Faculty Members Tarez Graban and Amrita Myers warmly invite graduate students and faculty to our GFM End-of-Semester Christmas Party on Saturday, December 5th at 6pm. Invites were sent through evite but if you did not receive that and need the address, please email Paula at puckettp@indiana.edu. Party details below:
- Please bring either an appetizer OR a dessert (and your favorite libations IF you desire!) but if this is prohibitive for you, come anyway!
- We plan to do a white-elephant/crazy santa gift exchange. IF you are interested in participating please bring a wrapped, gender-neutral gift of no more than $10 in value and let the laughter and hilarity ensue. If you have never done this, you will soon understand what we mean! This is completely optional. YOU MAY BRING A NEW OR GENTLY USED ITEM.
- We will supply the seasonal music and decor, games, some heavier fare, and additional liquid refreshments
- Bring your appetite, holiday cheer, your significant other, and any other adult friends who may like to attend.
- Due to space constraints, and so that YOU can all relax and be refreshed, this will be an adults-only event. Contact Paula if you need baby-sitter recommendations. Kids will be welcome at future events.
And as always, we understand you are busy, so if you can only stop by for a brief "study break," feel free!
Friday, December 4, 2009
Friday, November 20, 2009
December Events for Women in the IU Academy
Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!
After the holiday, here is a schedule of events for the remainder of 2009:
Final Manuscript Study for 2009:
Thursday, December 3rd, 7-9pm, 624 E. 3rd St. (Beck House)
End-of-Semester Holiday Grad & Faculty Party
Saturday, December 5th at 6:00pm at Professor Amrita Myers' home
Optional Crazy Santa/White Elephant gift exchange too!
Invites will come by EVITE.
If you are not on our mailing list and would like to come, or if you did not receive the EVITE, we would love to have you. Just let me know at puckettp@indiana.edu
Weekly Morning Prayer:
Every Thursday 9-10am in the IMU
12/3--Charter Room
12/10--Charter Room (last one for fall)
GFM leadership team planning meeting--TBA
After the holiday, here is a schedule of events for the remainder of 2009:
Final Manuscript Study for 2009:
Thursday, December 3rd, 7-9pm, 624 E. 3rd St. (Beck House)
End-of-Semester Holiday Grad & Faculty Party
Saturday, December 5th at 6:00pm at Professor Amrita Myers' home
Optional Crazy Santa/White Elephant gift exchange too!
Invites will come by EVITE.
If you are not on our mailing list and would like to come, or if you did not receive the EVITE, we would love to have you. Just let me know at puckettp@indiana.edu
Weekly Morning Prayer:
Every Thursday 9-10am in the IMU
12/3--Charter Room
12/10--Charter Room (last one for fall)
GFM leadership team planning meeting--TBA
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Photos from our recent "Girls Fun Night"
Friday night we gathered to let off Grad/Faculty steam and enjoy the rich company of being with women who understand the stresses of the Academy.
The larger InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministry fellowship has some important upcoming events. Visit www.iugfmb.blogspot.com for more information.
Monday, November 2, 2009
November GFM Events
Morning Prayer Schedule for November (9-10am THURSDAYS):
11/12--Charter Room
11/19--Charter Room
11/26--Happy Thanksgiving
Other Events:
11/6: "Girls' Fun Night," 7pm at Paula's home. 333-3395 for directions
11/12 "Can a biologist trust an evangelical Christian?"
7pm IMU Dogwood Room: A 3-Faculty member Academic Discussion sponsored by InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministry at IU and the IU Student Association
[Pre-Event Dinner for Graduate Students: 4:30pm appetizers, 5:00pm Dinner, at Josh & Kerilyn's. Please bring an appetizer or salad to share.]
11/13 Faculty Breakfast with Special Guest Dr. Jeff Hardin, UW Madison, 9am at Uptown Cafe, Kirkwood Avenue
11/19--Manuscript Study of John, 7-9pm, The Beck House, 624 E. 3rd Street
11/12--Charter Room
11/19--Charter Room
11/26--Happy Thanksgiving
Other Events:
11/6: "Girls' Fun Night," 7pm at Paula's home. 333-3395 for directions
11/12 "Can a biologist trust an evangelical Christian?"
7pm IMU Dogwood Room: A 3-Faculty member Academic Discussion sponsored by InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministry at IU and the IU Student Association
[Pre-Event Dinner for Graduate Students: 4:30pm appetizers, 5:00pm Dinner, at Josh & Kerilyn's. Please bring an appetizer or salad to share.]
11/13 Faculty Breakfast with Special Guest Dr. Jeff Hardin, UW Madison, 9am at Uptown Cafe, Kirkwood Avenue
11/19--Manuscript Study of John, 7-9pm, The Beck House, 624 E. 3rd Street
Monday, October 26, 2009
A Chance to Serve--Saturday October 31st
This coming Saturday, October 31, from 10am-2pm is our InterVarsity GFM service project for our faculty advisor and his family. As many of you know, they lost grandparents and their daughter in a tragic car/train accident during the summer. We will
be doing the following: yardwork, cleaning the house, watching the kids (doing a craft or activity and providing lunch), and cooking their dinner.
