On
May 11, 2018,
the ICS community gathered for the Convocation of Junior Members
Julia de
Boer, Godfrey Nkongolo, Mark Novak, and Joseph Kirby. All those
present celebrated in gratitude the commitment and insights that
these graduands offered to ICS during their years at our institution,
and wished them well as they continue to respond to God’s call in
their future undertakings.
This
year’s Convocation included the Installation of our
eighth President, Dr. Ronald A. Kuipers and his Inaugural Address,
Something
We Don’t See: ICS and the Training of a Messianic Imagination.
In his address, Dr. Kuipers described ICS “as
a singular witness to the crucial difference that Christian faith
makes in all areas of life,” a place where students are taught “to
think about contemporary society, both its blessings and its curses,
in light of a story about a God who made the world good, and loves
it.” In closing, he charged the graduands “to hold onto and
cherish” this messianic story, deeply infused in the life of ICS.
To
read the address in our Institutional Repository,
click here,
and to watch the YouTube video, click here.
For
a slideshow with pictures from the event, click here.
