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How can art forms function as theological media, conveying spiritual realities in ways words cannot? The question will be the topic of a George Fox Evangelical Seminary seminar on Wednesday, Feb. 9, at the Portland Center.

Author Dan Kimball and author and theologian Maggi Dawn will speak at the event, the latest installment of the seminary’s Ministry in Contemporary Culture Seminar series. The half-day event is scheduled from 9 a.m. to noon in Room 155.

The seminar, entitled “A New Creation: The Fusion of Ministry and Creative Arts,” will address the ways in which Christ-followers have used media throughout the ages and present some new ways these media can be used today. Kimball is the author of several books on church leadership and culture, including They Like Jesus, But Not The Church and The Emerging Church. He is also on staff at Vintage Faith Church in Santa Cruz, Calif.

Dawn is based at the University of Cambridge, where she is chaplain and Fellow in Theology at Robinson College. She recently published a book, The Writing on the Wall, which explores some of the most influential stories and ideas from the Bible and the ways they have been woven into Western culture.

Online registration is available at seminary.georgefox.edu and can be found by clicking the “News and Events” link on the left side of the screen. More information about the seminar is available by contacting Jean Oehm Miller at ext. 6150.

The university community is invited to join us for a showing of a “trashy movie” Wednesday (Feb. 2) night. Our Faith and Film Series is Garbage Dreams. Follow the story of these Egyptian “Trash boys” to find out why there is a revolution taking place in Egypt right now. Come watch this short film (53 minutes) and then we can do a little trash-talking about how this affects us where we live.

Join us at 9 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Are you interested in attending Kaleo for a discounted price? All Kaleo volunteers receive $10 off of their ticket price and a free Kaleo T-shirt! Volunteers will be used at various times during the event. Kaleo, a conference for those who minister to youth, is scheduled for Saturday, Feb. 26, in Bauman Auditorium. More information about the event is available here.

Please contact Amy Lorenz if you are interested in volunteering (alorenz@georgefox.edu or 503-554-2134).

The Center for Peace and Justice will host a special guest and a symposium this Thursday, Feb. 3. Here are the details:

Global Urban Mission Leader Visits
Viv Grigg, international director, Urban Leadership Foundation
Faculty/Staff Roundtable Conversation
9-10:30 a.m., Executive Dining Room

*Peace Theory Course: “Considerations of alternative pedagogies along the lines of Jesus’ seminary in the slums and in relation to Grigg’s graduate urban leadership program.” 4:10 – 5:25 p.m., Ross 141

*Class is open to the public

Viv Grigg has been used to prophetically initiate many urban ministries while following Christ by living in numerous poor communities around the world. He is an assistant professor and author of numerous articles and books.

Peace and Justice Symposium (Spiritual life credit available for attending)
Speakers: Fred Gregory, special assistant to the president, international development expert, 1966 George Fox alumnus
Dot Tobey, undergraduate admissions counselor, 2008 George Fox alumna

7:15 – 8:30 p.m., Quaker Heritage Room – Second Floor Library

Join us for the third of four peace and justice symposia this academic year. Fred Gregory will take us on a journey through his 40-plus years in international development. Hear his amazing stories, learn from his experience, and be inspired by his courage and insight. Dot Tobey will share her experience working in inner city youth ministry. Hear from a recent college graduate serving God through youth ministry.

The all-new Bruin Madness is this Saturday! As a student in any George Fox program, the Bruins are your college basketball team and we want you to cheer them on in the biggest games of the year!

The indoor tailgate party begins at 3:30 p.m. and features an incredible tailgate dinner and spirit activities. There is also a special KidZone for the little ones so bring your family along too! After the tailgate party, head over to Miller Gym to cheer on the Bruin basketball teams in the biggest games of the year!

Tomorrow (Feb. 2) is the last day to preregister and save on tickets to the indoor tailgate party and basketball games for adults, seniors, and non-GFU students. As a George Fox student, your ID card gets you into the basketball games for free.

To find out more, to register, and to get discounted tickets, visit the Bruin Madness site.

Non-discounted tickets can also be purchased at the door.

University Relations is taking part in a prom dress donation drive for high school students in the Alaskan village of Savoonga, which will host its first-ever prom night on May 7. Please consider donating your used prom or formal dresses to the Savoonga village girls by Monday, Feb. 15.

