Here you can discover 4 types of materials:
- fragments – ideas and minimal outlines as springboards for development
- speaking notes – fairly detailed outlines for busy people
- full presentation texts – speeches on university mission in the 21st
- video presentations
Presentations are organized under eight topics.
Engaging the Whole University for Christ#
A call to engage the whole university.
Four models of Christian presence in the university.
Examples of engaging the whole university.
The process of engaging the university.
( Full text )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: IFES English and Portuguese-Speaking Africa Regional Leadership Consultation
Event Topic: Regional Leadership Consultation
Participants: Regional Secretary, National Secretaries, IFES movement staff and students from 20 countries
Place: Accra
Language: English
Four Models of Christian Presence in the University #
An overview of four models of Christian ministry to the whole university:
- Pietistic
- Evangelistic
- Apologetic
- Dialogic
( Full text | 1011 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: EPSA (English-Portuguese Speaking Africa)
Event Topic: Regional Leadership Consultation
Participants: National Secretaries, Students, Staff
Place: Accra
Language: English
The Dialogic Model#
There are six principal features of a Dialogic Model.
The Dialogic Model involves several shifts in orientation towards a Christian witness in the university.
( Full text | 446 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: EPSA (English-Portuguese Speaking Africa)
Event Topic: Regional Leadership Consultation
Participants: National Secretaries, Students, Staff
Place: Accra
Language: English
Three Premises of Dialogic Engagement#
Three premises of engaging the University through dialog:
Premise 1. God is everywhere in the university.
Premise 2. God has given us a rare calling to work with Him in the university.
Premise 3. We are to bring Christian meaning to the university.
( Full text | 508 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: IFES World Congress, Mexico City
Event Topic: Faculty/Research Student Track
Participants: Graduate students, faculty, IFES staff
Place: Mexico City
Language: English
Video: Theologies for Engaging the University#
What theologies and theological orientations can Christians bring to university research frontiers, debates, big questions, institutional practices and the role of the university in wider society? This video discusses:
- Premises for Theological Engagement
- Grand Themes, featuring Justice
- Virtues
- Bringing Theology to Disciplines
- Bringing Theology to Big Issues
- Great Theologies
( Video | 30 minutes )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Graduate Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: Engaging the University
Participants: Graduate students, JNU
Place: New Dehli
Language: English
Engaging Theologically or Engaging Faithfully#
An approach to the university as an institution via Brueggemann's three-fold interpretation of the Psalms:
- 1st Movement: Psalms of Orientation / University as a Creative Order
- 2nd Movement: Psalms of Disorientation / University as a Fallen Institution
- 3rd Movement: Psalms of Re-orientation / University as a Redeemed Institution
Discussion questions for breakout faculty discussion.
( Full text | 1659 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Boston Faculty Fellowship, January Retreat 2017
Event Topic: Academics as Salt & Light in the University
Participants: Faculty from Boston universities (Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University)
Place: Toah Nipi Retreat Center, New Hampshire
Language: English
Conversation as Christian Virtue#
5 virtues that are cultivated by conversations with university students, staff, and faculty.
- Humility
- Encouragement
- Patience
- Mutuality
- Respect
( Full text | 162 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: National Staff Meeting, Graduate and Faculty Ministries, US InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: Salt and Light: Engaging the University in Presence and Conversation
Participants: US InterVarsity Staff for Graduate and Faculty Ministries
Place: Mundelein, IL
Language: English
Biblical Motifs#
Some motifs cross most every topic in the university
Beauty, Awe/Wonder, Order
Some motifs have an affinity with social sciences, law, and helping professions
Oppression, Power, Justice, Freedom, Forgiveness, Equality, Hope, Compassion
( Speaking notes | 299 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: AGEUP, Peru IFES Movement
Event Topic: "Engaging the University" Conference
Participants: AGEUP staff, students, faculty
Place: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos" (UNMSM), Lima, Perú
Language: English
Biblical Virtues#
We may see the university through the lens of Christian virtues
- Charity
- Patience
- Kindness
- Humility
- Integrity
( Speaking notes | 252 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: AGEUP, Peru IFES Movement
Event Topic: "Engaging the University" Conference
Participants: AGEUP staff, students, faculty
Place: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos" (UNMSM), Lima, Perú
Language: English
Biblical Doctrines#
One approach to academic debates, issues and questions is through great theologies that span the Bible.
