Never Done: Endurance. Purpose. Faith.

Music, like vision and arts, can transcend the limitations of morality over time.  The programme for this concert is conceived as a response to T. S. Eliot’s Four Quartets, taking up three themes:   The Still Point of Redemption: Pergolesi’s Stabat MaterThe Still Point of Eternity: Fauré’s RequiemThe Still Point of Longing: Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, a work composed in the…

Hope shapes what we think of the future and our purpose in life.  Yet in Hong Kong, despite its insatiable energy, do the high walls of the city block out the light of hope?   Hope seems to be a problem – a broken promise that is never satisfied.  Is hope like a fairy tale, a…

The “Global South” is not the helpful image it once was for the purposes of understanding economic growth and the Christian rise in Chinese societies. Instead, I propose to adopt the concept of Global China. Global China means Chinese societies of China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, as well as Chinese diasporas in Asia, the…

Synopsis Drawing on more than 10 years of research interviewing 550 of the world’s prominent leaders, Dr. Michael Lindsay shares lessons learned on how the most accomplished leaders navigate VUCA- the Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity, we see all around us today. Speakers bio: Michael Lindsay is the President of Taylor University in the U.S….

There aren’t many topics on which superheroes, religious leaders, and cutting-edge psychological science converge, but “How can I find purpose and meaning in my career?” is one.  In this talk, Dr. Bryan Dik, vocational psychologist, professor, entrepreneur, and co-author of Make Your Job a Calling, will use examples and evidence to explore what a calling means, how to discern…

Co-organised by:Faith and Global Engagement, HKUDepartment of Social Work & Social Administration, HKUVisual Psychophysics and Neuroimaging Laboratory, HKU Anger is often associated as one of the major faces of shame in society. The word shame’ has been traced to the root meaning to cover or to hide, exemplified in the Biblical narrative of Adam and Eve. Shame is…