The mission of the Arizona Center for Christian Studies is to explore a Christian perspective in every academic discipline, seeking intelligent dialogue with all. Our focus is Arizona State University in Tempe. Our office is located at the Campus Christian Center, which is adjacent to the campus. However, we relate to faculty members and students at other colleges and universities throughout Arizona and beyond.

Through our programs we have sought to integrate Christian faith and diverse areas of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, especially as the Center is the lead sponsor of the Conference on Faith and Science (COFAS) at ASU. However, our goal is to expand the Center's scope to include Art and Design; Business; Education; Healthcare and Medicine; History; Law; Languages and Literatures; Media and Communications; Music, Dance, and Theatre; Philosophy; Religious Studies, Social Sciences, Social Work, and other academic disciplines.

The broad scope of the Center is feasible only through the extensive network of Christian faculty members that we have been developing for many years. We intend to accelerate this development as a strategic priority along with increasing staff and funding to support the network. Join us in this mission!

The mission of the Fellows and staff of the Rivendell Institute to change the modern university and contemporary culture by holding forth a Christian view of life at Yale focuses on three initiatives: Research, Spiritual Formation, and Public Witness. Our Research Fellows pursue the integration of Christian faith and scholarship, including work we do and work we promote. Our Spiritual Formation Fellows challenge students to inhabit their disciplines with the mind and mission of Christ. Our public witness involves efforts to engage students and faculty with a thoughtful, compelling demonstration of the significance of Christ to the issues and ideas of the age. Our efforts cultivate a faithful, strategic presence at Yale and seek to raise up a new generation of Christian leaders who will influence the campus and the world beyond Yale.

We celebrate the university as a place to discover, conserve, and cultivate God’s good creation and to form us for our fundamental vocation as divine image-bearers and stewards of the earth. We believe God is at work to reconcile and renew all things through Jesus Christ. For centuries, Christians have devoted themselves wholeheartedly to academic inquiry and professional practice in light of this ultimate hope, seeking both to reorder their own loves and to contribute to peace, justice, and human flourishing. The Augustine Fellowship aims to continue this rich tradition in the context of Georgetown University, serving the academic community, the church, and the society more broadly.

The Christian Study Center exists to bring together students, faculty, and community members to explore the intellectual and cultural resources of the Christian tradition. Drawing on these resources we engage at the highest levels of scholarship in order to address enduring human questions and respond to challenges created by contemporary culture.

Geneva is a Christian exploration at the University of Iowa. We help Christian students explore the meaning of their faith for their lives and studies to develop in their sense of vocation. We invite others to explore the teachings of Scripture to discover the good news of the Gospel of Jesus Christ and its light for all of life. We do this through student discussion groups, podcasts on reading Scripture, and public lectures on social issues by Christian scholars.

With the informal slogan “Discipleship in Partnership,” the Biblical Studies Center is seeking the most effective, complementary relationship possible with other campus ministries. Accordingly, they are uniquely positioned to contribute in specific ways as an academic presence. They are focused on reaching and serving students at Boise State University with a building that is one block from the stadium. The Biblical Studies Center offers accredited Bible classes (through a partnership with Oklahoma Christian University), which are aligned with the Boise State University semester schedule. They host student lunches, and special lectures. They also offer a Christian Leadership class.

Pascal Study Center exists to provide a place at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign for pursuing deep questions about the Christian faith in relation to learning and vocation. With both humility and hope, Pascal Study Center seeks to engage the university community through academic hospitality and faithful presence. Pascal Study Center is a ministry of Urbana Theological Seminary.

Pascal Study Center pursues its mission and vision through the following priorities: 1) planting trees: sowing the seeds of faithful Christian discipleship across all areas of life and over the whole lifespan; 2) building bridges: creating and strengthening thoughtful partnerships with the University of Illinois as well as area churches and the local community; 3) setting tables: making space for Christians to come together with those of other religions or no religion around the big questions of life.

Alcuin Study Center exists to help students cultivate the fully human life.

