Center for Religion and Culture
Flagler College's Center for Religion and Culture creates scholarship, community outreach, and student learning and study abroad opportunities.
Our focus areas are: research, critical reflection and scholarship, outreach and service to communities of practice, and courses and study abroad opportunities for Flagler students. You can find out more below.
About Us
About Us
We promote dialogue and the study of religion on campus and among Northeast Florida residents.
Flagler College has a unique advantage in exploring religious beliefs and practices. That's because we have history.
You can see Henry Flagler's respect for religion, culture, and civic duty in many places in St. Augustine, in the houses of worship he built. But long before Flagler, the native people here—the Timucua—established a rich religious culture that deserves to be discovered. So do the religious cultures of the Africans and Europeans who lived here during the colonial times.
Built on the rich foundation of this history, Flagler College is committed to shaping the future of dialogue, practices that shape our communities, and cultivating unique opportunities for students to chart their own paths forward.
Our Efforts
Our Efforts
Some of the Center's offerings and initiatives include:
- USDIN Judeo-Christian Lecture Series
- Flagler College Youth Ministry Forum
- The Missing Voices Project
- Fostering Congregations Initiative
- The Playground: Reimagining Ancient Christian Practices for Today
- Academic Conferences, including the Academy of American Franciscan History and the Institute on Theology and Disability
Our Courses
Our Courses
We also offer creative and compelling FlagSHIP and Core Classes such as:
- A Life Well Lived
- A Walk on the Wind: A Journey to Self
- From Adam to the Apocalypse
Flagler College also offers:
- The Philosophy and Religion major/minor
- Religion courses
- Youth Ministry minor
- Youth Ministry courses
Classes, Programs, and Faculty Research
Classes, Programs, and Faculty Research
Dr. Jim Rowell teaches about religion and wrote his dissertation on Mohandas Gandhi and nonviolence a year after al-Qaeda attacked the Pentagon and the World Trade Center.
Our Events
Learn more about Center for Religion and Culture events below.
Learn more about the Cecile & Gene Usdin Judeo-Christian Lecture Series speakers.
Find out who our 2024 speakers are, how to register, and more.
Get active with our Philosophy and Religion Club. Find out all the details on Saints Connect.
Center for Religion and Culture News
Center for Religion and Culture News
- Read: Flagler launches Center for Religion and Culture (2024)
- Read: Happy Brew Cafe brews 'poss-abilities' thanks to Flagler's Missing Voices Project (2023)
- Read: Reverse-engineering happiness: Core course challenges students to re-evaluate their building blocks for a good life (2023)
- Read: Flagler College presents 'Landscapes and Language, ' a conference on the Franciscan Order (2023)
- Read: Interfaith Center to Celebrate Religious Diversity, Spiritual Development (2021)
Meet the Director
Early Visions of Florida
Early Visions of Florida
Learn about how the native Timucuan people helped spread Christianity with Flagler professor Dr. Timothy Johnson.