Consortium of Christian Study Centers

Did you know that Christian Study Centers have a combined square footage of over 188,000?

Learn more interesting facts about study centers: https://cscmovement.org/infographic/

Check out this month's Periscope to learn about two online Consortium events happening in June (one of them is today!), plus the keynote speakers for this year's annual meeting and some very interesting recommendations you won't want to miss.https://cscmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/June-2026-Periscope.pdf

The academic year is coming to an end and TRH has posted the final essay in their fantastic series on the role of human educators in the age of artificial intelligence. In this piece, Ethan Schrum (associate professor of history at Azusa Pacific University) considers what we might glean from C.S. Lewis's reflections on education and being human as we face the challenges posed to us by AI. You can read it at the link below, where you can also listen to TRH's final "Audio Edition" – a conversation between Ethan and the author of March's essay, Adam Laats. Enjoy!

Will Artificial Intelligence Abolish Humanity? By: Ethan Schrum

Take a look at the article that Christianity Today recently published about the Christian Study Center movement! (If you're having difficulty accessing it online, sign up for Periscope at the bottom of our webpage and you'll receive a PDF of this article in our next newsletter.)

Desperately Seeking Alternatives to Arrogance - Christianity Today The Trump administration’s critique of elite universities is worthwhile, but government control is problematic. Good news: Christian study centers are multiplying at major universities.

The academic year is wrapping up but there is plenty going on in study center land this summer to look forward to! Take a look at the May Periscope for interesting articles, conferences, and online events related to the CSC movement.https://cscmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/May-2026-Periscope.pdf

Check out this article by the Consortium's executive director recently published by "The Buechner Review." Karl's article, "Sacramentalism in the City," explores the ways in which American writer and theologian Frederick Buechner offers us a "transformation of vision" that encourages us to see beauty and sacramentality not only in nature, but also in the midst of urban environments and modern technology.

— April '26 — Frederick Buechner In 1855, an artist and writer based in New York embarked on a voyage up the Hudson River to the Adirondack Mountains. ‘The comfort and quiet of this mode of conveyance is beyond all that I have hitherto experienced traveling by water. There is neither the smoke nor clatter of steamers.’ In the w...

The seventh essay in TRH's series on the role of human educators in the age of AI uses a case study from history to help us understand the present. Click below to read what Adam Laats (SUNY Distinguished Professor of Education and History at Binghamton University) thinks the failure of the Lancastrian system 200 years ago can teach us about technology and education today.

This “New Era in Education:” AI and America’s First Technofail By: Adam Laats

The April newsletter includes a welcome to our new Membership Director, a save-the-date for the The Faculty Theological Collaborative this summer, and an invitation to an online CCSC presentation on planned and estate giving co-hosted by The Focus Group.https://cscmovement.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/April-2026-Periscope.pdf

Happy Easter from the Consortium of Christian Study Centers!

(Painting: "Why seek ye the living among the dead?" by John Stanhope)

In the latest TRH essay, our very own Nathan Barczi (Senior Theologian of the Octet Collaborative at MIT) provides an insightful and hopeful perspective on AI. You can read it at the link below, where you can also listen to TRH's newly posted "Audio Edition" conversation between Nathan and author of January's essay, Paul Gestwicki.

The Role of Human Educators is Love By: Nathan Barczi