Going Public: Christian Engagement in the Secular World

L4L is a four-year, transformational journey for HKU students to acquire the characteristics needed for lifelong leadership – leadership, which is life-enriching, life-nurturing (for leaders and group members) and a way of life.  The purpose is to help students flourish during their time at HKU, and to equip them to build flourishing communities afterwards.  We…

Can social media make us happy? When Dr. Donna Freitas set out to interview university students across the United States about social media, she found happiness to be a recurring theme in those conversations. When students talk about social media and their smartphones, they do so in a way that measures their happiness – or the appearance of…

Organizer: Association for the Psychology of ReligionCo-organizers: Department of Psychology, HKU; Hong Kong Shue Yan University, Faith and Global Engagement Initiative, HKU; Gratia Christian College Sponsor: Logos Book House Program (A total of 15 papers) Session 1: Psychology of Religion in Global Perspective – Keynote speech by Professor Raymond PaloutzianEmeritus Professor of Westmount College, Former…

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…

13 January 2014 | 9:30am – 5:30pm14 January 2014 | 9:30am – 5pm Organisers: Centre for Comparative and Public Law, the Faith and Global Engagement initiative, and Bridging Gaps This interfaith conference will explore the relationship between spiritual ethos and power in a number of world religions – Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, and Judaism. In particular, the conference…

Denis Alexander provides an engaging approach to the question of what it means to be human. With insights from genetics, philosophy and theology, Alexander shows that contemporary science is a gift to natural theology and that theology and science can indeed learn from and support one another. About the talk The old, bad days of…