EnlightenNext and What Is Enlightenment? Magazine Cambridge & Lenox, Massachusetts; New York, New York; and London, England With wide-ranging outreach to the general public, the Voices from the Edge network provides opportunities for public lectures, roundtable discussions, learning symposia, workshops, conferences, discussion forums, and advanced reading groups for the readers of What Is Enlightenment? Magazine…
Department of Pastoral Care and Education Thomas Jefferson University Hospital Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “Conversations” hosts a number of activities within and extending beyond the Jefferson campus. The highlight of the group’s activities is a daylong symposium with an internationally or nationally known keynote speaker and breakout groups. Other activities include bi-monthly “Spiritual Care Grand Rounds” presentations,…
Calvin College Grand Rapids, Michigan The long-term goal of this initiative is to launch two fairly specific investigative team efforts each year, intended to move from an initial, Calvin-based formal discussion group through a number of expanding stages and on to a broader dissemination of results. The two themes planned are the role of hermeneutics…
Goshen College Goshen, Indiana Goshen College has hosted the Goshen Conference on Religion and Science (GCRS) since 2001. MRSS was formed with a core planning group of the regular participants from four church-affiliated institutions in geographic proximity to one another: Goshen College, Bethel College, the University of St. Francis, and Bluffton University. These institutions are…
Westmont College Santa Barbara, California Inaugurated in 2003, this project is committed to facilitating corporate “hearing” within scientific and religious disciplines and within cultural communities through a series of luncheon forums, public colloquia, inter-institutional, and intimate, invitational settings. Dialogues are cultivated in the academic community in “faculty forums”, with faculty and students of diverse disciplines,…
Northwest Nazarene University Nampa, Idaho A faculty-based initiative, this society’s steering committee is composed of faculty from Northwest Nazarene University, as well as Albertson College of Idaho. Both institutions are located near the Treasure Valley of southwestern Idaho – the most heavily populated region of the state. The committee represents a range of disciplines including…
Elizabethtown College Elizabethtown, Pennsylvania The Elizabethtown College Center for Science and Religion is devoted to multidisciplinary, public and cross-institutional dialogue on key issues in the field of science and religion. In addition to regular local meetings of core members and campus-wide events, the Center, often in conjunction with other institutions, devotes itself to public lectures…
Fairfield University Fairfield, Connecticut This society invites faculty, staff, students, and community partners to come together to enhance science and religion dialogue on the Fairfield University campus and surrounding area. The society is housed within the Ignatian Residential College, a community of scholars, students, and citizens with a strong conviction of the importance of examining…
Greenville College Greenville, Illinois The Steering Committee of this society includes faculty from the departments of philosophy, chemistry, biology, theology, psychology, and mathematics. Each year, the committee selects one text, as the foundational reading and catalyst for monthly meetings and discussion sessions for society participants. At least once per semester, a local clergy member is…
The University of the South (Sewanee) Sewanee, Tennessee Members of the University’s School of Theology, as well as Biology, Chemistry, Economics, and Physics Departments comprise the core group of this society, acting as a working “prototype” for Province of Sewanee dioceses. The society is hosted by the School of Arts and Sciences and the School…