable journey for the Gordon College community. In recognition of the faithful collaboration that makes our community unique, let’s revisit 24 highlights from the 2023–24 academic year.
Posted on May 23, 2024
Grace Stinger ’24 graduated exactly 100 years after her great-grandmother, but she's only one of many Gordon grads in her family, as she discovered thanks to the Gordon Archives.
Posted on May 6, 2024
On April 27 a team of Gordon students hosted and competed in the National Student Advertising Competition for the New England district, placing third for a second year in a row, led by Professor Greg Smith and project manager Gabby Bergstrom ’24.
Posted on April 24, 2024
For Symposium 2024, students led and participated in debates, lectures, discussions and even hands-on activities with their peers and campus community to discuss the theme of "The One and the Many."
Posted on April 23, 2024
On Thursday, April 11, Gordon College hosted its annual Crum Lecture, a 30-year legacy event in honor the late Professor Terrelle B. Crum, who was the dean of Barrington College before it merged with Gordon in 1985. This year Whitnah presented the lecture, “Faith and the Fragility of Justice: Religious Responses to Gender-Based Violence in South Africa.”
Posted on April 5, 2024
At a Center for Faith and Inquiry (CFI) event on Tuesday, March 26, Dr. Michelle Loyd-Paige—author of The Diversity Playbook and a 30-year veteran in the diversity education field—talked about the different levels of diversity, the struggles against it and how to practically take action to establish it.
Posted on March 28, 2024
Rev. Dr. Soong-Chan Rah spoke at a March 19 Center for Faith and Inquiry event that the American church isn't deconstructing, but reforming and growing thanks to increasing diversity. We can help our church by finding unity in our shared love for Christ.
Posted on March 21, 2024
On Thursday, March 14, Gordon College hosted its annual Franz Lecture, a legacy event that’s been happening for over 30 years in honor of the late Professor David Franz, a visionary who helped shape the social sciences at Gordon. This year Young presented the lecture, based on his newly published book "Adam Smith’s Theory of Value and Distribution: Economics as a Moral Science Once Again."
Posted on March 13, 2024
Gordon’s interactive production of the musical Godspell—performing from March 15–16 and 21–23—gives the iconic 1960s show a modern refresh to make it fun and compelling for Christian and non-Christian audiences alike.
Posted on February 8, 2024
On February 5 the Center for Faith and Inquiry and the Princemere Writers Series collaborated to invite Irish poet Micheal O’Siadhail, who presented his own approach to navigating questions of self and service—poetry. An internationally acclaimed and award-winning sonneteer, his newest book Desire asks, what is it that we really desire, and what is truly worth desiring?
Posted on January 29, 2024
On January 23 Gordon’s Center for Faith and Inquiry (CFI) hosted its first event of the semester on its year long theme of "The one and the many.” Ivy George, professor of sociology, explained in her talk, “Oneing and Hospitality” the beginnings of a new project that examines the Christian’s role of hospitality in restoring our country to peace and unity through the concept of “oneing.” To restore our relationships with each other, we first need to restore our relationship with God and our posture towards gratitude and wonder.
Posted on May 16, 2022
Gordon College’s 130th Commencement graduated 339 undergraduate students and 121 advanced degrees on May 14, 2022.