PROGRAMS
Come learn with us
Our programming offers opportunities to explore the intellectual and cultural resources of the Christian tradition through stand-alone events, multi-week reading groups, as well as more sustained communities of intellectual and moral formation for students and faculty.
All of our programs embody our commitment to hospitality, generous conversation, and the integration of faith and life.
Classes
Guest Lectures
Reading Groups
Public Theology Reading Group
Led by Drew Cistola
Fridays February 7 - April 11 11:45 a.m. -12:35 p.m.
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Reading articles from Comment Magazine
Public theology is not an easy topic to engage with or to discuss. However, Christians are asked to envision and advocate for a redeemed world on behalf of both our neighbors and our broader world. Public theology asks how our understanding of the incarnation and resurrection of Jesus Christ impacts not only our individual lives, but also the common life we share with our diverse communities.
This group consists of a regular hourly meeting (Friday UF lunch hour) that hosts a discussion on a given article from Comment Magazine. This discussion will be focused on engagement and exploration as opposed to textual critique or assertion of a desired conclusion. This is designed to allow for consistent, but flexible engagement with others on the topic of public theology. A selection of articles will be announced at the beginning of the semester, with openings available for those to be provided from those participating.
Triumph of the Therapeutic
Led by Juan Alcala
Saturdays 2/15; 3/8, 29; 4/19; 5/3 at 9:00 a.m.
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Reading Triumph of the Therapeutic by Philip Rieff.
“In a highly differentiated democratic culture, truly and for the first time, there arose the possibility of every man standing for himself, each at last leading a truly private life, trained to understand rather than love (or hate) his neighbor. Within such privacies, can a man feel well?” In The Triumph of the Therapeutic, Philip Rieff makes the case that the answer is, "No," and that the post-Freudian spirit of clinical care is a movement toward and within such "privacies." Join Juan Alcala—former CSC student, Pascal's Coffeehouse manager, and current doctoral student in clinical psychology—for a reading through this prescient book, which he considers to be a serious indictment of the profession he's training to enter and a piercing premonition of the "therapeutic" culture to which all of us have become habituated.
Special Events
Writing Thank You Notes
Wednesday, April 9 at 11:45 a.m.
CSC Classroom
Join us during the Director's Class hour for a time dedicated to writing thank you notes for our generous donors! Lunch will be provided.
Senior Lunch
Mike Sacasas
Wednesday, April 16 at 11:45 a.m.
CSC Classroom
Seniors, we want to celebrate and encourage you! Come enjoy lunch and discussion about flourishing after college with Executive Director, Mike Sacasas.
Walker Percy Fellows Program
The inaugural Percy Fellows cohort will continue meeting this spring for the first year of the curriculum, focused on the cultivation of the Christian Mind.
During this year, students will receive a grounding in the biblical story and in a Christian understanding of the pursuit of knowledge and wisdom.
Year two will consider the Christian Life, and year three will explore the Christian Imagination.
Mental Health Professions as Christian Vocation
Thursdays March 27, April 3, 10 & 17
CSC Classroom 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Led by Ernesto Escoto, this four-week cohort will partake in discussion and readings exploring the integration of the Christian faith with vocations in the mental health professions.
Current graduate students, practicing professionals, and fourth year undergraduate students looking to apply to a grad program in the mental health field are welcome to participate.
