Meetings

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

Date: Thursday, April 7, 2016 Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (Formerly The Taste of Home Cafe) Speaker: Dr. Jeff Dorfman, UGA Professor in Agricultural and Applied Economics Topic: “Economics, Christianity, and Today’s Debate about Inequality” Abstract:  For two thousand years Christian thinkers have debated the topics of wealth, poverty, and charity. In today’s debate about economic inequality,

Date: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 Time: 12:15 to 1:15 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (Formerly The Taste of Home Cafe) Speaker: Dr. Jefrey Breshears, Founder and Director of the Areopagus Christian Study Center, Atlanta, GA Topic: “The Problem of Christian Anti-Intellectualism: Why Christians Should Study Apologetics” Abstract:  We are often reminded that we live in a ‘post-Christian’ culture, but most Christians

Date: Thursday, February 4, 2016 Time: 12:30 to 1:30 pm Location: Tate Room 473 (Formerly The Taste of Home Cafe) Speaker: Dr. Allen Barton – Postdoctoral Research Associate – UGA Center for Family Research Topic: “Marriage, Gratitude, and the Gospel” Abstract: In a recently published study, my colleagues and I found spouses’ sense of feeling gratitude and appreciation from