Dresses can be dropped off at the Office of University Relations in the Pennington House (1000 Sheridan St.) on the Newberg campus. We will take responsibility to ship them to the village, located on St. Lawrence Island just below Siberia in the middle of the Bering Sea. We are also looking for men’s suit jackets and jewelry.

Contact the Office of University Relations for more information (ext. 2121 or epattison@georgefox.edu).

Wondering about your 1098T Tuition Statement? Students who elect to “grant consent” to have their form available online can now access it by logging into MyGFU. Next, go to the student center and scroll down to finances section and choose the drop down pick list “other financial.”

Next, choose the 1098T and select 2010. Students who do not wish to grant consent can expect the form to be mailed Monday, Jan. 31. We are very sorry that we do not have the printed version ready yet.

BETTER BOOKS (Better than last semester!) for sale at the Portland Center Library in the usual spot!
Hardbacks: $2
Paperbacks: $1
Sets (unless otherwise marked): $10

Don’t forget to attend the theatre department’s winter play, Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley. Performances are Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 3-5, and Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 10-12, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

All George Fox employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on both Thursdays. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

The Justice Conference is scheduled in Bend, Ore., Feb. 11-12, and will feature 12 speakers (including Shane Claiborne and Chris Lahr) and the support of 50 organizations, including George Fox’s Center for Peace and Justice. Also featured will be hundreds of book titles, all about the biblical nature of justice (see event website at thejusticeconference.com).

World Relief is co-sponsoring this event, which will provide a great opportunity to make connections with the various people and organizations attending. It will also provide a great venue for fruitful discussions and valuable learning about justice.

Several members of our staff and faculty are already planning to attend as well as a few students. The Center for Peace and Justice is willing to provide transportation and hopefully lodging for anyone interested in attending. Right now, until the end of the month, there is a ticket special of $49. For tickets, visit this link.

Pass this information onto interested persons! It will make for an awesome weekend.

Important: We are seeking connections to a church or a venue in Bend that we could stay at Friday night. Please let Melanie Newell know if you can be of assistance.

Contact Melanie (mnewell@georgefox.edu or ext. 2686) if you wish to learn more or are interested in attending.

FoxTALE will be unavailable from 6 to 7 a.m. (Pacific Time) on Tuesday, Feb. 1, for scheduled maintenance. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Come see the university theatre department’s winter play, Doubt, by John Patrick Shanley. Performances are Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 3-5, and Thursday through Saturday, Feb. 10-12, at 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Feb. 6, at 2 p.m. in Wood-Mar Auditorium.

All George Fox employees receive one complimentary ticket. Students will be admitted free on both Thursdays. Your complimentary ticket is only available at the Box Office in the Bruin Bookstore. Additional tickets are $12 for adults, $8 for alumni and seniors, and $6 for students and children under 12. To purchase tickets or read a synopsis of the play, visit theatre.georgefox.edu.

Because it is wet and cold outside, those without homes put on layers of clothes to try and keep warm. The GFU Portland Center has agreed to be a collection site for jeans, socks, sweats, and coats to support local organizations who distribute these to the homeless in Tigard.

During the next two weeks a tent will be in the main lobby. The tent is to resemble where many of the homeless live throughout Tigard. Please bring clothing items you are no longer using, and drop them into the tent.

If you have questions or would like to know more about the effort to meet the needs of the homeless in Tigard, contact Darla Samuelson by email.

If you’re like most youth mentors, close to half of your graduating seniors pick up their diplomas and ditch their faith. Why is that? For those graduates who remain connected to Jesus, what is it that makes the difference? And how can we be made aware of the ways we may be subtly sabotaging our students’ faith, despite our best intentions?

Kaleo 2011, scheduled on the Newberg campus Saturday, Feb. 26, will take a deep look at ongoing research conducted by the Fuller Youth Institute on students just like yours. Kara Powell and Jon Furman will provide practical ways to keep students of all ages and grades engaged in your ministry, and more importantly their faith, so that they build faith that sticks.

To learn more about the speakers, schedule, cost or registration information, visit kaleo.georgefox.edu.

Volunteer to help throughout the day and receive a discount on your registration fee and a free Kaleo T-shirt! If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Amy Lorenz at alorenz@georgefox.edu or ext. 2134.

