Division of Humanities, Honors, and Education

Join us Sept. 5-8, 2024, for The Undiscovered C.S. Lewis Conference and celebrate the camaraderie, imagination and faith of this great author and the many scholars and enthusiasts who follow in his footsteps. 

Dr. MaryKate Morse is the 2024 recipient of the Richard J. Foster Award in Spiritual Formation. The award recognizes those whose intellectual and practical work helps others come into an ongoing transformational relationship with Jesus Christ. Having served George Fox and Portland Seminary for more than 30 years, Dr. Morse's practice, publications and presence made her an exceptional choice for this year's award.

In 2020, Sabrina Little completed her PhD in Philosophy at Baylor University. Before Baylor, she studied Philosophy of Religion at Yale Divinity School and Philosophy and Psychology at The College of William & Mary. Her main areas of interest are virtue ethics, moral psychology, and classical philosophy. She is writing about the nature of moral habituation and exploring emotional precursors to moral virtues. She also writes about character education and moral exemplarity. Her first book, The Examined Run was released in March 2024.

In the fall of 2024, George Fox University’s Department of Language and Literature launched the inaugural Eclectic Texts Conference (ETC), a two-day event aimed at combining popular cultural texts with academic research for the purpose of sharing how these texts both create their own influence while simultaneously drawing influence from other texts throughout history.

This two-day event explored the Christian vision of the human heart and its relationship to knowledge and desire.

The Richard J. Foster Award in Spiritual Formation recognizes those whose intellectual and practical work helps others come into an ongoing transformational relationship with Jesus Christ. This award recognizes both established and rising figures whose work continues in the spirit of Foster himself.

All the candidates running for one of the five open seats on the Newberg School Board have been invited to participate in a candidates forum, co-sponsored by the Civility Project, the Chehalem Valley Chamber of Commerce, and the Newberg City Club.

Join us in Canyon Commons for a lecture presented by the C. S. Lewis Initiative and the honors program. Speaker Marc LiVecche will present “The Peacemaker: C. S. Lewis on War, Martial Character, and Loving our Enemies to Death.” Ron Mock, director of the Civility Project, will provide a response to the talk.

Join us for “Shakespeare, C. S. Lewis, & Cultural Apologetics,” with Joseph Ricke and Sarah Waters. This event is hosted by the Department of Language and Literature, the C. S. Lewis Initiative, and the Apologetics Initiative.

The Apologetics Initiative and the C. S. Lewis Initiative invite you to a special presentation by Dr. Paul Lorenzini’s, “C.S. Lewis’s The Abolition of Man Eighty Years Later: An Engineer’s Perspective. All are welcome to join us for this thought-provoking presentation.

Join us for a two-day event exploring why Christianity still resonates with humanity.

Have political divisions caused tension in the relationships in your family, school, church, work or community? Learn how to become a “post-partisan Christian” and how this new identity can heal our relationships – and hopefully our society.