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GRANTHAM, Pa. (September 9, 2004) — Messiah College will host the Faith in the Academy national conference on its Grantham campus from Thursday, Sept. 30, to Saturday, Oct. 2. The Faith in the Academy conference will explore the different ways religious faith is present on American college and university campuses. T he conference is open to the public and registration costs $125, which includes meals and a copy of the book, “Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation.” To register, visit www.messiah.edu/fita. For more information, call (717) 796-5389 or e-mail fita@messiah.edu.

Conference speakers will include many influential leaders in education, such as Lee S. Shulman, president of The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching; Robert Wuthnow, the Gerhard R. Andlinger professor of sociology and director of the Center for the Study of Religion at Princeton University; Robert C. Andringa, president of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities; and Kim Phipps, Messiah’s own interim president, among others. Multiple workshops will also be held throughout the conference on various issues, including spirituality and culture in the classroom, faith and social justice, and institutional culture and Christian scholarship.

The conference begins on Thursday with an introduction by Messiah College professors Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, who are also the authors of “Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation.” Their book is a n important point of reference for the conference as a whole, as it develops a fresh, new vision of how scholarship and Christian faith can be combined in positive and hopeful ways.

About Messiah College

Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 60 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham , Pa. , near the state capital of Harrisburg . A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.

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ARTICLE DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 9 , 2004
ARTICLE NUMBER: MC-110-04