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“The Ethic of Being”

John Fea   |  February 11, 2021

Note: This piece is a slightly revised version of a post I wrote on February 20, 2020. –JF This week in Created and Called for Community at Messiah University we are exploring the Judeo-Christian creation accounts in Genesis 1 and 2.  On Tuesday we read...

Mintz: “It’s time to be blunt: postgraduation success requires a demanding liberal arts curriculum”

John Fea   |  February 6, 2021

Read to the end of this post to learn about supplementary patrons-only content. I am teaching Created and Called for Community again this semester. This is a course required by all Messiah University first-year students in their second semester. Our...

Teaching John Henry Newman’s “What is a University?”

John Fea   |  February 15, 2020

Yesterday in Created and Called for Community we read an excerpt from John Henry Newman‘s “What is a University,” a chapter in his 1852 book The Idea of a University.  Newman wrote this book while serving as rector of Catholic...

Teaching this Semester

John Fea   |  January 31, 2020

This semester, for the first time in my eighteen-year career at Messiah College, I will not be teaching any history courses.  Instead, I will be teaching three sections of a required first-year seminar titled “Created and Called for Community.”  This...

What is a University? Part One

John Fea   |  February 2, 2010

Each Spring semester Messiah College first-year students are required to enroll in a course called “Created and Called for Community.” (Around here we like to call it “The Core”). The purpose of the course is to introduce students to some...

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