New College-Adv Christian Stdy

read moreDuring the fall, spring, and summer terms, our curricula often are organized around a theme of special relevance to the interests of our constituency. New College Berkeley carries out its mission and ministry amid the intellectual, cultural, political, and ethnic diversity of the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. The truths of biblical Christianity are best learned and lived in open encounter with other points of view and styles of life. Our faculty and students seek to learn to be "in the world, but not of it."

read moreNew College Berkeley, a long-standing center for Christian studies, bears the motto: "Let Us Walk in Newness of Life." Since its founding in 1977, New College Berkeley has served undergraduates, graduate students, and life-time learners with wide-ranging courses, conferences, seminars, lectures, and retreats aimed at renewing minds, deepening faith, and shaping vocation. We do so at in-person gatherings and, especially in a season of public health concerns, we also do so through on-line gatherings.

read moreMany participants in our programs are Christians looking for a better understanding of their faith as it relates to today's pressing questions. Sometimes it is a matter of personal discipleship: a person with a chronic illness attends a course about where God is when we suffer, or a person whose brother is involved with New Age spirituality attends a lecture that is a Christian theologian's response to the New Age. Because of the proximity of New College Berkeley to the University of California, undergraduate and graduate students frequently attend our programs as they look for Christian teaching that can engage the secular arguments they encounter in their classrooms and reading.

read moreThe area was and is a crucible of social change and intellectual fervor, radiating out across the nation. NCB's founders, a group of lay Christians, pastors, and scholars, established New College Berkeley to provide our students, both Christian and those interested in Christianity with a place to study and talk about how contemporary Christians engage contemporary issues. NCB's founders were committed to providing high-caliber interdisciplinary studies for the laity. They believed that all Christians, not only professional clergy, have a ministry.