Once again I am teaching “Created and Called for Community,” Messiah University’s first-year core course. Today I taught an excerpt from John Henry Newman‘s 1852 book The Idea of a University. If you are a longtime reader of this blog,...
John Henry Newman
“The Ethic of Being”
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”
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?”
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
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
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...