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| Presidential Inauguration Ceremony | | | John and Charles Wesley Chapel | | Inauguration Gala | | In celebration of the decade in which Houghton College received its permanent charter, the Student Life Office is hosting a Roaring Twenties party on the quad. Students, parents and visitors are all welcome and encouraged to arrive in costumes fitting for the 1920s. Guests will enjoy jazz music, poetry readings and skits as well as food and inventions of the era. | Quad | | Inauguration Academic Colloquium | | All are invited.
A seminar on “Fixing up this world: Houghton and the Wesleyan imperative for personal transformation and global engagement” will feature presentations and dialogue with four guest speakers.
James E. Kirby, professor emeritus of church history at Southern Methodist University, is a specialist in the history of Methodism as well as religion and American culture.
Joel A. Carpenter, current provost of Calvin College and former Director of the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals at Wheaton College, is a church historian with interests in fundamentalism and contemporary evangelicalism.
John R. Tyson, professor of theology at Houghton College, is an award-winning Wesley scholar and church historian.
Carolyn Paine Miller is the current president of SIL International and the daughter of Stephen W. Paine, Houghton’s second president. She and her husband John have served as missionaries in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand and Vietnam. | Wesley Chapel | | Inauguration Reception | | Reception following the Inauguration of Dr. Shirley Mullen as Houghton College's 5th President. All are welcome.
Guests are welcome to witness the unveiling of a portrait of President Mullen painted by Houghton College alumnus Kyle M. Stevenson and commissioned as a gift from the class of 2007. | Campus Center Lounge | | Inauguration Luncheon | | Luncheon for Inauguration Guests. | Campus Center Dining Commons | | Inauguration Concert | | Concert performed by groups/individuals from the Greatbatch School of Music.
| Wesley Chapel | | Chapel: Prof. Miroslav Volf, Yale University & Divinity School | |
Chapel is Monday, Wednesday and Friday of each week while school is in session. | Wesley Chapel | | Houghton College Alumni Association Annual Meeting | | | Big Al's | | Homecoming Parade | | | | | Homecoming Banquet: The Roarin' Twenties: Making Tomorrow Out of Yesterday | | | | | SPOT | | | Wesley Chapel | | Family Renewal Service | | | Wesley Chapel/Recital Hall | | Lecture: Prof. Miroslav Volf | | Miroslav serves as Director of Yale Center for Faith & Culture and Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School. Miroslav has argued in many contexts for Christian faith to be seen not as an additive to help us cope with this or that problem but as a way of life. Faith, therefore, matters in all spheres of live.
Miroslav teaches theology at Yale Divinity School and Yale College. In addition to teaching required courses in systematic theology, he teaches courses on the theology of Luther, on grace and forgiveness, and many others. A native of Croatia, he has forged a theology of forgiveness and non-violence in the face of the horrendous violence experienced in Croatia and Serbia in the 1990s. While he maintains active interest in many aspects of faith’s relation to culture, his primarily work has focused on theological understandings of work, the church, the Trinity, violence, reconciliation and memory.
Books, publications and resources by Miroslav Volf
(http://www.yale.edu/faith/center/volf.htm)
The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World
Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace
“Christianity and Violence”
“God at Work”
“Memory, Salvation, and Perdition”
“Soft Difference: Theological Reflections on the Relation Between Church and Culture in 1 Peter”
“A Voice of One’s Own: Public Faith in a Pluralistic World” | Wesley Chapel | | Haunted House | | This is an event being hosted in the Shen Basement by the Class of 2011.
50 cents to get in | Shenawana Hall Rec Room |
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