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Date: Wednesday, March 1, 2017 Time: 12:15 to 1:15 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (room above the food court) Speaker: Dr. Shiyou Chen, UGA Professor, Dept. of Physiology and Pharmacology Topic: Chinese Student Ministry As someone whose life was changed by Christ as a postgraduate fellow, Dr. Chen leads a campus ministry focused on helping Chinese students investigate the […]

Date: Thursday, February 2, 2017 Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (room above the food court) Speaker: Andrew Wilkin, Exec. Director of the Bigger Vision Homeless Shelter, Athens Topic: Homelessness, Poverty, and What’s Being Done About It Andrew Wilkin is a 2012 graduate of the UGA Terry College of Business. As a college student

Date: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 Time: 12:15 to 1:15 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (room above the food court) Speaker: Dr. Mike Licona, Risen Jesus Ministry Mike has a Ph.D. in New Testament (University of Pretoria) and completed all requirements “with distinction” and the highest marks. He formed Risen Jesus ministry in 1997 (formerly TruthQuest Ministry until 2001

Date: Thursday, December 1, 2016 Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (room above the food court) Speaker: Prof. Phil Smith, UGA Professor of Trumpet, Hugh Hodgson School of Music William F. and Pamela P. Prokasy Professor in the Arts; New York Philharmonic Principal Trumpet 1978-2014 Topic: “Is Jesus Center Stage?” Abstract: Does Christ need to be brought back

Date: Wednesday, November 2, 2016 Time: 12:15 to 1:15 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (room above the food court) Speaker: Dr. Derrick Lemons, UGA Asst. Professor of Religion Topic: Theologically-Engaged Anthropology: What Can Theology Contribute to Cultural Anthropology and Ethnography? Abstract:  There is a great need in anthropology for a theologically-engaged theoretical framework. Anthropologists experience new insights when they

Date: Thursday, October 6, 2016 Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (room above the food court) Speaker: Dan Crescenzo, Ph.D. Candidate, UGA Dept. of Philosophy Topic: “On the Importance of Preparatory Apologetics” Abstract: Often nonbelievers have a dismissive attitude toward the idea of a supreme Creator and Savior. However formidable an apologist’s arguments may be,

Date: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 Time: 12:15 to 1:15 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (room above the food court) Speaker: Dr. Marshall Shepherd, UGA Professor of Geography Georgia Athletic Association Distinguished Professor  & Director for Program in Atmospheric Sciences; former president of the American Meteorological Society Topic: “A Faith-Based Case for Addressing Climate Change” Abstract:  Science and faith are not inconsistent.

  Dr. Troy Van Voorhis, the Haslam and Dewey Professor of Chemistry at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be speaking on Tuesday, August 23, at 5 pm in the Miller Learning Center room 102. His topic will be “Can Science Answer All the Important Questions of the Universe?” This lecture is open to the whole campus.

Join us for our annual kickoff gathering on Saturday evening, August 13, from 5:30 to 7 pm at Central Presbyterian Church (380 Alps Rd, Athens, GA 30606). We’ll gather in the fellowship hall for a potluck dinner. The CFF will provide chicken and drinks, and we ask that everyone else bring a side dish (salad,

Our last meeting of the school year is over and there are no large group meetings planned for the summer. However, check back here in July for information about our fall kickoff event in August. If you are new to UGA and have a question about the Christian Faculty Forum (or you’ve been around and