April 30, 2018
Hanover, New Hampshire
Click here, to read our yearly financial update for Christian Union at Dartmouth University. The Lord is moving at Dartmouth. With your help, we believe God will do much more. The ministry needs to raise $114,602 for its ministry at Dartmouth by June 30. Your gift, of any amount, will help to make Christ known at this wonderful university. Please prayerfully consider becoming a financial partner today.
If you have already made a gift, thank you! Would you consider a special, additional gift to help the ministry reach more students with the Gospel?
Make a Difference
1) Click here to give online2) Charge by phone or give appreciated assets: 609-688-1700 X915
3) Pray to see God glorified at Dartmouth
4) Join our prayer email list by emailing: prayer@christianunion.org
April 30, 2018
Ithaca, NY
Click here, to read our yearly financial update for Christian Union at Cornell University. The Lord is moving at Cornell. With your help, we believe God will do much more. The ministry needs to raise $130,985 for its ministry at Cornell by June 30. Your gift, of any amount, will help to make Christ known at this wonderful university. Please prayerfully consider becoming a financial partner today.
If you have already made a gift, thank you! Would you consider a special, additional gift to help the ministry reach more students with the Gospel?
Make a Difference
1) Click here to give online2) Charge by phone or give appreciated assets: 609-688-1700 X915
3) Pray to see God glorified at Cornell
4) Join our prayer email list by emailing: prayer@christianunion.org
April 30, 2018
New York, New York
Click here, to read our yearly financial update for Christian Union at Columbia University. The Lord is moving at Columbia. With your help, we believe God will do much more. The ministry needs to raise $118,651 for its ministry at Columbia by June 30. Your gift, of any amount, will help to make Christ known at this wonderful university. Please prayerfully consider becoming a financial partner today.
If you have already made a gift, thank you! Would you consider a special, additional gift to help the ministry reach more students with the Gospel?
Make a Difference
1) Click here to give online2) Charge by phone or give appreciated assets: 609-688-1700 X915
3) Pray to see God glorified at Columbia
4) Join our prayer email list by emailing: prayer@christianunion.org
April 30, 2018
Providence, Rhode Island
Click here, to read our yearly financial update for Christian Union at Brown University. The Lord is moving at Brown. With your help, we believe God will do much more. The ministry needs to raise $72,630 for its ministry at Brown by June 30th. Your gift, of any amount, will help to make Christ known at this wonderful university. Please prayerfully consider becoming a financial partner today.
If you have already made a gift, thank you! Would you consider a special, additional gift to help the ministry reach more students with the Gospel?
Make a Difference
1) Click here to give online2) Charge by phone or give appreciated assets: 609-688-1700 X915
3) Pray to see God glorified at Brown
4) Join our prayer email list by emailing: prayer@christianunion.org
April 30, 2018
Warm greetings from Palo Alto!
“You are what you love.” Or so claims Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith (in his book by that title), which we recently considered together as a community.
I don’t mean you are the things that you love, but you are the sum of your loves—your actions of loving and desiring. You are not primarily a “thinking thing” (a res cogitans, in the language of Decartes), but a loving and desiring thing. Our thinking is no doubt crucial to who we are, but it is subservient to our loving. Our thoughts are means to the end of—and culminate in—our loving.
“You are what you love.” Or so claims Christian philosopher James K. A. Smith (in his book by that title), which we recently considered together as a community.
I don’t mean you are the things that you love, but you are the sum of your loves—your actions of loving and desiring. You are not primarily a “thinking thing” (a res cogitans, in the language of Decartes), but a loving and desiring thing. Our thinking is no doubt crucial to who we are, but it is subservient to our loving. Our thoughts are means to the end of—and culminate in—our loving.
April 26, 2018
Sisters and Brothers in Christ,
I pray this email finds you well! April has been a busy season in the life of our ministry here at Brown University. We have officially transitioned student leadership over to a new group, who is excited to come together and dream of what God might do on College Hill next year. We had the opportunity to take our first graduating class of seniors on a retreat, April 13 - 14, to celebrate their four years here at Brown and the fact that they are the first group of students to ever be involved with our ministry, a ministry which began the fall of 2014. Much of what our ministry is today has to do with these graduating seniors’ involvement, leadership and vision for what God could do in and through them in their short time in Providence. This is definitely a milestone to celebrate!
