The Daily Bruin

Join us for chapel with guest speaker Andy Crouch today (Tuesday) at 10:50 a.m. in Bauman Auditorium. Chapel credit is available.

Crouch is the author of Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power. His book Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling was named one of the best books of 2008 by Christianity Today, Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. In December of 2012 he became executive editor of Christianity Today.

Tonight (Tuesday) at 9 p.m. in the Cap and Gown Room join us for Shalom. Chapel elective credit is available.

On Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 7 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium come hear from Sarah Baldwin, former university pastor at George Fox. She now serves as the VP of student development and dean of students at Asbury University. Chapel credit is available.

Download our spring chapel calendar here. For more information, visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The IDEA Center is hosting two events for students who have yet to declare a major or who have declared a major but are still feeling uncertain about their direction. Come hear from a panel of current students and recent graduates who also found it challenging to decide on a major and the steps they took discerning their direction.

Both events are the same but being offered at different times to accommodate a wider range of schedules. These sessions will also include helpful tools and insights aimed at connecting your academic pursuits with your interests and passions.

• Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. in Stevens 207
• Thursday, Feb. 12, at 10:50 a.m. in Stevens 208

Questions? Contact the IDEA Center at idea@georgefox.edu.

Originally set for Friday, Oct. 9, this holiday has been moved to Friday, Oct. 16. With fall semester beginning Aug. 31, Oct. 16 falls at the end of the seventh week, a week closer to mid-semester than the previous date.

In lieu of the mid-semester holiday, employees at the Portland Center will get Labor Day, Monday, Sept. 7, off.

The 2015-16 holiday schedule posted on the HR website has been updated to reflect this change.

The Wood-Mar parking lot will be closed Wednesday, Feb. 11, at 5 p.m. for the evening. All vehicles must be moved from the north half of the parking lot by the 5 p.m. deadline. Please plan accordingly.

Thank you.

Know students who need help with APA style for writing assignments? We have a workshop for them.

Sue O’Donnell, associate professor of psychology, will cover American Psychological Association citation and reference formatting, along with several guidelines for writing in APA style, at an Academic Resource Center-sponsored workshop, “Using APA Format Effectively,” from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 12, in Hoover 105.

Questions? Contact Rick Muthiah at rmuthiah@georgefox.edu.

The IDEA Center is hosting two events for students who have yet to declare a major or who have declared a major but are still feeling uncertain about their direction. Come hear from a panel of current students and recent graduates who also found it challenging to decide on a major and the steps they took discerning their direction.

Both events are the same but being offered at different times to accommodate a wider range of schedules. These sessions will also include helpful tools and insights aimed at connecting your academic pursuits with your interests and passions.

• Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 8 p.m. in Stevens 207
• Thursday, Feb. 12, at 10:50 a.m. in Stevens 208

Questions? Contact the IDEA Center at idea@georgefox.edu.

Six staff and administrator positions are currently open. Listed in order of recency, they are:

• Director, University Mail and Print Services
• Director of Intercultural Life
• Area Coordinator, Residence Life
• Director of Strategic Business Administration, College of Business
• Executive Assistant to the Dean, College of Business
• Software Engineer, Analytics

The link to each of these position announcements can be found at jobs.georgefox.edu. If you know of someone you believe might provide a good fit for any of these jobs, please refer the person to the website for information about the job and instructions about applying.

Engineering Ministries International (EMI) is on campus today (Friday), presenting from 3 to 4 p.m. in EHS 102. All students, faculty and staff are welcome. The presentation is eligible for chapel elective credit.

EMI is a nonprofit Christian development organization made up of architects, engineers and design professionals who donate their skills to help children and families around the world step out of poverty and into a world of hope. You can learn more at emiworld.org.

Questions? Contact Mike Magill at mmagill@georgefox.edu.

Join us today (Friday) to hear Hans Boersma, the J.I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, at 4:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

The free presentation is entitled “Why We Need an ‘Other’ Reading: Or, Why We Ourselves Are the Ones Taking the Exodus Journey,” in which he will offer a defense of allegory as a method for biblical interpretation, following early Christian authors such as Melito, Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. The talk is aimed at both scholarly and popular audiences who are interested in biblical interpretation and the history of Christian thought more generally.

Boersma has been at Regent since 2005 and taught for six years previously at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia (1999–2005). He has also served as a pastor for several years (1994-1998) and is the author of several books.

Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

With the release of Son of God (2014), Noah (2014) and the more recent Exodus: Gods and Kings (2014), the biblical story continues to be a source of ethical intrigue, repulsion and conviction. How are we to navigate? Does “Batman” (Christian Bale) really make the best “Moses”?

The Bible and Cinema, a course offered during May Term 2015, aims to chart a way through this sea of concerns and find a destination of honest dialogue, delicious snacks and a field trip to the movies!

Coming to theaters soon: The Bible and Cinema (BIBL 285/485 for 3 credits), May 4-22, from 9 a.m. to noon each weekday in Hoover. Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.

See you at the movies!

– Jenny Matheny, instructor

The university’s Center for Peace and Justice invites all to the annual Woolman Peacemaking Forum, featuring Jason Fileta of Micah Challenge USA, on the Newberg campus Tuesday, Feb. 24. The theme of the event is “Past, Present and Future: Promoting Peace & Justice at George Fox University and Beyond.”

Jason will speak at morning chapel that day, as well as in an evening lecture at 6:15 p.m. Students will receive chapel credit for attending either event.

More details to follow soon! Please visit the Woolman Peacemaking Forum webpage soon to stay current with event updates. Questions? Contact Jennifer Kepler at jkepler@georgefox.edu.

Please help us welcome Scholarship Competition students and their families to campus on Friday, Feb. 6, by parking somewhere other than the Stevens or Hoover parking lots. Thank you!

If you have questions, please contact Nate McIntyre at ext. 2255.

Join us for the university’s fifth annual Dalton Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 12, as Dr. William Phillips, a 1997 Nobel Prize winner in physics, presents at 7:30 p.m. in Bauman Auditorium. The free presentation is entitled “Ordinary Faith, Ordinary Science,” in which he speak on the common ground shared between faith and science. A George Fox student research poster session and dessert reception will follow Phillips’ lecture.

Among the questions Phillips will address are queries that can be particularly troublesome for a Christian: “Why is there suffering if God is good?” “What about all the terrible things done in the name of religion?” and “What about all the good people who are on a different path of faith than Christianity?”

About Dr. Phillips
In 1997, Phillips was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for development of methods to cool and trap atoms with laser light, along with Steven Chu and Claude Cohen-Tannoudji. One result of the development of laser-cooling techniques was the first observation, in 1995, of the Bose-Einstein condensate, a new state of matter originally predicted 70 years earlier by Albert Einstein and the Indian physicist Satyendra Nath Bose.

Phillips will also speak Thursday afternoon, Feb. 12, at 3:30 p.m. on the topic “Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff in the Universe” in Bauman Auditorium.

The Dalton Lecture Series is sponsored by the Department of Biology and Chemistry. More information can be found on the Dalton Lecture page.

Contemplative worship is held Thursdays from 10:50 to 11:40 a.m. in the Prayer Chapel. All are welcome; elective chapel credit is available.

Genealogists and family historians of all skill levels are invited to a presentation of the riches of archives for genealogical research. The talk will be followed by a discussion and tour of the archives of George Fox University and the Northwest Yearly Meeting.

Join us at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 17, in the Murdock Learning Resource Center’s multipurpose room. There is no charge to attend.

For more information, please contact the archivist, Rachel Thomas, at rthomas@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2415.

Are you interested in learning Chinese? If so, please take this survey before Feb. 8. We will collect your opinions and plan accordingly.

Thank you!

Come hear from Steve Sherwood tonight (Wednesday) in chapel. Chapel will be held in Bauman Auditorium at 7 p.m. Chapel credit is available.

For more information, please visit spirituallife.georgefox.edu or email spirituallife@georgefox.edu.

The campus community is invited to hear Hans Boersma, the J.I. Packer Professor of Theology at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia, at 4:30 p.m. this Friday, Feb. 6, in Hoover 105.

The free presentation is entitled “Why We Need an ‘Other’ Reading: Or, Why We Ourselves Are the Ones Taking the Exodus Journey,” in which he will offer a defense of allegory as a method for biblical interpretation, following early Christian authors such as Melito, Origen and Gregory of Nyssa. The talk is aimed at both scholarly and popular audiences who are interested in biblical interpretation and the history of Christian thought more generally.

Boersma has been at Regent since 2005 and taught for six years previously at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia (1999–2005). He has also served as a pastor for several years (1994-1998) and is the author of several books.

Questions? Contact Paula Hampton at phampton@georgefox.edu.