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July 15, 2021 Learning to Teach & Teaching to Learn: A Life of Continuous Learning | Tasha Ryals
Join Tasha for a discussion around education and continuous learning. Whether you are interested in an aspect of education in the classroom, in the lecture hall, or in the community room, this will be a time you don't want to miss!

Participants will reflect on authentic, continuous life-long learning, and how we can serve our Rabbi through that process. Whether you want to be a life-long teacher or a life-long learner, we will discuss how you cannot embody one without the other. Bring questions, bring answers, and bring your best teacher joke!
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45 min
July 09, 2021 Working with Words: How to Speak the Truth when No One Believes in Truth | Dr. Alan Noble
We have more texts to read and more media for writing than at any other point in human history, and yet we struggle more than ever to understand and persuade one another. At the center of this tension is our epistemological crisis--a crisis of meaning and truth that has profound political, social, and theological implications. The challenge for contemporary Christians is how to effectively write and speak the truth when everyone is skeptical, cynical, and ironic.
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42 min
July 02, 2021 Sports and the Kingdom of God | Patricia Sun
Every year, the sports industry brings in billions of dollars, and nearly 75% of youth in America participate in at least one sport. This past year, we've seen sports go through major shifts as COVID-19 forced changes in sports patterns and the intersection between sports and activism came fully into the spotlight. But where do sports intersect with the Kingdom of God? And what does it look like to glorify God through sports? Even though Patricia had zero experience in athletics growing up, she shares about how her unlikely career in sports marketing has opened her eyes to the power of sports.
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40 min
June 10, 2021 The Lifetime Call to Education | Vincent Bacote
We often think of vocation as connected to “job” or “career,” and while that is one part of God’s call on our lives, we are invited to respond in a much broader manner.

This workshop will include both a personal story of a call to education as a career, along with discussion of the common call to all of us to be perpetual students and perpetual educators. God calls us to keep learning and to keep “passing it on.”
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45 min
June 10, 2021 Christ, Wind Turbines, and Aircraft Engines | Kevin Kinzie
Can your faith in Jesus Christ really make you a better engineer? Absolutely! And a better doctor, business leader, teacher, mechanic, restaurant worker—or whatever is your day job. But your faith doesn't impact your vocation automatically. You have to understand how your faith works in the workplace. Just like education and training in your college major, it takes learning, practice, and intentionality to let your faith in Jesus be the thing that navigates you through your career. In this workshop, we will talk about how a career that is built on the foundation of Jesus Christ and God's Word will bring you peace, joy, and excitement, no matter what career field you choose. It's not rocket science!
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36 min
June 10, 2021 Science & Faith in the Time of COVID-19 | Ben McFarland
COVID-19 challenged us to reveal what we really believe in, and it changed life away from normal in a way that continues to this day. Trusting God in the face of so much uncertainty requires faith in every area of life and in all kinds of vocations, including laboratory research. Join Ben McFarland, a professor in biochemistry and structural immunology at a Christian university, as he looks back on how God’s nature and faithfulness showed itself through the consistent science of viruses and health, even during this difficult and inconsistent year.

As the classroom and laboratory moved to a computer screen through remote learning, my students and I learned new things about the virus through research into its evolution. This research came from a conviction that God made the world in a way that we can take it apart and, by God’s grace, put it back together again with medicine and vaccines. The students who took part in this process created new knowledge that let us understand more about this virus. God gave us hope and healing, even in unprecedented times, through careful, humble science.

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49 min
June 03, 2021 Caring For, and Beyond, the Body | Jessica Haley
Jesus healed people. Paul was healed as part of his conversion to Christianity. And the whole arc of the gospel is that God is healing and redeeming the world. It is no mistake that in Genesis, God completes his creation by breathing life into a body—our bodies—and therefore, our health matters to God.

So where do we fit into God's story as future healers and healthcare workers? Is there anything unique about working for the health of others as a Christian? In this session, we will explore these questions and more, focusing on health justice and equity, rest and boundaries in healthcare, when medical ethics meet Christian ethics, health systems versus health care, and being a faithful steward of your training and education. Whether you are an aspiring nurse, physician, midwife, pharmacist, physical therapist, or any other member of the healthcare team, or are unsure but asking any of the questions above, you are welcome.
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47 min
May 25, 2021 Beauty + Justice | Haejin Shim
This workshop will explore the following topics and questions: Did law exist before the Fall or was it a result of the Fall? What is the definition of justice? What is the relationship, if any, between beauty and justice? Why are we called to seek justice? How can we love our God and neighbors as a lawyer? How do we navigate the current world as a lawyer?
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43 min
May 20, 2021 Living Art | Justin McRoberts
This workshop will help you reframe your passions, talents, and dreams into plans. You will leave with tools and motivation to frame a life more rooted in what you're designed to do rather than just what you're "supposed to" do.
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52 min
May 14, 2021 Redemptive Entrepreneurship: Practicing Creative Restoration through Sacrifice | Jon Hart
As a society, we have never been more cynical, or more hopeful. We seem to want to escape the world and transform it—all at once. We’ve shifted our trust away from most institutions and leaders. In this crisis of hope, Redemptive Entrepreneurship is the antidote to believing in nothing but ourselves.

Redemptive is leading ventures that reach beyond best practices and ethical baselines. Redemptive is surrendered ambition and cultural renewal for the sake of others. Redemptive is loving God and loving our neighbor by responding to the world’s pressing issues with ambition, ingenuity, and hope.

Join Jon Hart, Partner at Praxis, as he shares how a redemptive mindset and principles can help us winsomely express our faith through the products, services, brands, and things that we "make" through our work—be it as an entrepreneur or as someone who resonates with the entrepreneurial mindset—in business, social enterprise, or nonprofits.
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35 min