Center for Faith and Culture offers flourishing classes

12/18/2024

The Center for Faith and Culture's personal flourishing courses continue for the spring semester. Taught by local faith leaders and Jewell faculty on faith as it relates to literature, science, politics, the arts, music, health, finance and Biblical studies, sessions are four weeks each, offered at a Center for Faith and Culture partner congregation. 

Alumni and friends are welcome to participate. Classes are $45 each. Courses are free for members of our partner congregations and Jewell students and staff.

> Registration

• Picking up rice in a church…how the Beatles crafted songs that carefully blended music and lyrics to reflect both intense humanity and grounded spirituality
  Dr. Ian Coleman, Professor of Music, William Jewell College
  6:30-7:45 p.m., Wednesdays, Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12
  Village Presbyterian Church, 6641 Mission Rd., Prairie Village, KS 66208

• Bridge Building Toward a Flourishing Life for All: Deepening Solidarity in the Quest for Social & Racial Justice
  Rev. Dr. Vernon Percy Howard, Jr., Pastor, St. Mark’s Church and Jewell Distinguished Alumni honoree
  6:30-7:45 p.m., Wednesdays, Jan. 22, 29, Feb. 5, 12
  Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, 415 W. 13th St, Kansas City, MO 64105
   
• Science Literacy for Responsible Citizenship
  Dr. Blane Baker, Professor of Physics, William Jewell College
  7-8:15 p.m., Tuesdays, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25
  Second Baptist Church, 300 E. Kansas St., Liberty, MO 64068
   
• Hard Conversations: Ways of having constructive dialogue about the Israel-Palestine Conflict
  Dr. Daniel Kotzin, Professor of History, William Jewell College
  6:30-7:45 p.m., Wednesdays, Feb. 5, 12, 19, 26
  Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64112
   
• Praying the Lenten Gospels: Embodying ourselves in the wilderness
  The Very Rev. Dr. Andrew C. Keyse, Dean, Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral
  6:30-7:45 p.m., Wednesdays, March 12, 19, 26, April 2
  Grace and Holy Trinity Cathedral, 415 W. 13th St., Kansas City, MO 64105
   
• Open Minds, Open Hearts, Open Bibles
  Rev. Stephen Underwood, Associate Minister, Community Christian Church
  6:30-7:45 p.m., Wednesdays, March 12, 19, 26, April 9 (course doesn't meet April 2)
  Community Christian Church, 4601 Main St., Kansas City, MO 64112
   
• Are these the Last Days? Christians and the end times
  Rev. Dr. Rodger Nishioka, Senior Pastor, Village Presbyterian Church
  6:30-7:45 p.m., Wednesdays, May 7, 14, 21
  Village Presbyterian Church, Room 132/133, 6641 Mission Rd., Prairie Village, KS 66208