Faculty Commons
Faculty Commons (known until 2007 as Christian Leadership Ministries, CLM[1][2]) is the faculty ministry of Cru. Its aim is to "disciple and mentor Christian professors" with a goal of 500 "Faculty Affiliates" (faculty members promoting Faculty Commons aims) and at least three Faculty Affiliates in each of the 100 largest universities in the United States of America, to enable these professors to "continually saturate [their] campus with the gospel, and fully integrate their faith into their academic discipline and culture".[3][4]
Through its Leadership University website, Faculty Commons maintains "Virtual Faculty Offices" for Christian professors affiliated with it, including a number of members of the intelligent design movement (for whom it also maintains archives of their writings[5]), most prominently Phillip E. Johnson and William Dembski, and Roe v. Wade plaintiff turned pro-life advocate Norma McCorvey.[6]
Rationale
According to a poll cited by the Faculty Commons website, "only 30% of the entire student population is being exposed to the gospel of Jesus Christ even once in an academic year", which led Faculty Commons to conclude "[a] Christian professor sharing a brief Christian testimony the first day of class may be the ONLY Christian witness that many students will hear while they are in college."[3]
National Faculty Leadership Conferences
Faculty Commons has sponsored the National Faculty Leadership Conferences since about 1982.[7] The 2008 conference included J. P. Moreland, Richard Pratt, and William Lane Craig as plenary speakers.[8]
Notes
- ^ The Two Tasks of the Christian Scholar: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind, William Lane Craig, et al., p20
- ^ The organisation is however more widely known under the name 'Christian Leadership Ministries'. See, for example, Forrest and Gross (2004), Weinstein and Seay, and their own web pages at http://www.leaderu.com/msu/chapter17.html Chapter 17 Christian Leadership Ministries Involvement, Going Native in Ministry, Part Four: Regrets, Chapter 6: the World at Your Door
- ^ a b Forrest and Gross (2204) p 268, quoting Archived 2001-11-07 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Thayer Notes (Alumni News), John Walkup, Dartmouth Engineer, Summer 2008
- ^ Forrest and Gross (2004) p177
- ^ Virtual Faculty Offices of Christian Professors, Leadership University
- ^ Chapter 17 Christian Leadership Ministries Involvement
- ^ Christians in Engineering and Technology Newsletter
External links
- Faculty Commons CLM website
- CLM Leadership University website