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Land and food are matters of justice. This is an interesting (and radical - in multiple senses of that word) example of restorative justice. http://www.yesmagazine.org/peace-justice/radical-farmers-use-fresh-food-fight-racial-injustice-black-lives-matter. (Brought to our attention by Jess Weeden - ACU Honors Alum and Paul Quinn Farmer.)

Radical Farmers Use Fresh Food to Fight Racial Injustice and the New Jim Crow If we are to create a society that values black life, we cannot ignore the role of food and land.

http://blogs.acu.edu/honorscollege/2014/08/05/a-risky-kind-of-faith/

A Risky Kind of Faith | The Honors College Somewhere between the hot, sticky humidity, the bugs that invade your room, the floods in the kitchen, and the constant stream of rice and noodles: You learn to fall in love with Malaysia. Its happened…I think it snuck up on me a while ago, but I’m just now recognizing it for what it is. This cultu…

Please take a listen (and look) at this presentation by Honors Students Landa Dowdy and Courtney Tee at this year's Christian Scholar's Conference.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWqbEwYNL9k

Christian Scholars Conference 2014 ACU Honors students, Landa Dowdy and Courtney Tee present at the Christian Scholars Conference in Nashville. What is the purpose of Christian Higher Education?

Jenny Dennis writes her story - The Point of College. http://theviewfromthesquare.com/2014/05/16/jennys-story/

Jenny's Story A reflection from one of our ACU@CitySquare students: Sometimes I question how much of an impact living in Dallas for the past year has had on me. Every once in a while, however, I get a reality ch...

Our latest Guild Members! You will be delighted to welcome these new ACU Honors Grads! 16255303@N00/sets/72157644608492785/" rel="ugc" target="_blank">https://www.flickr.com/photos/16255303@N00/sets/72157644608492785/

Honors Graduation 2014 Sets let you organize your photos on Flickr. Explore the 63 photos in this set.

ACU Honors Alum (Guild Member) and Fulbright Scholar, Wiepie Rojas is in Malaysia to teach English through her skills in agriculture. She asks for your prayers as her adventure begins!

Tune in to Dallas-based NBC 5 on Saturday, October 26, at 12:30 p.m. for the next episode of 5 Talk Street with Mark Hayes. Representatives from Abilene Christian University discuss their partnership with CitySquare that's providing ACU students with a transformative experience in the Justice and Urban Studies Program. For more information about CitySquare, visit www.citysquare.org.

CitySquare | Fighting poverty in the heart of Dallas The Siburt Institute for Church Ministry, under the leadership of Dr. Royce Money, has partnered with the Duncum Center for Conflict Resolution and CitySquare [...]

Your friends in ACU Honors would like you to know about this event!

http://www.cvent.com/events/when-conflict-attacks-your-church-how-leaders-respond/event-summary-851dc80226fe4d0a9cfbc0649c4282b1.aspx

When Conflict Attacks Your Church: How Leaders Respond Church leaders are no strangers to conflict. Churches bring people together. And when brought together things aren't always neat and proper. In this one day seminar, Joey Cope, executive director of the Duncum Center for Conflict Resolution at Abilene Christian University, guides participants to an…

Were you at ACU for the TOMS Shoes Honors Event? Can you help us tag this photo?

Charlie Munger says “It’s not a competency if you don’t know the edge of it.”

If you are in Dallas, we invite you to drop by! The ACU at CitySquare Site Coordinator is Kelsey Evans. http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/news/2013/07/29/citysquare-partners-with-acu-to-tackle.html?ana=twtc

CitySquare partners with ACU to tackle poverty in Dallas - Dallas Business Journal Partnership results in a satellite campus for Abilene Christian University, which is sending students to Dallas to study issues related to *poverty in the city.

Have you seen this fun and elegant video by ACU Honors student Hilary Commer?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iwebauiZDA

How To Read a Book Did you find an odd box with pieces of paper inside? It might be a book! Some of them still have real pages---and I'll show you just how to read one. How-To ...