Meaningful Work: your Research & Scholarship and the Biblical Narrative
Thu, Nov 06
|GSS Loft (Room 4202), the Nest, UBC
Dinner + small group discussion led by Dr. Arnold Sikkema on how our academic work fits within Sacred Scripture’s Creation-Fall-Redemption Narrative.
Time & Location
Nov 06, 2025, 6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
GSS Loft (Room 4202), the Nest, UBC, 6133 University Blvd, Vancouver, BC V6T 1Z1, Canada
About the event
Please RSVP as we need to estimate how much to prepare for dinner.
This event is a collaboration with the Canadian Scientific and Christian Affiliation (https://csca.ca/vancouver/) and the Graduate Christian Fellowship at UBC - Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. Special thanks to Alan Lensink's for organizing! https://ivcf.ca/people/alan-lensink/
INTENDED AUDIENCE
Graduate students, university staff and faculty
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
It is generally understood that faith should inform everything Christians do. Christians in the sciences, and quite generally in all callings, have for centuries been motivated to do their work to the glory of God and for the benefit of humankind. This workshop explores how your graduate studies and research fit into the grand Biblical story of creation, fall, and redemption. The perspective of a world created good, and which, though now broken, is being and will be redeemed can situate and motivate the life and work of a graduate student. Dr. Sikkema will introduce…