Posted on September 18, 2018
Receiving the 'Permesso di Soggiorno': 20 Years of Gordon in Orvieto
Over a decade of conversations, including during a sojourn in Italy, John Skillen and Bruce Herman thoughtfully gave shape to an innovative study abroad program, which piloted in 1998 in the small, historic Italian hill-city of Orvieto.
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Posted on October 3, 2017
Romans IN Rome: New Opportunities Abroad for Biblical Studies
Dr. Steven Hunt, professor of New Testament, taught his new class “Romans in Rome” for the first time this summer as a part of the Gordon IN Orvieto program.
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Posted on August 22, 2017
Drawn Back to the Land of the Bible: 20 and Counting
“My hope for the students’ participation is that their lives will be transformed in the decades to come as they learn to read Scripture through the added lens of geography,” says Dr. Elaine Phillips of the Israel Seminar.
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Posted on December 16, 2016
Exhibition Opening in Orvieto
An exhibition of student artwork, poetry and reflections from the course of a semester in Orvieto, Italy.
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Posted on November 16, 2016
Tales of a Nomad in New Zealand: Why Leaving Isn’t Goodbye
"Alone atop a rock looking out over the Pacific, I listened to the brand new Conor Oberst album 'Ruminations,' took the title to heart and did some thinking," writes Sierra Flach ’18 of her final days in New Zealand.
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Posted on September 28, 2016
Withdrawing to Gain Strength in Orvieto: One Student’s Reflections on a Semester Abroad
"Together we withdrew momentarily only to immerse ourselves again in the quintessential Italian hill town and the many characters who call it home."
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Posted on September 27, 2016
Tales of a Nomad in New Zealand: Travels and Transitions
Bell writer Sierra Flach ’18 has traded her Road Hall at Gordon for the rolling hills of New Zealand, where she will be bringing the latest from her study abroad adventure in the last stop before Antarctica.
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Posted on August 24, 2016
Toward Global Good—From Rwanda to Texas
One summer, 8,500 miles: Nathalia Moran ’18 finds the overlap between her Rwanda Seminar experience and a Texas-based nonprofit internship.
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Posted on August 22, 2016
Tales of a Nomad in New Zealand: Leaving and Arriving
Bell writer Sierra Flach ’18 has traded her Road Hall at Gordon for the rolling hills of New Zealand, where she will be bringing the latest from her study abroad adventure in the last stop before Antarctica.
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Posted on June 22, 2016
An Un-Belize-able Experience
Abby Mantey ’18, a biology major (pre-medical track) and international student from Ghana, writes about her experience on the “Health and Healthcare in the Developing World” seminar in Belize this summer.
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Posted on April 8, 2016
12 of the Best Things about Going to Gordon
"Fact: I’m no longer a Gordon student. But I can confidently look back on my time at Gordon and say those years were some of the best in my life so far. To be specific, let’s take a look at 12 of the best things, in my humble opinion and in no particular order, about being a Gordon student."
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Posted on April 1, 2016
Real Presence in Orvieto
“My real presence was found in an ancient Italian town that was sculpted right from the mountain that it sits upon, and it is called Orvieto,” writes Theresa Sterling ’16.
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