Pepperdine to Launch Heart for Religion and the Widespread Good on April 1:
The March 10 version of the President’s Speaker Sequence ended with a shock announcement — the College will accomplice with Baylor professor Byron Johnson [right] to start a Heart for Religion and the Widespread Good starting April 1.
President Jim Gash invited Johnson to talk as part of his sequence on the subject of religion, human flourishing and the frequent good. Provost Jay Brewster shared the middle’s information following Johnson’s dialogue.
“We anticipate sturdy societal influence that can emerge from the Heart for Religion and the Widespread Good,” Brewster mentioned through the occasion. “I believe good issues will come from this middle that can have tangible impacts on our tradition and our society and strengthen the scholarly work of Pepperdine.”
Johnson is a professor of Social Sciences at Baylor College, the founding director of the Baylor Institute for Research of Faith and director of the Program on Prosocial Conduct, amongst different titles.
“I’ve had a fairly lengthy profession in finding out religion based mostly initiatives, and particularly with a view to fixing a few of society’s most urgent social issues,” Johnson mentioned in a Graphic unique. “And that’s the type of work that we need to do right here at Pepperdine, you recognize, how can we assist society? How can we assist individuals to flourish?”
The middle, regardless of Johnson’s connections to Baylor, might be a Pepperdine fixture and join the Caruso Faculty of Regulation, the Faculty of Public Coverage and Seaver.
“Pepperdine, with its regulation faculty, and its clinic — [the Hugh and Hazel Darling Foundation Religious] Liberty Clinic — and the Faculty of Public Coverage, these are all parts that make it a compelling place to do one thing like this,” Johnson mentioned. …
The Heart’s first mission will relate to the Mississippi State Penitentiary, also called the Parchman Farm, in Sunflower County, Miss. … The second mission will consider seminaries in jail and their effectiveness
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