Please join us in Celebrating our 10-Year Anniversary!

It’s hard to believe it’s been ten years!

On September 26-27, 2025, we will gather together to celebrate what God has done in Chapel Hill over the past 10 years, and to look ahead at the decades to come. We'll celebrate through music, hear talks from invited speakers, and spend time dreaming together about the future of Study Centers and higher education. There will be breakout group discussions, shared fellowship over meals, and opportunities to connect with alumni and friends. You can RSVP for the weekend and learn more about the schedule below.

Registration for alumni is $25 to cover food and expenses for students and alums for the weekend.

Friday

5:00 pm - Check-in Opens

• Social hour featuring a catered dinner & live music

7:00 pm - Opening Plenary about the Study Center’s history and Keynote from Dr. Molly Worthen

Saturday

9:00 am - Morning Prayer & Introduction

9:30 am - Teaching

10:00 am - Student Panel on Community

10:30 am - Coffee Hour

11:00 am - Vocational Reflections

11:30 am - Dreaming About the Future

• Hear from Madison about past moments at the Study Center that exemplify our mission and inform our future trajectory. 

11:45 am - Bites & Insights

• A strolling lunch with heavy hors d'oeuvres and stations set up throughout the Study Center for group conversations and theological enrichment.

1:00 pm - Close 

Speaker Bio

Dr. Molly Worthen is an associate professor of history at UNC and a freelance journalist. She received her BA and PhD from Yale University. Her research focuses on North American religious and intellectual history, and her most recent book, Spellbound: How Charisma Shaped American History from the Puritans to Donald Trump, is a history of charisma as both a religious and political concept over the past 400 years in America. She teaches courses in North American religious and intellectual history, global Christianity and the history of politics.

Worthen writes about religion, politics and higher education for the New York Times and has also contributed to the New Yorker, Slate, the American Prospect, Foreign Policy and other publications. She has been involved in UNC’s Program for Public Discourse since 2019.