Call For Papers

2006 NATIONAL FACULTY LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE
The Two Tasks: Redeeming the Soul, Redeeming the Mind

A conference for university professors and graduate students, commemorating Dr. Charles Malik (1906-1987) in the centenary of his birth from June 22-25, 2006 at the Hilton Mark Center Hotel, Alexandria, VA, Washington, D.C. Area.

We invite proposals for 20-minute papers or poster sessions, applying Christian faith to academic issues. Proposals should address an interdisciplinary audience within one of the conference’s 16 academic tracks and apply a biblical worldview to problems either within one’s own discipline or across the disciplines within the academic track. The purpose of this call is to stimulate academic inquiry illuminated by biblical principles and discipleship to Jesus Christ.

Please see the Academic Seminar section at www.TwoTasks.com for the specific call for papers in each of the 16 tracks. The call for papers in every academic track invites consideration of such general questions as:

• What issues of tension or conflict with the Christian faith need to be addressed within the discipline?
• What issues of common ground might be explored as research interests?
• What issues must be more clearly articulated from a Christian perspective?
• What issues implicating the Christian worldview are under-researched?
• How can Christian scholars have a leavening, transforming effect on the thought and practices of the discipline?

Titles with abstracts of 300-400 words should be emailed as a MS Word document attachment to NFLCpapers@clm.org by February 15, 2006. Please include a cover page in the Word document indicating a) your name, b) position, c) institutional affiliation, d) mailing address, e) email address, f) daytime telephone number, g) format preference—paper or poster presentation (although the program committee will make the final determination), and h) the academic track for which you are making your submission.

One-to-three papers in each track will be invited presentations, and the remaining papers will be chosen by faculty peers on the track program committee from submissions to the call for papers. Contributors will be notified of acceptance by April 1, 2006. Oral presentation of 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes of discussion will be made on Friday, June 23 during the academic seminar time.

"If you win the whole world and lose the mind of the world, you will soon discover you have not won the world. Indeed it may turn out that you have actually lost the world. . . . Responsible Christians face two tasks—that of saving the soul and that of saving the mind."— Charles Malik , Two Tasks

Sponsored by Christian Leadership Ministries
The Faculty ministry of Campus Crusade for Christ International
www.TwoTasks.com