1. We need a solid Theology of Creation
2. We need a solid Theology of Reconciliation/Redemption
3. We need a solid Theology of Revelation
( Speaking notes | 308 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: AGEUP, Peru IFES Movement
Event Topic: "Engaging the University" Conference
Participants: AGEUP staff, students, faculty
Place: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos" (UNMSM), Lima, Perú
Language: English
Biblical Images#
3 biblical images of Christian witness in universities:
Salt - adds a distinctive flavor to institutions
Light - expands our understandings
Yeast - the chemical effect of making inert/passive elements rise
( Speaking notes | 219 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: AGEUP, Peru IFES Movement
Event Topic: "Engaging the University" Conference
Participants: AGEUP staff, students, faculty
Place: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos" (UNMSM), Lima, Perú
Language: English
Intersections of Theology and Scholarship#
Think of Big Issues in the University.
Think of great biblical themes and motifs.
Combine these:
EITHER by starting with the theme and relating it to a topic OR beginning with a topic and asking what themes relate to it.
3 practical approaches to apply the intersection of biblical themes x scholarly issues.
( Speaking notes | 215 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: AGEUP, PERU IFES MOVEMENT
Event Topic: Engaging the University
Participants: Graduate students, Faculty, AGEUP staff
Place: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima
Language: English
Video: Engaging our Disciplines in Conversation#
We discuss a conversational approach for Christians in universities--what are conversational topics, how do conversations contribute to the university and to the lives of Christian students and faculty, with whom do we hold disciplinary conversations and about what? How can conversations help us develop Christian virtues?
- What is a conversation?
- What a conversation is not
- Why are we conversing?
- Types of conversations in the university
- Who are our conversation partners?
- Conversations as Christian virtue development
( Video | 27 minutes )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Graduate Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: Engaging the University
Participants: Graduate students, JNU
Place: New Dehli
Language: English
Who Are Our Conversation Partners?#
We have 5 sets of potential conversation partners in the university:
A. Christian and non-Christian friends
B. Christian faculty
C. Non-Christian and non-religious faculty
D. Other campus groups
( Full text | 324 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Northern California Graduate Student Winter Conference
Event Topic: Engaging the University
Participants: Graduate and doctoral students from Northern California research universities
Place: Camp Hammer, Boulder Creek CA
Language: English
Conversations as Academic Skill Development#
This module outlines three ways that Christian groups on campus can develop conversational skills. It proposes that Christian groups on campuses can encourage discipleship AND do so by developing academic skills. Skills workshops could be undertaken as a service to the university by Christian groups and practically support the goals of the university.
( Full text | 665 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Graduate and Faculty Ministries, National Conference, US InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: Salt and Light: Engaging the University in Presence and Conversation
Participants: US InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministry Staff
Place: Mundelein, Illinois
Language: English
Types of Conversations in Universities #
Types of conversations include:
- Disciplinary issues / debates
- Cross-disciplinary issues
- Student concerns
- Local university issues
- Societal issues
( Full text | 309 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: IFES World Assembly, Mexico City
Event Topic: Seminar: Engaging the University through Conversations
Participants: Students
Place: Mexico City
Language: English
Joining Conversations#
How do we enter conversations in the university?
Eight resources that can enrich conversations.
How to interview faculty to advance conversations?
( Speaking notes | 791 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: IFES World Congress
Event Topic: Engaging the University, Grad Student/Faculty Track
Participants: Graduate students, Faculty, IFES Staff
Place: Mexico City
Language: English
What Is a Big Question?#
1. What are Big Questions?
2. Benefits of focus on Big Questions:
- They open up our personal scholarly horizons
- They increase dialog across disciplines, faculties, etc.