ASC offers the space and resources for students from any background to discover and explore the ligaments that hold every aspect of life together—faith & reason, body & mind, science & poetry, work & play, laughter & sorrow, church & the academy, God & man, Christ & culture—in hopes of awakening the imagination to what T. S. Eliot called The Permanent Things—Truth, Beauty, and Goodness—thereby cultivating the flourishing of every human being, each one of which bears the image of God.

The types of programs that Alcuin offers include seminars, short classes, book discussions, panel discussions, and culture-making workshops. The content of these courses includes Christian worldview, Biblical exegesis, cultural analysis, philosophy, theology, history/Church history, the arts, film, politics-really all of life-as seen through the lens of Christianity as reality, not simply religion. Hans Rookmaker’s famous saying is a through line for ASC: “Jesus didn’t come to make us Christian. He came to make us fully human.”

Housed in the historic "Green Pastures" home built in 1887, the C.S. Lewis Study Center in Northfield, Massachusetts serves as a focal point of Christian hospitality, study, reflection, and learned conversation in New England. The Study Center encourages and equips those who desire to thoughtfully and winsomely address issues of faith and culture within their sphere of influence. Special topics address issues of interest to faculty of universities, boarding schools and other educational venues, church and civic leaders, and a variety of professionals who seek to express their Christian faith throughout the full range of disciplines.

The mission of Octet Collaborative is to equip faculty and administrators at MIT to promote human flourishing. We seek to integrate their work as scholars with their lives as human beings by drawing on the resources of the Christian tradition for holistic formation.

Our vision is for a community of scholars at MIT equipped to address the deeply human aspects integral to their sophisticated and technical work. The center promotes whole-life formation for faculty and administrators at MIT, because excellent and ethical scholarship depends not only on what is being studied but on how faculty and staff live out their vocation. Our goal is to serve scholars by bringing the resources of the Christian tradition directly into their work: pursuing patterns of community, education and mentorship, and fostering open and cross-disciplinary dialogue and scholarship in service to the challenges of the modern world. The role of the center is to facilitate the integration of the work and lives of MIT scholars, who will themselves play the central role in our mission.

The Joseph & Alice McKeen Study Center exists to advance the witness of the Kingdom of God in College Campus Ministry in Maine, and to collaborate with similar study centers existing on other colleges and universities nationwide. The Study Center provides a residential study opportunity for students, faculty and community members to grow in their understanding of the biblical claims of the Christian Gospel.

Anselm House is a center for Christian studies that exists to help students and faculty at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) connect Christian faith & knowledge with all of life. We offer programs oriented around the integration of faith and vocation (our Fellows programs), administer a Christian faculty network for UMN professors, and host conversations, lectures, and courses open to the general public. For more than forty years, we have been equipping the next generation of servant leaders for the university, the church, and the world. Anselm House has historic roots in two organizations serving the University of Minnesota: Christian Student Fellowship (founded 1974) and the MacLaurin Institute (founded 1982).

At the Oxford Lodge, we seek to offer a space where students may enter in, form friendships, and invest in a place that can act as a home during their college years. It starts with our space, 100 Depot Street, on the edge of Ole Miss’s campus. Our dream for this space involves all the accessories for student flourishing, academically, spiritually, and artistically: a front porch, stacked libraries, deep couches, and open studio spaces. A house where students can study, drink coffee, talk football, play corn hole, snack, listen to music, procrastinate, and co-create. A house safe enough to take a nap and interesting enough to promote reading, writing, deep thought, prayer, and relationship. A house that combines the valuable traits of a greek house + honors college + library + cafe + camp lodge, in an inclusive and creative environment. A house where Christian students can ask questions, and students open to spiritual things can explore the world from a Christian perspective. A house that Oxford students can call home.

