Faith and Scholarship Discussion Series

In order to grow as a community of faithful Christian scholars, we — faculty, staff and students — need to meet with one another in fellowship to discuss how the breadth of meaning inherent in terms like “faith” and “scholarship” creates a depth of their possible integration.

We are not chairing the discussion of faith, scholarship and vocation here at Hope College — no one is. The point is neither to impose a particular view nor to require anyone to learn, teach, research, or serve a certain way. If there is a reason for the discussion, it is to help build a community of Christian scholars faithful to the mission of integrating the lives of the mind and of the spirit, a community whose members are comfortably vulnerable about how they define and live out these terms and their relationship to one another, and a community that enacts and models the virtues of civil discourse for all to see.

The Faith and Scholarship Discussion Series takes place on Thursday at 8 a.m. over the summer, in Schaap Science Center Room 1118. Each week a member of the Hope College faculty will lead a discussion about the integration of faith and scholarship in the context of vocation.

This is an excellent opportunity to be part of a broader conversation about these critically important issues. Coffee, juice and bagels will be served, and we will be finished by 9 a.m.

We welcome all students, faculty and staff to these discussions.

The 2026 Discussion Series

Each week a member of the Hope College faculty or staff will lead a discussion about the integration of faith and scholarship in the context of vocation.

• Thursday, May 28 – Ken Brown (Chemistry)
• Thursday, June 4 – Michelle Jones-London (special guest to Hope and former NIH Program Director)
• Thursday, June 11 – Kristin Diekevers (Admissions)
• Thursday, June 18 – Megan Herzog (Disability and Accessibility Resources)
• Thursday June 25 – Kevin Chastagner (Economics and Business) 

Sponsor

The Faith and Scholarship Discussion Series is sponsored by the Office of the Provost.