Nurturing Relational Connections Across Boston's Christian Community
God has a province for you to oversee in his kingdom. The Boston Fellows is a nine-month program for young professionals seeking to cultivate the insights and spiritual habits necessary for meaningful vocation within a cohort of peers, spiritual leaders, and professional mentors through the local church. Click here to hear a personal story about […]
Boston Fellows invites you to hear Dr. James Sherley share highlights of a career spanning medicine, science, education, public ethics, and business, all in pursuit of scientific knowledge and its proper application in the world. He will review his approach to science as a professing Christian, the contributions his teams have made to adult tissue stem cell […]
How do I get control of my finances and have reason to feel good about them, for once? Are there biblical principles for investing, saving? What should I put away for the future? What are my godly peers doing? More experienced Christians? What does the Bible say about debt? How do I get out of debt […]
"How do we 'do' education for our common public life?" December 8, 10:00am - 3:00pm, at Park Street Church. Boston Fellows is thrilled to invite you to join the civic discussion, in an open, in-depth conversation led by Prof. Charles L. Glenn. See https://bit.ly/2QkfUr3 for more information and to RSVP.
Is STEM important to the Kingdom of God? Is my work at odds with my Christian calling? Is work part of "the curse"? How can I integrate my spiritual life and my work life? Can I share my faith at work? Will I find joy and relevance in my STEM career? The STEM cohort, by […]
If technology can be used for good or for evil, how is it not neutral? Is technology today qualitatively different from other eras? Are there technologies that thoughtful people should just avoid? How do we do technology without compromising our humanity? What does the examined technological life look like, in practice? Boston Fellows is pleased to host John Dyer, author of From […]
"Good ideas" are as common as easy chairs. Functioning models, that are actually changing individual lives and neighborhoods? Much harder to find. Join us to hear Cynthia Wallace tell about God at work in the Homewood neighborhood of Pittsburgh, and here in Boston. Ordinary people took basic steps and made a difference. You can too. Registration […]
Whatever our creed, we all need healthcare. But today patients and healthcare providers interact in a system that often feels hostile to their concerns about compassionate care, as well as the ultimate ends of life and health. Many sense there is something seriously broken about medicine. The church is mostly silent in discussing healthcare's problems. […]
How can I serve God and neighbor in a career in STEM? About Galileo and all that: what's really happened in the history of faith and science? How do I know my work in STEM has value? What should science and technology try to achieve? In what sense could a competent scientist still call theology "the queen of the sciences"? […]
Join the Boston Fellows for a few steps in learning... How design-thinking can solve problems and humanize our work with compassion and kindness How to engage productively with challenging colleagues and circumstances at work How to practice empathy, as Jesus did, to become more available and vulnerable for those in need at work What it looks like to practice […]
A day-long leadership experience with Richard Kennelly Team Concepts, Inc. and La Vida Center for Outdoor Education and Leadership Leadership is action, something we do. So organizations typically see little change in behavior as a result of classroom teaching on leadership alone. We may learn by listening to leaders share from their experience, it's […]
"It takes a village to raise a child." - African proverb God gives the primary responsibility of raising kids to their parents, but he calls all of us to help. What does the Bible actually say about raising children? What does that look like in the challenges of 21st-century America? How do parents marshal resources to meet those […]
Christianity offers a wealth of images, stories and symbolic structures. This imagery is not only a kind of cultural treasure, but is also a matrix of engagement with reality. We will plunge into the basic narrative of Scripture and how this translates into everything from Christian art, architecture, storytelling and music, all acting together as […]
A debate between Anne Rathbone Bradley and Ron Sider. The American conversation on Economics is more polarized today than any time in our history. Many voices in public life today are calling into question the fundamentals of the system. Young voters, especially, decry its inequalities and blame it for our environmental problems. Boston Fellows will host […]
A discussion now about doing life differently in the future Maybe, just maybe, after all this is behind us, we will not take for granted: hugs, handshakes, high fives, happy hour, huddles, holding hands.... Meanwhile, what if we started thinking now about doing life differently, as if the remote and the virtual never were substitutes for life in one another's physical […]
God has a province for you to oversee in his kingdom. Do you know what it is? Do you have the biblical framework to find out? The practical spiritual disciplines necessary to stay the course when you do? A space to discuss it, peers to walk with you, in discernment? More experienced people to mentor you? […]
Money. It’s in the top three causes of personal stress. In the top three subjects of marital conflict. But also, among the top topics addressed in the Bible. And with stunning promises of God’s benevolence towards us. You can find a sense of peace and control in managing your personal finances, with rock-solid principles, and […]
Headlines change. Questions of race and justice persist. How then should Christians—of any ethnicity—think about them, in order to act rightly? What does the Bible say on these matters? What are the prospects? Where do we go from here? Our speaker will be Dr. Anthony Bradley, Professor of Religious Studies at The King's College in […]
Instead of rom-coms, Hallmark, and broken hearts, for once... What if... … the church honored the biblical call to singleness for the sake of Christ’s kingdom, and didn’t treat singles as “less-than”? … Christians smashed their idols of romance and “marital bliss”? … the Lord redeemed Valentine’s Day for you, as an occasion of devotion […]
Saturday, March 13 | 10:00am - 1:00pm ET Online event ______________________ "In the midst of what is going on now, it is hard, when you sit down at a desk, […]