Peter Greer, president of the nonprofit relief agency HOPE International, will present a free public lecture from 7:30 to 9 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 20, in Hoover 105.

HOPE International focuses on alleviating physical and spiritual poverty in countries such as Haiti, Afghanistan and DR Congo. In addition to serving as president, Greer is the founder of the HOPE Global Investment Fund, a microfinance investment fund that targets underserved regions of the world.

Greer is the coauthor, with Phil Smith, of The Poor Will Be Glad. The book, one of the first of its kind, delineates a Christian approach to microfinance as a means of fighting global poverty.

Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu or ext. 2686.

Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian-American scholar and social entrepreneur, will present a free lecture, “Insisting on Life: Martyrdom and Fair Trade in Palestine,” on campus Wednesday, Jan. 19. A guest of the university’s Center for Peace and Justice, Abufarha will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Abufarha is the founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association and Canaan Fair Trade, which is bringing Palestinian olive oil and other traditional foods to mainstream American and European markets, while also improving economic conditions for more than 1,700 farmers in the West Bank.

He is also the author of The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance, a book that explains how geographic separation of Palestinians and mimetic actions to Israeli state repression will continue to be a source of violence until Palestinians can experience actual rootedness in their land and start to explore alternative exchanges between themselves and Israelis.

Questions? Contact Melanie Newell at mnewell@georgefox.edu or ext. 2686.

The university will close Monday, Jan. 17, to observe the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr. There will be no day or evening classes or chapel at the Newberg campus, and the Portland Center, Salem Center and Boise Center will be closed. Libraries at all campuses will be closed as well.

Did you know that George Fox has a self-service password reset tool available? Login to MyGFU, and click on the “Password Reset Questions” link in the Account Management section to set it up. You will need to select and answer two security questions from the drop-down lists there.

After that, be sure that you have a non-GFU e-mail address submitted within your personal record. To update/verify your non-GFU e-mail address in MyGFU:

1. Click on “Self Service”
2. Click on “Campus Personal Information”
3. Click on “E-mail Addresses”
4. If you do not have a personal or non-GFU e-mail address listed, click on the “Add An Email Address” button to add one to your account
5. Click the “Save” button to complete the process

In the future, if you forget your password, click the “Forgot Password” button on the MyGFU login screen to request a temporary password. You will be asked to provide the answers to your security questions. The temporary password will be sent to your non-GFU e-mail, allowing you to log into MyGFU and change your university login password.

Please contact the Service Desk (503-554-2569) if you have any questions or need assistance with the setting up your security questions.

Nasser Abufarha, a Palestinian-American scholar and social entrepreneur, will present a free lecture, “Insisting on Life: Martyrdom and Fair Trade in Palestine,” on campus Wednesday, Jan. 19. A guest of the university’s Center for Peace and Justice, Abufarha will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in Hoover 105.

Abufarha is the founder of the Palestine Fair Trade Association and Canaan Fair Trade, which is bringing Palestinian olive oil and other traditional foods to mainstream American and European markets, while also improving economic conditions for more than 1,700 farmers in the West Bank. Canaan Fair Trade today is the largest exporter of certified fair trade and organic Palestinian olive oil to America and Europe.

Abufarha is the author of The Making of a Human Bomb: An Ethnography of Palestinian Resistance. The book, described as “required reading” by the American Journal of Sociology, explains how geographic separation of Palestinians and mimetic actions to Israeli state repression will continue to be a source of violence until Palestinians can experience actual rootedness in their land and start to explore alternative exchanges between themselves and Israelis.

The university’s Center for Peace and Justice has collaborated with the Friends of William Stafford to bring several notable poets, including the current and former poet laureates of Oregon, a documentary film maker, and our very own Ed Higgins to the Newberg campus Thursday, Jan. 13, to honor the life and work of this beloved Oregon poet who strove to promote peace and justice through his creativity.

Thursday’s events are free and open to the public. There is no registration required. The day begins with a screening of Haydn Reiss’s new documentary on Stafford, Every War has Two Losers, featuring a discussion with Reiss himself afterward. The event closes at the Coffee Cottage with a musical performance by Bill Joliff and Seth Martin.

Event details and itinerary can be found at this link.