- They transcend disciplinary silos
- They reveal multiple points of entry for theological encounters
- They open up a community of conversation among Christian scholars
- They rise above the narrowness of focus in some Christian churches
( Full text | 627 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Michigan Faculty Retreat
Event Topic: Called to Learn
Participants: Faculty and InterVarsity Staff
Place: East Lansing, MI
Language: English
Big Questions in Academic Disciplines#
This module draws on contributions from participants in three Engage Graduate/Faculty IVCF seminars:
- Northern California grad students (Berkeley, Stanford, University of California Santa Cruz, UC Davis)
- US Midwest Faculty Symposium
- US Midwest Graduate Student Symposium
They identify issues and questions in:
- Engineering
- Electrical/Chemical Engineering
- Computing
- Humanities
- Social Sciences
- Physics
- Earth Sciences
- Biosciences/Life sciences
( Full text | 342 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Graduate And Faculty Ministries, National Staff Meeting, US Intervarsity
Event Topic: Salt and Light: Engaging the University in Presence and Conversation
Participants: US InterVarsity staff
Place: Mundelein, Illinois
Language: English
Big Cross Disciplinary Questions#
This module draws on questions identified by professors and doctoral students from Northern California, the US Midwest Faculty Symposium, and Boston Faculty Fellowship.
They identify issues and questions in Social science, Biological and Physical Sciences, Humanities and Education, music, across the university.
( Full text | 569 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Event Organizer: Boston Faculty Fellowship
Event Topic: Academics as Salt & Light in the University
Participants: Faculty from Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University
Place: Tipni Retreat Center, New Hampshire
Language: English
Engaging In Scholarship #
How do professors engage the university in our scholarly activities?
Topic 1: Identifying Big Scholarly Questions/Big Debates
Topic 2: Choosing Research/Scholarly Topics
Topic 3: Doing scholarship/research
Topic 4: Conveying scholarship
The module includes discussion questions for small group breakouts.
( Full text | 1501 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Boston Faculty Fellowship, January Retreat 2017
Event Topic: Academics as Salt & Light in the University
Participants: Faculty from Boston universities (Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University)
Place: Toah Nipi Retreat Center, New Hampshire
Language: English
Engaging In Teaching#
This presentation considers faith perspectives on teaching in the university in three dimensions:
1. What is the relational texture of our teaching?
2. What kinds of thinking do we stimulate as Christian faculty?
3. Teaching the art of conversation
The module includes discussion questions for small group breakouts.
( Full text | 1254 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Boston Faculty Fellowship, January Retreat 2017
Event Topic: Academics as Salt & Light in the University
Participants: Faculty from Boston universities (Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University)
Place: Toah Nipi Retreat Center, New Hampshire
Language: English
Choosing Scholarly Topics#
How should Christian scholars choose the topics on which they work?
Are there topics more inherently Christian or biblically salient than others?
And if we choose, what theological armory do we have?
What are puzzles Christian scholars must solve if they are to integrate faith and learning in a faithful way?
( Speaking notes | 145 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Boston Faculty Fellowship, January Retreat 2017
Event Topic: Academics as Salt & Light in the University
Participants: Faculty from Boston universities (Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University)
Place: Toah Nipi Retreat Center, New Hampshire
Language: English
Conveying Scholarship#
Issues for Christian scholars to consider on:
1. Publication ethics
2. Audiences: university constituencies, scholarly audiences, publics, the church
3. Idioms of communication
4. Communication outlets
( Speaking notes | 298 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Boston Faculty Fellowship, January Retreat 2017
Event Topic: Academics as Salt & Light in the University
Participants: Faculty from Boston universities (Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston University)
Place: Toah Nipi Retreat Center, New Hampshire
Language: English
Visions and Examples of Engaging the University as an Institution#
What are issues that IFES movements worldwide have confronted about the university as an institution and the university in society?
