Is Justice Possible? – Pre-Lecture Discussion

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. The…

The Lead for Life Yearend Celebration was held on 15 April 2023. Celebrating the end to another year of growing character leadership and building flourishing communities!

Synopsis How ‘western’ is Christianity? This joint lecture explores Chinese contributions to Christian thought, and how Chinese viewpoints on the human may change and challenge traditional ideas inherited from the West.  Peng Yin probes the difference Chinese philosophy makes for a Christian understanding of human nature.  He diagnoses three flawed European imageries of China, and identifies their…

One of the grand questions of all great art, literature, and philosophy is this: What does it meant to be human? This is a central question in science and also in theology.  These two views of the world seem to present contrasting pictures. Are we similar to the other animals, or are we different? Are…

An evening of new music, poetry and dialogue, exactly thirteen years after the devastation of 9/11, to explore journeys of restoration and hope taken in the process of the QU4RTETS artistic collaboration. Led by artists Makoto Fujimura and Bruce Herman, composer Christopher Theofanidis, and theologian Jeremy Begbie, the dialogue presents how their collaboration came to mediate personal and common experiences of devastation, particularly…