I’m a musician. I write songs. I just hope that when the day is done, I’ll have torn a little corner off of the darkness.-Bono
Bono captures the heart of any concerned artist, the desire to make a difference. We’re pretty confident that the same desire undergirds your call to academie, your love for your discipline. You want to make a difference.
Certainly as a faculty member, you’re committed to tearing a hole in your own intellectual darkness and in the intellectual “unknowing” of your students. Certainly, as a faculty member, you also want to contribute to the marketplace of ideas.
In addition, for those of you who are Christ-followers, you’ve probably wrestled with ways to help fellow faculty and the students at your campus see what you’ve found in the person of Jesus Christ. To see, as Paul of Tarsus wrote, the “light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ (2 Corinthians 4:6).”
We’d like to help. The institutions of learning (colleges, universities, schools) should be places that make the world a better place. As a faculty member, you shape those institutions in unique and powerful ways. You also shape, not only your discipline, but also the fellow faculty with whom you work and the students you teach. As a Christ-follower, you sense as well God’s calling on you to be salt and light for His loving rule and reign.
Faculty Commons, as a movement of professors and faculty, recognizes that “integration of faith and work” takes place in the person, the whole person. Everything matters—your whole life including your faith, your family, your academic discipline, your position on campus, your health, your hobbies–all of you. As Jesus once said, all of the Scriptures are summarized in loving God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength and your neighbor as your self.
Take some time to review our mission, vision and values here. If you’d like to explore ways of integrating “all of you”, we’d like to help you in that journey. We also need your help as well.
After you’ve reviewed where we’re headed, we’d love to have you take the next steps. See next steps here.