April 26, 2018
Greetings,
Another semester at Columbia is coming to a close. As we reflect on all that has happened this semester, we are in awe of God’s goodness toward us. We thank God for an enthusiastic freshman class, fruitful times of ministry and a new ministry center that will serve our community well. Although we are sad to see our seniors go, we are confident that we have prepared them for Christian leadership in whatever vocation they find themselves in.
Another semester at Columbia is coming to a close. As we reflect on all that has happened this semester, we are in awe of God’s goodness toward us. We thank God for an enthusiastic freshman class, fruitful times of ministry and a new ministry center that will serve our community well. Although we are sad to see our seniors go, we are confident that we have prepared them for Christian leadership in whatever vocation they find themselves in.
April 26, 2018
Dear Praying Friends
As I write this it is 70 degrees and sunny here in Ithaca, a warm welcome from winter’s long shadow.
As I write this it is 70 degrees and sunny here in Ithaca, a warm welcome from winter’s long shadow.
April 26, 2018
Dear Prayer Partners,
We are three-quarters of the way through April and it is still cold and overcast here in the Upper Valley. We are all longing for spring with eager anticipation, to say the least! We have much to be thankful for, even amidst a very long winter, which has kept our spirits high.
April 26, 2018
Hello, prayer partners.
Thank you for your faithfulness and continued support. We are grateful for you all and want to give you an April update to inform your prayers.
Thank you for your faithfulness and continued support. We are grateful for you all and want to give you an April update to inform your prayers.
April 26, 2018
Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
As I write you this letter, we are nearing the final stretch of the semester here in Princeton. There are only two weeks of classes left. As we near the end of the Spring semester, we continue to see the fruit of your prayers and support!
As I write you this letter, we are nearing the final stretch of the semester here in Princeton. There are only two weeks of classes left. As we near the end of the Spring semester, we continue to see the fruit of your prayers and support!
April 26, 2018
Dear Prayer Partners,
The spring semester at Yale always seems to fly by, and here we find ourselves again entering the final week of classes. As our Bible courses wrap up, yet even before we send off our graduating seniors, pray for their transition to the next stage of their lives as we rejoice at what God is doing in our midst now.
First off, we thank God for raising up bright new student leaders to carry our ministry forward this next year and beyond. We prayed last spring that God would send us leaders in the incoming class, and He has delivered in a big way. With a current sophomore and two first-years leading our new executive team, and several first-year students stepping into other key leadership positions, we are a young ministry moving forward. We are excited to see what God will do through these young men and women who have already demonstrated not only bold faith, creativity and an eagerness to serve, but also teachability and a real hunger to know God and make Him known together. Please pray for these student leaders, up and running in their new positions as of a few weeks ago, that God will continue to guide, embolden and strengthen them—that they will continue to draw near to God, and He to them.
The spring semester at Yale always seems to fly by, and here we find ourselves again entering the final week of classes. As our Bible courses wrap up, yet even before we send off our graduating seniors, pray for their transition to the next stage of their lives as we rejoice at what God is doing in our midst now.
First off, we thank God for raising up bright new student leaders to carry our ministry forward this next year and beyond. We prayed last spring that God would send us leaders in the incoming class, and He has delivered in a big way. With a current sophomore and two first-years leading our new executive team, and several first-year students stepping into other key leadership positions, we are a young ministry moving forward. We are excited to see what God will do through these young men and women who have already demonstrated not only bold faith, creativity and an eagerness to serve, but also teachability and a real hunger to know God and make Him known together. Please pray for these student leaders, up and running in their new positions as of a few weeks ago, that God will continue to guide, embolden and strengthen them—that they will continue to draw near to God, and He to them.
April 26, 2018
Are Human Embryos Human Beings? Are They 'Persons'?; A Power With (Part 2); How History's Revivals Teach Us to Pray; A Feast of Grace: Art, Faith, and Generosity in Babette’s Feast; The Blindness of Social Wealth; Yes, California Is on the Verge of Banning Some Christian Books, Here’s How and more, in this issue of Christian Union's bi-monthly email brief.
In the days of his flesh, Jesus offered up prayers and supplications, with loud cries and tears, to him who was able to save him from death, and he was heard because of his reverence.
— Hebrews 5:7
April 25, 2018
Palo Alto, CA
Click here, to read our yearly financial update for Christian Union Caritas -- Christian Union's ministry to students at Stanford.The Lord is moving at Stanford. With your help, we believe God will do much more. The ministry needs to raise $288,923 for its ministry at Stanford by June 30. Your gift, of any amount, will help to make Christ known at this wonderful university. Please prayerfully consider becoming a financial partner today.
