Education & Fellowship
Faith & Life Forum | Wednesday Tea | E-mail Listserve and Facebook Group | Student Representatives | Seminarians | Life Raft Bereavement Group | Paul Tillich Lecture

As a University Church, The Memorial Church provides educational opportunities for students, members of our congregation, and their children. Through annual lecture series, church school, and the weekly Faith & Life Forum, The Memorial Church contributes to the intellectual and spiritual lives of all who pass through our doors.

The Faith & Life Forum
The Faith & Life Forum explores issues of faith in our devotional and public life. The Forum meets on Sunday mornings beginning at 9:00 a.m., with continental breakfast and conversation followed by a speaker and program from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Participants may remain for informal discussion until the beginning of the 11:00 a.m. worship service. The Faith & Life Forum also hosts special evening programs, events, and speakers throughout the year. For further information, contact The Reverend Dr. Dorothy Austin at daustin@fas.harvard.edu; or her assistant, Leslie Kress, at leslie_kress@harvard.edu, or by phone at 617-496-1643.

Wednesday Tea
Wednesdays, 5:00 – 6:00 p.m.
On Wednesdays during Term, Professor Gomes welcomes undergraduates, graduate students, and visiting scholars to afternoon tea from 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. at his residence, Sparks House, located at 21 Kirkland Street, across from Memorial Hall.

The next tea will be held on the first Wednesday of Fall Term, September 2nd, 2009.

E-mail Listserve and Facebook Group
To be added to the undergraduate and graduate e-mail listserve, please visit calists.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/memchurchstudents or contact Epps Fellow Jonathan Page at jonathan_page@harvard.edu. All students are also invited to join The Memorial Church Facebook group.

Student Representatives
Interested in spreading the word about The Memorial Church? Become a student representative! We are aiming to have a representative from each house, graduate school, and freshman hall who can help advertise special events and field questions about the church. For more information contact Epps Fellow Jonathan Page at jonathan_page@harvard.edu.

Seminarians
The seminarian program in The Memorial Church provides an experiential learning opportunity for students preparing for ministry or considering a ministerial vocation. As an accredited fieldwork site of Harvard Divinity School, the Church typically offers appointments to two or three seminarians. Appointment as a seminarian requires a commitment of fifteen hours each week in Term, and involves responsibility for liturgical leadership, facilitation or direction of ministries of the Church such as the Church School program, the Grants Committee, and similar programs; and a commitment to theological reflection. Seminarians receive a stipend for their work and are typically expected to serve in the post for two years. Potential applicants should contact The Reverend Dr. Dorothy A. Austin at daustin@fas.harvard.edu.

Life Raft Bereavement Group
Life Raft is an ongoing drop-in support group where people can talk about their own or others’ life-threatening illness, or about their grief and bereavement. Life Raft is open to anyone connected with the Harvard Community: students, faculty, staff, retirees, and families. Life Raft is free and confidential and meets on Wednesdays from 12:00 to 2:00 p.m. in the Board of Ministry Conference Room on the ground floor of The Memorial Church. For more information, contact Barbara Gilmore of University Health Services at 617-495-2048 or by e-mail at bgilmore@uhs.harvard.edu.

Paul Tillich Lecture
"The Open Universe and the Sacred"
Monday, May 4, 5:15 p.m.
The Memorial Church
The 2008–2009 Paul Tilliich Lecture will be delivered by Stuart A. Kauffman, MD, Visiting Professor of Science and Religion, Harvard Divinity School (Spring Term). Professor Kauffman is Director of the Institute of Biocomplexity and Informatics at the University of Calgary, Canada, where he holds joint appointments in biological sciences, physics and astronomy and is an adjunct professor in philosophy. A MacArthur Fellow (1987–1992), Professor Kauffman is also founding scientist and an external professor at the highly interdiscipinary Santa Fe Institute, where he has done pioneering visionary work in complexity science. He is author of 250 articles and four books, including especially Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason and Religion (2008), a finalist for the 2009 Warwick Writer's Prize (U.K., $90,000). Professor Kauffman has recently addressed two international conferences on science and religion: the May 2008 Qoha, Qatar conference on "Science, Cultures and the Future of Humanity" and the March 2009 five-day Vatican Conference on Science and Evolution.

The lecture is free and open to the public.

Listen to the lecture (MP3 File)

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