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Reading Groups Fall 2011
August 17, 2011 | Author | 
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0 CommentsPlease consider joining one of our Fall Reading Groups! Check out the offerings and if interested, fill out a Participant Form and send to Ruth Pszwaro.
Augustine on Sex and Celibacy
Reading: Saint Augustine, Marriage and Virginity
Facilitator: Katy Wehr, MCS, MA
Time: Mondays 6:45-8:00 p.m., beginning Monday, September 19, 2011
Location: MacLaurinCSF Center
The Liturgical Practices of a Christian Mind
Reading: Hans Boersma, Heavenly Participation: The Weaving of a Sacramental Tapestry
Facilitator: Paul Helseth, PhD, MacLaurinCSF Scholar-in-Residence and Professor of Christian Thought, Northwestern College
Time: Tuesdays, 9:30-10:15 a.m., beginning Tuesday, September 20, 2011
Location: MacLaurinCSF Center
Community: Re-Humanizing the Body
Readings: Gilbert Meilaender, Neither Beast Nor God: Recovering a Human Dignity; and Ruth L. Nadelhaft, ed., Imagine What It's Like: A Literature and Medicine Anthology
Facilitators: Dawn Lundgren, RN, MDiv, John Lundgren, MD
Time: Wednesdays, 12:15-1:30 p.m., beginning Wednesday, September 21, 2011
Location: Moos Tower, Room 2-680, University of Minnesota
ENGAGE: Biblical Foundations for a Christian Worldview
Reading: Cornelius Plantinga, Engaging God's World: A Christian Vision of Faith, Learning, and Living
Facilitator: Brad Dewing, MDiv, MacLaurinCSF Coordinator of Community Life
Time: 7:00-8:30 p.m., beginning Wednesday, September 14, 2011 (optional dinner at 6:00 p.m.)
Location: MacLaurinCSF Center
A Theology of the Body
Reading: John Paul II, Man and Woman He Created Them: A Theology of the Body (Michael Waldstein, trans. and ed.)
Facilitators: Bryan Bademan, PhD, MacLaurinCSF Executive Director and David Leonard, PhD
Time: Fridays, 12:00-1:15 p.m., beginning Friday, September 23, 2011
Location: MacLaurinCSF Center
Christ and Culture Re-visited
Reading: James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World
Facilitator: Andrew Garnett
Time and Location: 5:00 p.m., MacLaurinCSF Center
Recovering Our Creative Calling
Reading: Andy Crouch, Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling
Facilitator: Charlie Clauss, Area Director - GFM - North Central Grad and Faculty Ministry; InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Time: Thursdays, 12:00-1:30 p.m., beginning Thursday, September 27, 2011
Location: Stadium Village Church, 808 Essex Street 55414 (Connexions International House)
*Christianity and Nature
Au Sable Grad Fellows Reading Group
Readings: Selected, pre-circulated readings TBD
Facilitator: Ruth Pszwaro, MCS, MacLaurinCSF Program Coordinator
Time: Last Tuesday of each month throughout the academic year, 2:00 p.m.
Location: MacLaurinCSF Center
*This group is in conjunction with the Au Sable Grad Fellows Program. If you are a graduate student (MA, PhD, or Postdoc) in an area of natural sciences, please contact Ruth Pszwaro to learn more about this opportunity.
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