{"id":5845,"date":"2017-03-29T11:15:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-29T15:15:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/groups.etown.edu\/news\/?p=5845"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:14:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:14:07","slug":"first-tak-honor-socieity-lecture-sponsored-by-e-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/2017\/03\/29\/first-tak-honor-socieity-lecture-sponsored-by-e-town\/","title":{"rendered":"First TAK honor society lecture sponsored by E-town"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Elizabethtown College\u2019s chapter of The National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology, Theta Alpha Kappa (TAK), hosted the campus\u2019 first TAK lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 21. An induction ceremony for nine new TAK members preceded the talk.<\/p>\n

Kelly Knorr, a junior corporate communications major and religious studies minor, was among the students selected to join the College\u2019s TAK chapter last year. \u201cIt was an honor to be recognized for my academic achievements and I thought it would be a great opportunity to be involved in an honors society with like-minded, hardworking individuals,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Students receive TAK nominations for holding a minimum 3.5 GPA in religious studies and a 3.0 GPA overall. They must also be ranked in the upper 35 percent of their class in general scholarship at the time of induction.<\/p>\n

\u201cTAK is an honors society for religious studies so it was a perfect next step for me to continue educating myself in an area that interests me so much,\u201d Knorr said.<\/p>\n

As a member of TAK, as well as the College\u2019s student-run public relations group Jay Firm, Knorr was responsible for helping to plan the first TAK lecture.<\/p>\n

Greg Carey, a professor of New Testament at Lancaster Seminary, spoke to inductees of E-town\u2019s TAK chapter, as well as to religious studies students and faculty and to community members. \u201cLet\u2019s Get Real: The Bible in Public Life\u201d dealt with biblical interpretations of controversies such as slavery, segregation and sexuality.<\/p>\n

Carey began the lecture by describing the split between the North and South during the Civil War and both sides\u2019 use of Bible verses in forming arguments. He then posed a question to attendees: \u201cJust how heavily did the Bible influence all those Christians?\u201d Throughout the lecture, Carey encouraged the audience members to avoid using the Bible as a weapon\u2014instead, he said, we must recognize that \u201cthe role of the Bible in our society is fragmented,\u201d and \u201cit is rarely as much about the Bible as we think it is.\u201d Carey claimed that we must not argue with one another but should \u201cfoster life, grace and dignity.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no reason for you to cover what your convictions are,\u201d Carey said to one student who posed a question about voicing conservative ideals in modern society. The professor emphasized that we must respect the opinions of others even if they differ from our own. Knorr, who explained that studying religion has allowed her to \u201cgain a better understanding of how people communicate and why they do the things they do because of their religious traditions,\u201d appears to mirror Carey\u2019s sentiment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elizabethtown College\u2019s chapter of The National Honor Society for Religious Studies and Theology, Theta Alpha Kappa (TAK), hosted the campus\u2019 first TAK lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 21. An induction ceremony for nine new TAK members preceded the talk. Kelly Knorr, a junior corporate communications major and religious studies minor, was among the students […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":96,"featured_media":5846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[178,775],"tags":[490,1128,209],"class_list":["post-5845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-achievements","category-campus","tag-achievements-2","tag-feature","tag-religious-studies","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/96"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5845"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5869,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5845\/revisions\/5869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.etown.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}