Established as a non-profit corporation in August 2012, the Center for Christianity and Scholarship is an independent education organization interacting particularly with faculty and students at Duke University, with plans to include other universities and colleges in North Carolina’s Research Triangle. The Center explores intersections of Christian thought with the scholarly and academic life of the university.  Drawing upon multiple Christian traditions, it seeks to create and sustain a community of scholars and students interested and engaged in discovering what it means to think as Christians about the workings of the physical world, social structures, history, art, philosophy, and other fields of study.  The Center intends thereby to encourage the intellectual discipleship of Christians, both in the university and in the broader community; to engage in respectful dialogue with those who hold other worldviews and belief systems; to participate in the university’s search for knowledge and understanding; and to contribute to the general welfare of society.

The East Carolina Study Center is a special place at ECU. It exists for students as a center for Christian life and thought, & operates out of a historic home near campus within walking distance of ECU and uptown.

The house is always stocked with free coffee, tea, Wi-Fi, and space to study, eat, meet, play, and gather.

We partner with student organizations, campus ministries, & local churches. The Study Center hosts free meals, seminar discussion groups, lectures, and other resources for students to experience growth in Christ through relationships. Students get to make friends with like-minded, ambitious classmates and upperclassmen that they’ll track alongside for years to come at East Carolina. Our staff and the house dogs are always available to get coffee, play a game of cornhole, or help students navigate university life. The East Carolina Study Center is here to serve and support you and help you grow however possible. We are so excited to welcome you to your home away from home at ECU!

We are a Christian study center, launched in 2015, whose mission is to cultivate Christian life and thought at UNC. Our programming falls into three core areas: theological education, personal and spiritual development, and hospitality and unity. We operate out of a historic home on two acres adjacent to the university, where we welcome students and faculty and a variety of campus ministries and student organizations. Our vision is to offer a Christian educational experience that honors and thrives a secular university.

In 2006, a group of Dartmouth underclassmen founded the Dartmouth Apologia journal to articulate thoughtful Christian perspectives in the academic context and promote respectful dialogue on life’s big questions. Mentored from the beginning by faculty of faith, the group became a college-sponsored organization, grew ecumenically, and multiple times has been voted Dartmouth’s Best Publication. In 2009, students, faculty and alumni founded the Eleazar Wheelock Society to expand the conversation taking place in Apologia’s pages and further the ways the Christian community could serve the College. To gather a larger community of supporters, EWS hosted its first Wheelock Conference in 2010. In the nine years since, the pilot project has flourished into an organization that is supporting the lives of students and cultivating rich conversation and mentorship around integrating faith, reason, vocation and service.

Founded in 2000, Chesterton House is a collaborative effort among many members of the Cornell and Ithaca communities–including students, pastors, professors, and campus ministry workers. Its mission is to facilitate discovery of the intellectual riches of the historic Christian faith, thereby empowering more faithful Christian living. Chesterton House does this by providing residential facilities for young men and women, sponsoring large public lectures by leading Christian scholars, hosting small group discussions on wide-ranging topics, maintaining a resource room of the best Christian scholarship, and providing speakers for fellowship meetings and retreats.

Cornell aspires to be the exemplary comprehensive research university for the 21st century on the basis of our distinctive status as a private university with a formal public mission. Faculty, staff, and students will thrive at Cornell because of its unparalleled combination of quality and breadth; its high standards; its open, collaborative, and innovative culture; the opportunities provided by beautiful, vibrant rural and urban campuses; and programs that extend throughout the state of New York and across the globe.

Beatrice Institute serves all who pursue
the Beautiful, the True, and the Good

Beatrice Institute is an ecumenical learning and research community based in Pittsburgh that serves students, faculty, and the broader public. Named after Dante’s guide in the Paradiso, Beatrice Institute supports advanced inquiry in the Christian intellectual and cultural traditions. Animated by intellectual friendship inside and outside the academy, Beatrice Institute serves all who pursue the Beautiful, the True, and the Good.