If you are interested in helping out with this, would you please email Alessandra at ojala88@gmail.com with the time you are available and also what area of the above four you would like to help with? The idea is for people to sign up for shifts of 1-2 hours between 10 and 2, but you are welcome to stay longer if you'd like.
Also, we are asking people to chip in $3-$5 toward the cost of the groceries for the meal we're leaving behind. Anything extra will be used to purchase a gift certificate for the family. Those who are going can give Joshua Krieger (who is buying the food) the money there, and those who are not able to go but would like to contribute can email me (Scott) at slamanna@indiana.edu to make arrangements to get the money to me.
Please bring your own water bottle and supplies (cleaning supplies, yard tools such as rakes, craft materials to use with the kids, food for the kids' lunch, etc.) depending on what you'd like to do.
Thanks in advance for your willingness to serve in this way!
be doing the following: yardwork, cleaning the house, watching the kids (doing a craft or activity and providing lunch), and cooking their dinner.
If you are interested in helping out with this, would you please email Alessandra at ojala88@gmail.com with the time you are available and also what area of the above four you would like to help with? The idea is for people to sign up for shifts of 1-2 hours between 10 and 2, but you are welcome to stay longer if you'd like.
Also, we are asking people to chip in $3-$5 toward the cost of the groceries for the meal we're leaving behind. Anything extra will be used to purchase a gift certificate for the family. Those who are going can give Joshua Krieger (who is buying the food) the money there, and those who are not able to go but would like to contribute can email me (Scott) at slamanna@indiana.edu to make arrangements to get the money to me.
Please bring your own water bottle and supplies (cleaning supplies, yard tools such as rakes, craft materials to use with the kids, food for the kids' lunch, etc.) depending on what you'd like to do.
Thanks in advance for your willingness to serve in this way!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
GFM members published in the IDS
In response to the IU themester, and Dawkins' lecture, some members of InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministry had their editorial published this week in the Indiana Daily Student:
Science and Religion Can Work Together
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in his lecture at IU on Oct.12, presented a strong and unflinching defense of biological evolution. He also relentlessly attacked religious faith of any kind, particularly Christianity and Islam, calling the biblical book of Genesis the “scribblings of goat herders.” During Dawkins’ talk, Christians outside the auditorium handed out cards insisting that evolution is incompatible with the Bible.
Both views seemed to agree that we must choose between acceptance of legitimate scientific evidence and sincere faith. For those of us who are professional scholars and practicing Christians, this false choice is personally frustrating and cultivates potently corrosive distrust within our society. It robs far too many young Christians of the ability to realize their potential for exploring our universe and too many scholars of the redemptive power God offers for their lives and their universities.
We believe there should be no conflict between science and faith, because God is the author of both. We believe that Christians can and should explore the natural world and have the courage to accept that evolution is the best scientific explanation of evidence spanning billions of years into the past and within our own DNA. To this end, we hope to engage in the spirit of IU’s Themester by hosting an academic discussion, open to all who are interested, with panelists who are Christians and scholars, and who wish to build trust between the academy and Christianity.
Please join us at 7pm Nov. 12 in the Indiana Memorial Union Dogwood Room for a panel discussion in response to the question "Can a biologist trust an evangelical Christian?"
For more information visit http://iugfm.blogspot.com/. We hope an honest and communal search for truth can evolve out of the false choice between science and faith.
Luke Corwin, postdoctoral fellow, Physics
Scott Lamanna, doctoral candidate, Spanish
Kerilyn Harkaway, doctoral student, English and religious studies
For the IV Graduate & Faculty Ministry at IU
Science and Religion Can Work Together
Evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, in his lecture at IU on Oct.12, presented a strong and unflinching defense of biological evolution. He also relentlessly attacked religious faith of any kind, particularly Christianity and Islam, calling the biblical book of Genesis the “scribblings of goat herders.” During Dawkins’ talk, Christians outside the auditorium handed out cards insisting that evolution is incompatible with the Bible.
Both views seemed to agree that we must choose between acceptance of legitimate scientific evidence and sincere faith. For those of us who are professional scholars and practicing Christians, this false choice is personally frustrating and cultivates potently corrosive distrust within our society. It robs far too many young Christians of the ability to realize their potential for exploring our universe and too many scholars of the redemptive power God offers for their lives and their universities.
We believe there should be no conflict between science and faith, because God is the author of both. We believe that Christians can and should explore the natural world and have the courage to accept that evolution is the best scientific explanation of evidence spanning billions of years into the past and within our own DNA. To this end, we hope to engage in the spirit of IU’s Themester by hosting an academic discussion, open to all who are interested, with panelists who are Christians and scholars, and who wish to build trust between the academy and Christianity.
Please join us at 7pm Nov. 12 in the Indiana Memorial Union Dogwood Room for a panel discussion in response to the question "Can a biologist trust an evangelical Christian?"
For more information visit http://iugfm.blogspot.com/. We hope an honest and communal search for truth can evolve out of the false choice between science and faith.
Luke Corwin, postdoctoral fellow, Physics
Scott Lamanna, doctoral candidate, Spanish
Kerilyn Harkaway, doctoral student, English and religious studies
For the IV Graduate & Faculty Ministry at IU
Saturday, September 26, 2009
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