Brewed Awakenings

 

Brewed Awakening:

Serving fair trade coffee, tea and speakers to stir the social conscience

Spring 2013 schedule

 

Tuesday, February 12

 Fermanian Business Center

3:15pm (3pm coffee)

God of the Market, God of the Nation-State: Cultural exegesis of “secular” liturgies

James K.A. Smith, Professor of Philosophy, Byker Chair in Applied Reformed Theology and Worldview at Calvin College

Co-sponsored by PLNU’s 2013 H. Orton Wiley Lectures in Theology

 

Part of Dr. Smith’s work is considered an “adventure in philosophical anthropology.”  “What if education, including higher education, is not primarily about the absorption of ideas and information, but about the formation of hearts and desires?  What if we began by appreciating how education not only gets into our head but also (and more fundamentally) grabs us by the gut—what the New Testament refers to as kardia, “the heart”? What if education was primarily concerned with shaping our hopes and passions—our visions of “the good life”—and not merely about the dissemination of data and information as inputs to our thinking? What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect? And what if this had as much to do with our bodies as with our minds?”  (Desiring the Kingdom, 2009)  If so, we would then have to take seriously all powers and principalities that compete for the shaping of a prophetically Christian imagination.  Dr. Jamie Smith plans to give us some food for thought toward this end.

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Tuesday, March 26

 Fermanian Business Center

7pm (6:30pm coffee)

Welcome the Stranger: PLNU Immigrant journeys and stories of faith 

PLNU's Center for Justice and Reconciliation students, faculty and staff

The Fiscal Policy Institute’s study of large urban areas in the US shows that immigrants make up 28% of San Diego’s workforce.  According to the 2010 US national census, over ¼ of Californians were born outside of the United States, almost double the national proportion (13%).  These numbers would be larger if a more accurate account of undocumented immigrants could be ascertained.  While all of us have left home at one point or another, and many of us have migrated to San Diego to attend or work at PLNU, people who have immigrated from another country have particular gifts and face particular challenges.  Come learn from immigrants in our midst about these special challenges.

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Tuesday, April 16

Colt Forum

7pm (6:30pm coffee)

Forgive us our Debts: The Grip of Debt and Ways to Freedom 

Panel including a pastor, PLNU's Director of Financial Aid, Pam Macias

and PLNU alumna Kara Watkins

 

“Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.”  Why would the central prayer that Christians are asked to pray include economic language about debt and forgiveness of debts?  What does this imply about the role that debt plays in our lives, in our interactions with one another, in society, at a university?  Every wonder how your personal debt relates to other social choices that we make?  Ever wonder how far the distance is between having some credit card debt and being in debt slavery?  Come explore with us the social and theological implications of debt, starting with the lives of college students and moving to the larger impact of debt on our ability to be the Body of Christ in the world.  We will also explore hopeful ways that people are finding freedom from debt and its bondage in their lives.

 

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Sponsored by PLNU’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation, the Brewed Awakening series gives a platform to speakers who bring critical analysis of pressing contemporary social issues while pointing to ways of engaging these issues with hopeful alternatives.  The Brewed Awakening series showcases individuals and organizations with keen insight as well as practical ways of getting people involved.  Special attention is given to Christians who are engaged in the struggle for justice and reconciliation.  All speakers are encouraged to reflect on the relationship between their passion for justice, their actions and their faith.

For more information, contact Dr. Jamie Gates, 619.849.2659 or cjr@pointloma.edu .
Learn more about the Center for Justice and Reconciliation at www.pointloma.edu/cjr
For directions to the university, call 619.849.2200 or go to http://www.pointloma.edu/maps-directions

 

Past Brewed Awakening Scheduled Speakers

2011-2012 Fall 2011 Spring 2012	2009-2010 Fall 2009 Spring 2010
2010-2011 Fall 2010 Spring 2011	2008-2009 Fall 2008 Spring 2009
	2007-2008 Fall 2007 Spring 2008
	2006-2007 Spring 2007