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Newsletter & Calendar

The Winter 2010 Newsletter is now available here.
The Winter 2010 Schedule of events is now available here.
**TIME CHANGE** Please note that the Pietism Lecture series, scheduled to be held at Trinity Lutheran Church in Edmonton on January 26, February 2 and February 9, has been changed to 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

 
Chester Ronning's China Mission Digitized
The National Film Board has digitized its film about Chester Ronning, China Mission.  The film may be found at http://www.nfb.ca/film/china_mission_the_chester_ronning_story/
 
Lifelong Relationship with Augustana Becomes a Legacy
Jim and Sonja Hendrickson donate $100,000 to establish a major endowment for the Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life.

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The Chester Ronning Centre for the Study of Religion and Public Life focuses its work on a set of issues and themes that demand our attention whether or not we are religious, a demand that informed many of the founders of Augustana, a demand that daily flashes across every news broadcast and that has finally galvanized the attention of scholars as noted as Stanley Fish. The demand is for a more complex attention to be paid to these issues, an attention that is both inclusive and critical.

 
Photo courtesy of the Noel and Wendy Cassady Collection, CRC.
 

 
Photo courtesy of the Noel and Wendy Cassady Collection, CRC.

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