Going Public: Christian Engagement in the Secular World

Does globalization need the wisdom of world religions? Globalization enables the flourishing of human lives, yet its “losers” often cannot satisfy their basic needs, while its “winners” often find that they don’t lead meaningful lives. Religions can exacerbate the situation, creating further division, yet their wisdom can enable humanity to reach beyond itself to others…

An informal gathering with Prof. NT Wright Prof. N.T. Wright is the former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England and one of the world’s leading Bible scholars. He serves as the chair of New Testament and Early Christianity at the School of Divinity at the University of St. Andrews. For twenty years he…

Co-organised by:Faith and Global Engagement, HKUDepartment of Social Work & Social Administration, HKUVisual Psychophysics and Neuroimaging Laboratory, HKU Shame and Contemplative Discovery:A Community Resocialization Process (12:30-2pm) Set within a fragmented community, The Family: People Helping People project is a group process model that aims to facilitate cultural resocialization through personal transformation. Based on the Contemplative Discovery…

‘Only through time time is conquered’, writes T. S. Eliot famously in “Burnt Norton”, the first poem of the Four Quartets. Eliot’s long poem takes us through London’s alleyways and evocative rose–gardens, passing through summer trees and the figured leaf, asking uncertain and uneasy questions. Where are we, as human dancers, in all this history of…

In what MIT Tech Review has called the “biggest biotech discovery of the century,” CRISPR/Cas9 and related techniques promise easy-to-do, inexpensive, and highly precise genetic deletions, insertions, and functional manipulations to basic genetic processes across the full spectrum of living beings. This holds great promise for advances in agriculture, animal studies, and fundamental biomedical research,…

All the best to our Lead for Life 2022 cohort starting on their Year 2 journey. The theme for Year 2 is Service & Flourishing and we wish our students all the best as they are encouraged to take this year to focus on direct community service activities both individually and with their mentor group.