Christian Study Centers are vibrant intellectual and spiritual hubs at secular universities where students and scholars explore the intersection of faith and learning. Through lectures, discussions, and fellowship programs housed in welcoming spaces, these centers carry forward higher education’s historic mission by helping Christians in academia integrate their spiritual and intellectual lives while engaging life’s deepest questions of meaning and purpose.

Center

First, we want our center to be a place -- a centering place where curious students, campus ministries, faculty, and community leaders will find hospitality, dialogue, community, and exploration. We believe that the best environment for learning and thinking is curated, beautiful, and welcoming, where people feel challenged and loved.

Second, we want our center to be a person. We believe that all theological and philosophical exploration starts from and returns to the person of Jesus Christ. The rich history of Christian thought offers a reflective center for all areas of inquiry and the overall pursuit of knowledge, truth, goodness, and beauty.

Christian

We believe the university is enriched by the integration of centuries of Christian scholarship and philosophical, ethical, and spiritual contributions to the pursuit of human flourishing. We will design and offer programs that allow students and faculty to explore and interact with those ideas in a way that encourages intellectual and spiritual formation, adds to the overall quality of the university experience, encourages respectful dialogue, and contributes to the overall quality of the university experience.

We want to create a Center that serves the Christian community of the region, promoting unity, theological reflection, and the shared mission of intellectual and spiritual formation.

Study

We want to cultivate the life of the mind. Our programming and engagement will be in concert with the university’s highest aspirations and design intent: to find unity in diversity through research, study, and academic disciplines. We aim to help students and faculty integrate their faith with the rational and practical components of their fields, applying Anselm’s idea of faith-seeking understanding.

For that reason, the center will be a place of intellectual and spiritual formation. Providing fellowships, mentoring, learning and research cohorts, and creative expressions of community flowing from the study of the Christian faith.

“I believe in order to understand; and I understand the better to believe.”  Augustine of Hippo