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| Spring 2003 Newsletter - Volume 1, Issue
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The Lilly Vocation Grant Newsletter
is published twice each year, in fall and spring.
An
Update on Our Progress
 Dale
Soden, Co-Director
After a hectic year, we have just completed our first stage of a five-year
grant, "Discerning Vocation: Community, Context and Commitment,"
awarded to Whitworth University from the Lilly Endowment, Inc. My co-director,
Terry McGonigal, and I have been scrambling to get off the ground the
many initiatives we proposed for the first year of the grant. To say the
least, it has been exciting to see what these new resources have brought
to the Whitworth campus and the difference they're beginning to make in
students' lives. more...
Luther and Calvin on Vocation
Dale Soden, Co-Director
The opportunity to connect a theological perspective with the concept
of vocation led me to engage in more personal reflection on what the Reformed
Tradition has to say about these matters. It was helpful for me to think
about what Martin Luther and John Calvin believed about the idea of work
itself, and so I thought I would share some of what the two of them have
to say about vocation. more...
Professor's Book Helps Students
Connect Belief, Vocation and Life on the Job
Virginia Whitehouse, Associate Professor of Communication
Studies
The subtitle of the Lilly-supported vocations guide
for student interns reveals its mission: The Workbook That Will Make You
Think. more...
Spending the Summer with Emmanuel
Presbyterian Church
 James
Fischl '03 -- Religion Major
A few months previous to my 2002 Lilly Summer Research
Internship, I would have told you that my summer job of research work
was nothing more than that: a job, something to stave off bills and help
fund my senior year at Whitworth University. But by the end I had come to
see this dive into the history of Emmanuel Presbyterian Church of Spokane,
Wash., as a blessing. more...
Highlights from Year One
Public Lectures
(Free Admission)
- Dr. Dave Arnott, Vocation and Faith Integration
Lecture, sponsored by the School of Global Commerce and Management.
February 20, 12 p.m., Hixson Union Building Catering Rooms.
- Reverend Samuel McKinney, The Struggle for
Civil Rights in Seattle: The Role of the Black Church. March
5, 7:30 p.m., Seeley G. Mudd Chapel.
- Dr. Mark Valeri, Forgiveness as Christian
Practice in Early America: From the Puritans to Jonathan Edwards.
May 1, 2003, 7:30 p.m., Seeley G. Mudd Chapel.
Physics
and the God of Abraham Conference, March 31 - April 3
Sponsored by Whitworth University and Gonzaga University
- Dr. Eric Kincanon, Fundamental Questions About
God's Relation to Time. March 31, 7 p.m., Gonzaga University
School of Law, Room 143.
- Dr. William Lane Craig, Beyond the Big Bang.
April 1, 7 p.m., Gonzaga University School of Law, Barbieri Courtroom.
- Dr. William Lane Craig, God and Time.
April 2, 7 p.m., Seeley G. Mudd Chapel.
- Rev. Robert J. Spitzer, S.J., Proto-Time
Asymmetry and Big Bang Cosmology. April 3, 7 p.m., Gonzaga University
School of Law, Barbieri Courtroom.
Conference
on Faith and Work, April 9-10
Sponsored by Whitworth University and Gonzaga University
- Dr. Laura Nash, Church on Sunday, Work on
Monday: The Challenge of Fusing Christian Values with Business Life.
April 9, 7:30 p.m., Seeley G. Mudd Chapel.
- Pastor's Luncheon and Workshop with Dr. Jack Fortin, The
Congregation as a Catalyst for Taking One's Faith into the Workplace.
April 10, 12-3 p.m., Hixson Union Building.
- Dr. Gregory Pierce, Spirituality of Work:
An Oxymoron? April 10, 7:30 p.m., Gonzaga University Law School.
Application deadlines for 2003-2004 student programs:
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