North Carolina Study Center: Recent Episodes
North Carolina Study Center
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Hear directly from current UNC students as they spill the tea on all things UNC in our newly-launched podcast with Lauren Gilbert ('23) as your host.
In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.
In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.
In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.
In this series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.
In this week-long series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.
In this week-long series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.
Kicking off this week-long series, Matt Hoehn (Director of Programs & Education) dives into the 1943 work 'Abolition of Man' by C.S. Lewis and explores how it applies to our lives today.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued reading and study of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.' 993140
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued study of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.'
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reflection on columnist David Brooks' 'Commencement Address Too Honest to Deliver in Person' with continued study of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.'
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reading of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.'
"All doctrine concerns either one of two things: either things or signs. Things are learned by signs."
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reading of St Augustine's work, 'On Christian Doctrine.'
"Everything which does not decrease on being given away is not properly owned when it is owned and not given, for Jesus says, 'He that has, to him shall be given...' (Matthew 13:12)."
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, music by Claire Holley, American folk singer-songwriter from Mississippi - 'O Love That Will Not Let Me Go' from the album 'Every Hour' (2019).
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued study in the book of Matthew through the commentary by Frederick Dale Bruner.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, continued reflection on the book of Matthew and rules of life.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reflection on what to do with the Golden Rule, and what comes after it in the Sermon on the Mount.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a look inside our staff interview with investor Kevin Compton and UNC students Ben Cooke and Addie Morgan about success, how to treat others, and Matthew 7.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, some words for all the seniors, the Class of 2020.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, the last day of final exams at UNC, a reflection on the intricacy of creation, family, and our only comfort in life and death as described in the Heidelberg Catechism.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, an excerpt from 'The Read-Aloud Handbook' by Jim Trelease (1979) paired with Psalm 4.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 72 with a look inside our live Zoom reading and prayer at 8:30am EST, and our concert and conversation with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken and American theologian Ellen Davis later at 8:00pm EST. (More info at ncstudycenter.org/events)
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, 1 Corinthians 13, "if I do not have love."
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 2, a 'testament to the hubris of man.'
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 114 with Micah 6:8.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, further reflection through 'The Supper of the Lamb: A Culinary Reflection' (1969) by Robert Farrar Capon on the relationship between creation and grace.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Psalm 133.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on Psalm 4 through a reading from 'The Supper of the Lamb' by Robert Farrar Capon.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on Psalm 4 in light of a conversation with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken and theologian Ellen Davis - continued.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on Psalm 4 in light of a conversation with singer-songwriter Sandra McCracken and theologian Ellen Davis.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, reflections on the living Jesus through continued study of Luke 24 as inspired by Rev. David Dunderdale (Blacknall, Durham).
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, Easter Monday, Luke 24:1-8 inspired by local church sermon from Rev. David Dunderdale (Blacknall, Durham) on Easter Sunday.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, English poet WIlliam Blake's 'The Lamb' from 1789 set to music in 1982 by John Tavener, late English composer.
Music performed in Saints Peter and Paul Church, Clifton.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection on the power of song, Proverbs 20:5 and 25:11, and American singer-songwriters John Prine and Nanci Griffith.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a reflection for this Holy Week through a brief reading from 'One Long River of Song: Notes on Wonder' by Brian Doyle.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, 1 Corinthians 1:25-31 with selected quotes from Francis de Sales, 16th-century Genevan bishop
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a study of Philippians 1:27-2:18.
Daily meditation on scripture with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd. Today, a study of Revelation 1:1-9 through the lens of Psalm 89:46-52.
Daily meditation on scripture, a reading of Revelation 1:1-19, with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.
Daily meditation on scripture, Revelation 1:1-3, with NCSC Director of Spiritual Formation Bill Boyd.
Christian thought leader, professor, and award-winning author Dr. James KA Smith spoke at UNC-Chapel Hill on the topic of ambition, drawing from his newly released and much celebrated book, On the Road with Saint Augustine. As our guide, Smith will show how “Augustine’s timeless wisdom speaks to the worries and struggles of contemporary life,” particularly our worries and struggles over whether our ambitions are vain or virtuous.
Learn more about the North Carolina Study Center at ncstudycenter.org.
Stanley Hauerwas, theological ethicist and professor of Divinity and Law at Duke University, was described by Time Magazine as "America's best theologian." Farr Curlin is a hospice and palliative care physician, and professor of Medical Humanities also at Duke in the Theology, Medicine & Culture program.
The North Carolina Study Center, in partnership with InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministries at UNC, hosted them in Wilson Library for a frank conversation on a topic largely taboo in western culture today: Why are Americans so afraid of death? Questions like: What is our culture's view of death right now? What is the Christian view of death? In what way is Christianity a training ground in the art of dying well?
Study center staff member Bill Boyd met with with Dr. Thomas Pfau of Duke University and UNC-Chapel Hill to talk about the formative personal and cultural discipline that is "reading.”
More at ncstudycenter.org/news
Our keynote speaker was Dr. Warren Kinghorn, Professor of Psychiatry and Pastoral Theology at Duke University. He discussed the mental health climate on today’s college campus and what that means for parents of college students. It was a stimulating time of encouragement, insight and fellowship among Carolina parents.
The first plenary address and audience discussion offered parents a comprehensive overview of the mental health issue on college campuses. The second address was titled: ‘It is Good that You Exist: On Being Loved by God in a World Marked by Shame.’
Our keynote speaker was Dr. Warren Kinghorn, Professor of Psychiatry and Pastoral Theology at Duke University. He discussed the mental health climate on today’s college campus and what that means for parents of college students. It was a stimulating time of encouragement, insight and fellowship among Carolina parents.
The first plenary address and audience discussion offered parents a comprehensive overview of the mental health issue on college campuses. The second address was titled: ‘It is Good that You Exist: On Being Loved by God in a World Marked by Shame.’
Learn more about the NC Study Center Parents Council here: http://www.ncstudycenter.org/parents-council/
Panel discussion with Lecrae and Dr. Esau McCaulley, moderated by Susan King, dean of the UNC School of Media and Journalism.
Paul tells us in Philippians to "not be anxious about anything", but for some, that anxiety can be crippling and inescapable. How are we to interpret Biblical truths along with the benefits of modern medicine, psychiatry and antidepressants?
Dr. Warren Kinghorn from Duke University joined us in Chapel Hill to explore the proper role of both medication and spirituality for those living with mental health conditions.
This lecture event was co-sponsored by Cru @ UNC, College Collective, and UNC Mental Health Ambassadors, with special thanks to Duke's Center for Christianity and Scholarship and Duke Cru for pioneering this event at Duke in 2017.
Many have heard the popular narrative that science and religion are irreconcilably at odds with one another. But is this the way that leading scientists and people of religious faith actually see things?
Dr. Ecklund is the Herbert S. Autrey Chair in Social Sciences, Professor of Sociology, and director of the Religion and Public Life Program at Rice University, where she is also a Rice Scholar at the Baker Institute for Public Policy.