In November, we launched this website to provide a forum for discussion of spiritual issues. Since then, we have published 22 new pieces (approximately one every three days). The site has been visited about 1,000 times. Not a bad start.
Our goal is to provide a place where students can engage in open discussion about spiritual issues that matter to them. We welcome non-students and want them to join in the discussion. The world is a diverse place, and people of different ages and backgrounds need to learn how to listen to one another. We need each other, more than ever before. Because we are an undergraduate student organization, we need to focus on issues relevant to students and campus life. Yet we recognize that there is a huge world out there beyond the boundaries of the campus, and that world — some would call it “the real world” — matters to us as well.
“I hope I’ve confused you a little bit.” Peter Kreeft intrigued the approximately 100-member audience with this concluding statement of his lecture titled “The Philosophy of Jesus.”
I’ve been trying to figure out what’s wrong with the Christian church these days. Some of my friends see back-biting, infighting, inter-church animosity. Others see a lack of church growth. I suspect they are mostly concerned with the lack of growth in numbers, which I agree is serious. But that is a sign of the lack of inner growth, which is my main concern.
A Thanksgiving Reflection
November 26, 2009 in Commentary by admin
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