Welcome to Dawg Cogitans, The Thinking Dawg. Here you’ll find Christian undergrads and grad students from the University of Georgia thinking about the ideas and ideologies that we encounter in our lives as students and teachers in a state university. We love campus ministries and college classrooms, and our project here is an attempt to replace neither. Rather, we hope, as small groups of eight to ten students, to live the life of the mind together and as Christians.
We’re not sure what that will look like over the course of this school year or even beyond, but for now, anyone who is a contributor to this blog will be welcome to post questions, thoughts, and other cogitations based on the questions that your classes raise, events on campus, interesting bits in the newspapers, or whatever else comes to mind, and our hope is that as we go about engaging those things in as an informally ecumenical Christian cohort, we might provide further grist for the mill of the mind. Or at least some better metaphors than that one.
We hope to keep this an anarchic project–at the moment we have no plans to write a group constitution or apply for official recognition from UGA or elect presidents or kings or triumvirs. Instead, everyone who becomes a member will write as she or he sees fit, and nobody will be greater, unless she or he becomes lesser. I think I’ve read that somewhere…
We got our start when a Christian TA (that’s Teaching Assistant) and a Chrisitan undergrad started wondering whether we Christians at the University of Georgia could offer a small venue where the life of the mind and the life of the Spirit could intersect a bit. We’re starting small–a monthly lunch-and-book group and a blog–but stand willing to go where this takes us. We welcome all Christian students who would like to join us to send an email to one of our authors.
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