InterVarsity Graduate Christian Fellowship at UB

Calling all UB graduate students. This semester, we’lll be diving into the Gospel of Luke—a text that is not only spiritually enriching, but one that also resonates with the academic journey. In this 12-week study, we’ll explore how Luke’s vivid narrative and gospel vision offers insight faith, life and graduate student journey.

Got questions about the intersection of faith and science? Come to this event happening Thursday at 7:00.

Event description:

As our understanding of science advances and we learn more about human evolution, questions are mounting about the origins of human nature, the complexities of imperfection, the prevalence of evil, and what this all means for the Christian worldview. Join physicist Loren Haarsma from Calvin College and theologian & philosopher J. Richard Middleton from Northeastern Seminary in a captivating conversation that delves into questions around origins, evil and God.

All perspectives and faith backgrounds are valued, and all voices are encouraged to join this inclusive exploration and thought-provoking dialogue. Haarsma's scientific insights and Middleton's theological wisdom promise to shed light on the origins of human flaws and the nuanced interplay between scientific inquiry and theological contemplation.

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We want to think well and think deeply about the world around us - our departments, our work on campus, and world beyond the university. Join us for the first discussion of this semester's book, Your Mind's Mission, as we think about the life of Jesus and the life of the mind.

Stop by our table on Sept. 1 to meet IVGrad students & staff and learn more about our community at UB.

On our own, we conclude:
there is not enough to go around

we are going to run short
of money
of love
of grades
of publications
of s*x
of beer
of members
of years
of life

we should seize the day
seize our goods
seize our neighbours goods
because there is not enough to go around

and in the midst of our perceived deficit
you come
you come giving bread in the wilderness
you come giving children at the 11th hour
you come giving homes to exiles
you come giving futures to the shut down
you come giving easter joy to the dead
you come – fleshed in Jesus.

and we watch while
the blind receive their sight
the lame walk
the lepers are cleansed
the deaf hear
the dead are raised
the poor dance and sing

we watch
and we take food we did not grow and
life we did not invent and
future that is gift and gift and gift and
families and neighbours who sustain us
when we did not deserve it.

It dawns on us – late rather than soon-
that you “give food in due season
you open your hand
and satisfy the desire of every living thing.”

By your giving, break our cycles of imagined scarcity
override our presumed deficits
quiet our anxieties of lack
transform our perceptual field to see
the abundance………mercy upon mercy
blessing upon blessing.

Sink your generosity deep into our lives
that your muchness may expose our false lack
that endlessly receiving we may endlessly give
so that the world may be made Easter new,
without greedy lack, but only wonder,
without coercive need but only love,
without destructive greed but only praise
without aggression and invasiveness….
all things Easter new…..
all around us, toward us and
by us

all things Easter new.

Finish your creation, in wonder, love and praise. Amen.”

Rest is not primarily something we do, find or make time for. It is, instead, that which we receive when we come to Jesus. And what we receive from Jesus is himself, because Jesus is rest.

As you prepare for the Spring term, come to Jesus and receive his rest.

All graduate/professional students are welcome.

We all need hope. Here is a really excellent set of devotions that center on hope from IV Associate Directory of Spiritual Formation for Faculty, Carrie Bare.

https://thewell.intervarsity.org/spiritual-formation/words-hope-series-carrie-bare