In 2001 Mere Christianity Forum began when a small group of students at Furman University (Greenville, SC) met together simply to discuss C.S. Lewis’ famous work Mere Christianity. The thoughtful discussions of theology, philosophy and culture that emerged attracted a diverse group of participants from different backgrounds including Protestants, Catholics, Eastern Orthodox, agnostics, and even a few students from other faith traditions. In 2003 MCF opened up Vista House to host events and lectures, house students, and even provide delectable delights from their organic garden. In 2009 MCF started the Servant Scholars program, an internship that allows students to serve the poverty-focused non-profits of Greenville in the summer. During the academic year MCF offers weekly theological forums on a wide range of topics led by faculty and leaders both inside and outside the Furman community.

Hill House is a Christian study center serving students and faculty at the University of Texas and churches in the Austin area. Since its founding in 1989, the Center’s purpose has been to equip Christians to defend and apply their faith, and to proclaim the gospel on campus and in our culture. Hill House has sought to recover a tradition of Christian living and scholarship that takes both the Bible and contemporary culture seriously. By teaching, providing resources, and offering counseling, Hill House serves the University of Texas, and the surrounding community of Austin.

The Saviourgate Centre is an intellectual home for students in York. We’re a Christian ministry committed to the integration of faith and scholarship—as well as being a growing community of students and scholars working together to think through the deepest questions about life and faith.

Cambridge House Christian Study Center seeks to serve the students, faculty and staff at the College of William and Mary, for the body of Christ in the city of Williamsburg, the Commonwealth of Virginia, and the nations by pursuing faith, intellectual integrity, and spiritual formation in community. The vision of the Cambridge House Study Center is to set a table with the riches of the historic Christian tradition, for the moral, spiritual and intellectual flourishing of the William and Mary community.

The Schaeffer Center for Christian study (formerly known as Cogito) is a nonprofit Christian ministry serving Hampden-Sydney College and Longwood University in Farmville, VA. Our mission is to explore and deepen the connections between Christian faith, academic study, and human flourishing in today’s world. At Cogito, we love to debate everything from the stories of Genesis, the philosophy of Plato, and the theology of Augustine to the novels of John Steinback, just-war theory, and issues in modern biblical hermeneutics. We can’t promise we have all the answers, but we can promise a space to discuss issues of faith, life, and culture openly and honestly. If that sounds appealing, feel free to get in touch—we’d love to talk about how you can become a part of our mission.

In the mid-1970s a group of new believers with intellectual fervor for the study of Christianity rented a house just beyond Grounds at the University of Virginia to host

lectures, fellowship meetings, and other events. As fellowships grew in size and number, the Center for Christian Study grew as well. Year long programs were developed for educating laypeople to think theologically. The Center is now a host to seminary classes, fellowships, a library, and even housing for students in the Elzinga Residential Scholars Program. As the staff and Board look toward the future, they remain focused upon the essentials that brought about the Center’s founding: historic, biblical Christianity; a concern for understanding the juncture of culture and faith; and the desire to spread the gospel through “wise discussion of the Truth.”

The central purpose of the University of Virginia is to enrich the mind by stimulating and sustaining a spirit of free inquiry directed to understanding the nature of the universe and the role of mankind in it. Activities designed to quicken, discipline, and enlarge the intellectual and creative capacities, as well as the aesthetic and ethical awareness, of the members of the University and to record, preserve, and disseminate the results of intellectual discovery and creative endeavor serve this purpose. In fulfilling it, the University places the highest priority on achieving eminence as a center of higher learning.

Upper House, an initiative of the Stephen & Laurel Brown Foundation, is a center for Christian gathering and learning. We welcome all who long to explore the life of the mind and the questions of the soul. Our desire is for genuine transformation for our campus community and for the world more broadly.

Located in the heart of the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus, Upper House provides 16,500 sq. ft. of multi-experiential space, hospitality, and program expertise. Here, people, faith, values, ideas, and the arts come together to foster spiritual, intellectual, and cultural formation. Upper House also operates Dottie’s Ranch, a retreat center for reflection, team-building, and leadership development purposes, located just outside of Madison.

To fulfill its mission, Upper House works in partnership with university departments, centers, and institutes, as well as churches, student-based ministries, and local and national non-profit organizations and foundations.