The following are a grab bag of ideas which have been successfully enacted at peer institutions (mostly Big 10 universities, though you will note several others). They are offered here not as equally useful to us or as a finished agenda, but to spark our own creativity and to empower faithful Christian service with our academic community.

How should we consider our calling to be Christians in the academy?

Faculty Ministry offers a portfolio of resources to assist you in establishing a faculty community on your campus. It includes background materials on the theology and rationale for faculty communities, a bibliography for further reading, and practical resources and examples that have proven successful on a variety of campuses.

"I have a strong feeling that my intellectual formation is just as much a hindrance as a help to prayer."-- Henri Nouwen The Genesee Diary

If you've never attended a Faculty Conference at Cedar Campus, we want to help you understand what you're missing! Here several participants from past conferences share their reflections on what a week at Cedar Campus with other Christian faculty meant to them.

We hear about how little a dollar is worth these days. Hear how much it meant to these emerging faculty.

John Terrill, Director for InterVarsity’s Professional Schools Ministries, and Al Erisman, Director for the Center of Integrity in Business at Seattle Pacific University, reflect on their experience leading an exploratory MBA missions project to the Central African Republic (C.A.R.).

Couldn't make it to the Redeeming Reason conference in Chicago? You can still listen to the talks given by Dallas Willard, Cornelius Plantinga, and others.

In this essay, contributed in 2004, William J. Stuntz, professor at Harvard Law School, shares with us the lessons that his personal experiences with pain have taught him about hope, powerfully capturing the tension (and pain) Christians face as we look forward to Christ's second advent.