An overview of:
1. Student concerns
2. Local university issues
3. National higher education issues
4. The idea of the university
5. Societal issues
( Speaking notes | 1006 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: AGEUP, the IFES movement of Peru
Event Topic: Engaging the University
Participants: AGEUP staff, students, faculty
Place: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (UNMSM), Lima
Language: English
Video: Getting Practical in Dialogic Engagement#
A discussion of informal and formal approaches to conversations in the university with communities of Christians and the university as a whole. It illustrates these approaches with programs at Stanford University, the University of Chicago, The Australian National University, and elsewhere. Topics:
Informal Approaches : Within Christian Community: Refine the Practice of Questioning
Informal Approaches: University Community: Wider Conversations
Formal Approaches: Within Christian Community:
- Low Key Introductions
- Passion Talks
- Thinking Truth Together
- Scholarly Circles
Challenges and Opportunities
( Video | 28 minutes )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Graduate Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: Engaging the University
Participants: Graduate students, JNU
Place: New Dehli
Language: English
Four Sites and Practices of Engagement: Overview#
One way of thinking systematically about how to be practical is to imagine engagement occurring in two dimensions: Where it occurs and How it occurs. Combining these two dimensions produces four sites for engagement in the university:
A. Informally within Christian circles
B. Formally within Christian circles
C. Informally within the whole university
D. Formally beyond the Christian circle to the whole university
( Full text | 1442 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: US InterVarsity Christian Fellowship (IVCF), Graduate and Faculty Ministry Staff Training
Event Topic: The Integration of Faith, Learning and Practice
Participants: US InterVarsity Staff for Graduate and Faculty Ministries
Place: Techny, Northbrook, IL
Language: English
Passion Talks: Seven IFES Variations On The Theme Of Passion Talks#
Variations on Passion Talks across IFES Movements:
Variation #1 & 2 - T - 3 Events (Simeon Network, Australia)
Variation #3 - Lightning Talks
Variation #4 - Faculty Talks (University of Queensland)
Variation #5 - Scholarly Circles (Australian National University)
Variation #6 - Faculty presentations on current interests
Variation #7 - Graduate Chapter and Under-graduate Chapter Interaction
( Full text | 796 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Graduate and Faculty Ministries, National Conference, US InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: : Salt and Light: Engaging the University in Presence and Conversation
Participants: US InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministry Staff
Place: Mundelein, Illinois
Language: English
Passion Talks: The Biography of Passion Talks in Northern California#
Wendy Quay Honeycutt describes the several stages in the development of Passion Talks on the integration of faith and learning between 2013 and 2015 in Northern California universities. She distinguishes among 3 categories of talks.
( Full text | 2879 words )
Presenter: Wendy Quay Honeycutt
Date:
Event Organizer: Graduate and Faculty Ministries, National Conference, US InterVarsity Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: Workshop on Passion Talks, Annual Conference, Salt and Light: Engaging the University in Presence and Conversation
Participants: US InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministry Staff
Place: Mundelein, Illinois
Language: English
Video: A Scholar's Spiritual Autobiography#
What lessons may be learned from the autobiography of a Christian professor? This reflection on a senior sociologist's life story, from the perspective of a faith journey, begins in New Zealand, journeys to graduate student life at the University of Chicago, and reflects on the challenges and joys of life as a Christian professor in research universities, research institutes and academic communities as they have been experienced in New Zealand, Canada, Australia and the US. Terry Halliday describes nine personal breakthroughs in this journey of grace, wonder and hope.
Key topics:
- My current scholarly agenda
- Five Life Chapters
- Nine Personal Breakthroughs
- Graduate School as a Site for Personal Development
( Video | 23 minutes )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) Graduate Christian Fellowship
Event Topic: Engaging the University
Participants: Graduate students, JNU
Place: New Dehli
Language: English
An Academic and Spiritual Autobiography#
A personal reminiscence of hope, struggle, and redemption in the challenge to integrate faith and learning. This academic spiritual autobiography unfolds in seven chapters and eight personal breakthroughs. These discoveries in the life of faith and learning lead to present-day challenges for the Christian scholar and IFES more broadly.
( Full text | 1424 words )
Presenter: Terry Halliday
Date:
Event Organizer: U.S. InterVarsity, Graduate and Faculty Staff Training
Event Topic: The Integration of Faith, Learning and Practice
Participants: New IVCF graduate and faculty ministry staff
Place: Techny, Illinois
Language: English