If you have already made a gift, thank you! Would you consider a special, additional gift to help the ministry reach more students with the Gospel?
Make a Difference
1) Click here to give online2) Charge by phone or give appreciated assets: 609-688-1700 Option 2
3) Pray to see God glorified at Stanford
4) Join our prayer email list by emailing: prayer@christianunion.org
April 25, 2018
Cambridge, MA
Click here, to read our yearly financial update for Christian Union at Harvard Law.The Lord is moving at Harvard Law. With your help, we believe God will do much more. The ministry needs to raise $96,467 for its ministry at Harvard Law by June 30. Your gift, of any amount, will help to make Christ known at this wonderful university. Please prayerfully consider becoming a financial partner today.
If you have already made a gift, thank you! Would you consider a special, additional gift to help the ministry reach more students with the Gospel?
Make a Difference
1) Click here to give online2) Charge by phone or give appreciated assets: 609-688-1700 X915
3) Pray to see God glorified at Yale
4) Join our prayer email list by emailing: prayer@christianunion.org
April 23, 2018
By Justin Doyle
We'll scorch the earth
In part one of this post, I began to explore the meaning of the subdue/rule language of the Creation Mandate in Genesis 1:26-28 with the help of Richard Middleton’s book, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1. If you haven’t already done so, I invite you to take a few minutes to go back and read that post and catch up before continuing with this post.
We'll scorch the earth
Set fire to the sky
We stoop so low
to reach so high
A link is lost
The chain undone
We wait all day
For night to come
And it comes
Like a hunter child
- Bono
(Christ Jesus) had equal status with God but didn’t think so much
of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no
matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges
of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!
...He lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless,
obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.
- Phil. 2:6-8 (The Message)
In part one of this post, I began to explore the meaning of the subdue/rule language of the Creation Mandate in Genesis 1:26-28 with the help of Richard Middleton’s book, The Liberating Image: The Imago Dei in Genesis 1. If you haven’t already done so, I invite you to take a few minutes to go back and read that post and catch up before continuing with this post.
April 21, 2018
The Nexus 2018 theme of "Turn the World Upside Down" comes from Acts 17, when Christians were accused of turning the world upside down with the message of Jesus Christ. What does it mean to turn the world upside down with the Good News? In God’s "upside down" economy, Christ died so that we might live, the weak are strong, the poor are rich. How can we be a part of what God is doing today? These questions were at the heart of Nexus.
For one weekend, students worshiped and prayed together, heard from high-caliber speakers, experienced engaging breakout sessions, connected with one another in small groups, and built cross-campus ties around shared challenges and opportunities.
For one weekend, students worshiped and prayed together, heard from high-caliber speakers, experienced engaging breakout sessions, connected with one another in small groups, and built cross-campus ties around shared challenges and opportunities.
April 19, 2018
Forum Explores Art, Faith, and Generosity in Babette’s Feast
On April 17, 2018, Christian Union partnered with The Trinity Forum to co-host an evening of rich conversation centered on the off-Broadway production of Babette’s Feast, a timeless tale of lavish generosity and community-transforming grace. (1:16:45)
April 17, 2018
Saturday, May 26, 2018
10:30am – 1:00pm
Christian Union Ministry Office
1166 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Christian Union and Harvard College Faith and Action invited all Reunions participants from all classes, all denominations, and all Christian ministries to this annual event. Connect with Christian alumni, visit with current students, and meet the Christian Union ministry faculty and staff.
Learn More
For questions about the Harvard Reunion Gathering 2018 hosted by Christian Union and Princeton Faith and Action, contact Christian Union’s Director of Alumni Engagement Meghan Foley at Christine.Foster@christianunion.org.
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10:30am – 1:00pm
Christian Union Ministry Office
1166 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge
Christian Union and Harvard College Faith and Action invited all Reunions participants from all classes, all denominations, and all Christian ministries to this annual event. Connect with Christian alumni, visit with current students, and meet the Christian Union ministry faculty and staff.
Learn More
For questions about the Harvard Reunion Gathering 2018 hosted by Christian Union and Princeton Faith and Action, contact Christian Union’s Director of Alumni Engagement Meghan Foley at Christine.Foster@christianunion.org.
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April 12, 2018
Christian Union New York was delighted to partner with Generous Giving to host a Journey of Generosity on April 7th, 2018.
