{"id":92,"date":"2019-10-31T19:16:18","date_gmt":"2019-10-31T19:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2025-08-06T11:57:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T11:57:03","slug":"religion-in-life-lectures","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/events-worship-at-furman\/religion-in-life-lectures\/","title":{"rendered":"Religion in Life Lectures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Spiritual Life\u2019s Religion in Life lectures bring scholars, experts, activists, and professionals from across the country to discuss contemporary issues affecting persons of\u00a0faith, related to religion and spirituality, and from a diversity of perspectives. As a part of The Furman Advantage, the Religion in Life lectures are one way the Office of Spiritual Life\u00a0encourages student self-discovery and self-reflection, connecting where students\u2019 hearts and minds are growing in classes and conversations, with their spiritual selves. Religion in Life\u00a0tackles a diversity of important issues for students and in the larger world, cultivating students\u2019 intellectual growth and self-knowledge, both in service to others and in pursuit of\u00a0wholeness.<\/p>\n<h2>Religion in Life Lectures<\/h2>\n<h2>L.D. Johnson Lecture Series &#8211; What Really Matters?<\/h2>\n<p>Compassion, adventure, education, love. What really matters? That was the question L.D. Johnson encouraged the Furman community to think about during his time as a chaplain. After his death in 1981, we established the L.D. Johnson Lecture Series to honor his memory and continue asking our community to consider who we are and what we\u2019re about. Each semester a Furman professor or alum will give a lecture explaining what really matters. These lectures are open to the local community to attend free of charge.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dr. Shaniece Criss,<\/strong> Thursday, November 13 at 6:30 pm in Daniel Chapel. No RSVP required.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Spring Speaker and Title TBD,<\/strong> Date and Time TBD in Daniel Chapel. No RSVP required.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office of Spiritual Life\u2019s Religion in Life lectures bring scholars, experts, activists, and professionals from across the country to discuss contemporary issues affecting persons of\u00a0faith, related to religion and spirituality, and from a diversity of perspectives. As a part of The Furman Advantage, the Religion in Life lectures are one way the Office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":90,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":702,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/702"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/90"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/spiritual-life\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}