Going Public: Christian Engagement in the Secular World

Synopsis Mathematics has revolutionized technology and is shaping the modern world in amazing ways, even shaping the way people think. Yet many people say “I’m not a math person” without realizing the ways they already think mathematically, and without seeing how such thinking is central to what it means to be a human being. Discover…

Want to serve your community?  Dr. Kevin Lau is an active participant of various community services and charity work. He currently serves as a Steering Committee Member of the HKSAR Government Child Development Fund, Member of the HKSAR Government Criminal and Law Enforcement Injuries Compensation Board, Member of the HKSAR Government Industry Training Advisory Committee (Elderly…

Faith and Global Engagement is excited to be a conference partner… On March 18-20, 2021 (Eastern Time), Wake Forest Program for Leadership and Character will host a free virtual conference on Character and the Professions. This conference explores how virtuous character sustains ethical leadership across six professional contexts: business, divinity, engineering and technology, law, medicine, and public…

Science and religion have had had a long and complicated global history of engagement. This has been shaped by a combination of factors inherent to the particular areas of scientific and religious activity involved, as well as by the prevailing historical and cultural contexts. In Hong Kong, academic scientists are more religious than the general…

Why do the arts matter so much to people of religious faith? It is often assumed that the arts are chiefly concerned with pulling us out of this world of space and time into some completely different, supposedly superior world, and that this is why they are so appealing to religion.  In this distinguished lecture, Prof….

The Character of Leadership is a collaboration between HKU Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU Faith and Global Engagement, The Oxford Global Leadership Initiative, and The Oxford Character Project, sponsored by Templeton World Charity Foundation.