Tom Wolthuis to Preach in Guelph, Edmonton and Calgary This Month

On Sunday, May 5, ICS President Tom Wolthuis will be preaching at New Life Christian Reformed Church, 400 Victoria Road North, Guelph.

On Sunday, May 19, he will be at Fellowship CRC, 9125 - 50 Street, Edmonton.

On Sunday, May 26, he will be at River Park CRC, 3818 14A St SW, Calgary.

Tom Wolthuis and Ron Kuipers in Alberta

Edmonton and Calgary area readers: Please join us for an evening of celebration and discovery of the new initiatives and faces at today's ICS. Dr. Tom Wolthuis, new ICS co-President, and Dr. Ron Kuipers, new Director of ICS' Centre for Philosophy, Religion, and Social Ethics (CPRSE), would like to express appreciation for your ongoing support and share news about some exciting developments now taking place at ICS:

• A partnered, community-based research project with the Christian Reformed Church in Canada exploring the different ways CRC congregants understand the relationship between the Gospel's call to pursue justice and their own sense of spiritual identity

• A planned multi-sector conference on Economic Justice, in partnership with the King's University College, to be held at TKUC in May 2014

We'll include time for discussion of these and other projects so we can hear your thoughts about what we are doing, or even about what you think we should be doing! 

Edmonton location:  West End CRC

10015 - 149th St.  Edmonton

Tuesday, May 21 at 7 pm

Calgary location:  Emmanuel CRC

3020 - 51 St. SW Calgary

Friday, May 24 at 7 pm 

Refreshments will be provided.

We encourage you to invite anyone who you think might be interested in the work of ICS to this event. We are eager to share our work with as wide an audience as possible, and we hope to see you at either the Edmonton or Calgary event!

To help us with our planning, we would greatly appreciate an RSVP to klynch@icscanada.edu.

May 11: Convocation and Installation

You are invited to attend the Annual Convocation of the Institute for Christian Studies for the Conferral of Degrees upon Junior Members and for the Installation of our Presidents, Tom and Dawn Wolthuis. 

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 2:00 pm

St. Joseph Chapel, Regis College

100 Wellesley Street West, Toronto

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Please join us for the celebration! We have seven Junior Members on track to graduate, and we will be installing our new Presidents. If you are able to join us for this important celebration in the life of ICS and its Junior Members, please RSVP no later than Wednesday, May 8, 2013 to sstovell@icscanada.edu. Space is limited.

Presidential Musings from Dawn

I love it that ICS students write their term papers after classes are done. They have completed all of the course readings (in theory, at least) and class discussions this term and can now focus on their own research and writing. This approach seems to facilitate excellent learning with reduced stress throughout the term. Maybe students are stressing now, but we don't see it. Someone was really thinking when they came up with this approach!

The Institute is implementing a new “institutional repository” (IR). I asked a student if she thought our Junior Members might be interested in publishing their papers after it is launched. She said that it sounded like a great idea. Isabella Guthrie-McNaughton, our librarian, writes: “There is a section in the IR for Graduate Student Research and Publications. This section will contain both class papers (put into the IR only after they have been vetted by their Professor), preprints or postprints of published articles and conference papers and/or presentations." I am looking forward to reading student papers in the future.

I have followed some discussions about schools asking students to submit a summary video related to their papers. This sounds like an exciting direction for education, in general. The IR can address audio and video media as well as papers. Not everyone is inclined to sit down and read academic papers, but for someone like me, watching a short video where the student provides an overview is something I would definitely enjoy.  I hope we see more video from academics in the future.

There are many ideas for how we can share research from the Institute with the community. If you have ideas you would like us to hear, feel free to email me at dwolthuis@icscanada.edu.

Tom Wolthuis to Preach in Scarborough and Guelph

On Sunday, April 21, ICS President Tom Wolthuis will be preaching at Grace Christian Reformed Church, 25 Channel Nine Court, Scarborough.
On Sunday, May 25, he will be preaching at New Life Christian Reformed Church, 400 Victoria Road North, Guelph.

May 11: Convocation and Installation

You are invited to attend the Annual Convocation of the Institute for Christian Studies for the Conferral of Degrees upon Junior Members and for the Installation of our Presidents, Tom and Dawn Wolthuis.

Saturday, May 11, 2013 at 2:00 pm
St Joseph Chapel, Regis College, 100 Wellesley Street West, Toronto

Please join us for the celebration! We have seven Junior Members on track to graduate, and we will be installing our new Presidents. If you are able to join us for this important celebration in the life of ICS and its Junior Members, please RSVP no later than Wednesday, May 8, 2013 to sstovell@icscanada.edu. Space is limited.