The second Student Concert of the semester is happening tonight (Saturday) at 8:30 p.m.! Join us in the Foxhole for good music performed by your fellow students. Snacks and drinks will be provided.
Questions? Please Contact Kayla Hardie at khardie13@georgefox.edu.
If you find your schedule makes fulfilling your chapel credit requirement difficult, please note that today (Friday) until 5 p.m. is the last opportunity to submit a chapel waiver form. Any submissions turned in past 5 p.m. today will not be accepted. Click here to access the form.
Questions? Please contact the Office of Spiritual and Intercultural Life at spirituallife@georgefox.edu.
The Sadie Hawkins Dance is here! Ticket sales will begin Monday, Feb. 9, and continue through Friday, Feb. 20. Similar to last year, there will be two boats, the Sternwheeler and the Portland Spirit, sailing the Willamette from the Portland downtown waterfront.
The dance will be on Friday, Feb. 20. There are 350 tickets available for the Sternwheeler, which will board at 9 p.m. and dock at 11:30 p.m. Four-hundred tickets are available for the Portland Spirit, which will board at 9:30 p.m. and dock at midnight.
Tickets are $5 for GFU students and $20 for non-Fox students.
Tickets will be sold outside the ASC offices in the Bruin Den during lunch hours. Bring one student ID per ticket being purchased, and get them early before they are sold out! Tickets can be exchanged for the other boat up until the dance.
On the night of the dance students must get on the boat they have a ticket for. The dance is semi-formal and will feature three levels: swing, DJ dance, and an open roof.
Questions? Contact Sarah Mackenzie at smackenzie11@georgefox.edu.
The Tim Tebow Foundation is sponsoring an opportunity for us to give someone with special needs a chance to have an ultimate prom experience. We are looking for volunteers to be hosts and buddies at the dance. There will be free food, limo rides around Newberg, fun dancing, and an opportunity to enjoy the company of someone with special needs.
The dance will be Friday, Feb. 13, from 5 to 9 p.m. at the Newberg Christian Church.
Questions? Please contact Katlyn Kronschnabl at kkronschnabl13@georgefox.edu.
The Coast to Coast Swing Club invites you and our prospective students to join us tonight (Friday) from 7 to 9 p.m. in the Foxhole for a night of music, socializing and swing!
Don’t know swing? No worries, lessons are available all evening! We hope to see you there!
Questions? Please contact MaKenna Hickey at mhickey14@georgefox.edu.
Friendsview Retirement Community is hosting a huge garage sale! Everything Saturday is half price for George Fox students! The sale is today (Friday) from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. and from 8 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 7! After noon on Saturday all merchandise is free to students.
Questions? Please contact Rebekah Harding at rharding12@georgefox.edu.
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
Come by the Bruin Den today (Friday) between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. and get your photo taken with fun Bruin Heritage props! This is one of the last chances to be featured in the George Fox yearbook (The Student Collective), so make sure to stop by.
Questions? Contact Kiri Guthridge at kguthridge13@georgefox.edu.
Alumni in the area invite you to join them in their homes for a home-cooked meal and conversation about what life is like after college! Register online through this link or next week in the Bruin Den.Â
The dinners will be Tuesday, Feb. 24, and Wednesday, Feb 25. Students who attend will receive a $5 Chapters gift card.
Questions? Please contact Taylor Ellis at tellis12@georgefox.edu.
Join us for a showing of Selma at Regal Cinemas at Bridgeport Village tonight (Thursday) from 6 to 9:30 p.m., followed by a time of processing and discussion at the International House with professor Steve Classen.
Questions? Please email Kimberly Morales at kmorales14@georgefox.edu.
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.â€
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.
Need to send out a student survey? The following guidelines have been established for the distribution of student surveys. Faculty members are encouraged to help facilitate this process.
Please follow these guidelines when submitting student surveys for mass distribution. Send your surveys to Jere Witherspoon in the student life office. Your approved survey request should include all of the following:
1. Your name and email address (may include the list of names from those in your group)
2. Course name and professor
3. Approval for distribution granted by: _______________________ (list department)
4. Short, catchy blurb about the survey no more than 35 words in length
5. A tested, workable link to the survey
An email with all submitted surveys will be sent to all students once a week (on Wednesdays). An identical Daily Bruin announcement will be submitted at the same time to the student Daily Bruin forum. The following disclaimer will be attached to the email and the Daily Bruin announcement:
Disclaimer:
These surveys are student generated and are not to be associated with any official research conducted by faculty and staff at George Fox University. Any views or opinions presented in these surveys are solely those of the students and do not represent those of George Fox University. The distribution of these surveys is a service provided to George Fox University students as they prepare their research required by the curriculum. Students are required to have department approval. Any questions about these surveys should be directed to the students associated with the survey in question.
Please contact Jere Witherspoon if you have any questions about this process.
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?â€
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!
If you are hungry for community and looking to deepen your relationship with God, please sign up for our six-week Lyfe Group series taking place over the season of Lent.
Groups will start the week of Feb. 23 and conclude the week after Easter. Each participant will receive and read through a devotional, Show Me the Way by Henri Nouwen. Sign-ups are online, and space is limited, so be sure to sign up!
Click this link to sign up.
Andy Crouch, executive editor of Christianity Today, will present a free lecture titled “True Power in a World of False Images” on Monday, Feb. 9, at 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in Hoover 105. The university community is invited to attend.
Crouch is the author of Playing God: Redeeming the Gift of Power, published in October 2013. His book Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling won Christianity Today’s 2009 Book Award for Christianity and Culture and was named one of the best books of 2008 by Publishers Weekly, Relevant, Outreach and Leadership. Crouch serves on the governing boards of Fuller Theological Seminary and Equitas Group, a philanthropic organization focused on ending child exploitation in Haiti and Southeast Asia.
He is also a senior fellow of the International Justice Mission’s IJM Institute. His writing has appeared in Time, The Wall Street Journal and several editions of Best Christian Writing and Best Spiritual Writing. He studied classics at Cornell University and received an MDiv (summa cum laude) from Boston University School of Theology.
This lecture is co-sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Critical Issues program and the William Penn Honors Program. A reception for those interested in learning more about the William Penn Honors Program will immediately follow the 7:30 p.m. lecture. Please contact Paul Otto (potto@georgefox.edu) or Jane Sweet (jsweet@georgefox.edu) if you have questions.
