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 “Reckless,” written by Craig Lucas, opens the ������Ƶ theater season on Oct. 28. The play follows Rachel, a cheerful suburban housewife, through a bizarre and fantastic journey as she travels across the country, eventually attaining a hard-won maturity.

Directed by Mitchell Thomas, ������Ƶ’s new full-time, tenure-track professor, “Reckless” plays 8 p.m. Oct. 28, 29, 30 and Nov. 4, 5, 6 with an additional 2 p.m. matinee Nov. 6 in Porter Theatre on the ������Ƶ campus.

Yale Professor Miroslav Volf will speak on “Memory, Salvation, and Perdition: Reconciliation and the Ambiguity of Memory” 3:30 p.m. Oct. 14 upstairs in Kerr Student Center on the upper ������Ƶ campus.

The lecture, part of the series on World Christianity and Global Encounters of the 21st Century, is free and open to the public.

The series seeks to draw the attention of students, faculty and interested community members to the global presence of Christianity, particularly in the non-Western world.

������Ƶ Communication Studies Professor Greg Spencer has completed his first novel, writing it from an idea he had filed away twenty years ago.

The annual Fall Choral Concert featuring ������Ƶ’s Choir, Chamber Singers and Vox Lumina Women’s Chorale will be 8 p.m. Oct. 15 at Santa Barbara's First United Methodist Church, 303 E. Anapamu St. (at Garden). A donation will be requested.

The choirs will present “Songs of Hope and Mourning” which will consider lament and the human condition, from passionate grief to unrelenting hope.

A fall faculty concert will be presented by the ������Ƶ music department 8 p.m. Oct. 1 in Deane Chapel on the ������Ƶ campus.
The concert is free and open to the public. A reception follows.

The recital will feature: Steven R. Hodson performing Mendelssohn’s “Songs Without Words” on piano; Celeste Tavera, soprano; Patrick Anderson, on guitar; and Emily Sommermann, performing Martinu’s Madrigal Sonata for Flute, Violin and Piano with friends Linda Holland on flute and Josephine Brummel on piano.

������Ƶ Philosophy Professor Jim Taylor will speak on “Jesus’ Miracles and Christian Belief” at 7 p.m. Sept. 27 in Hieronymus Lounge, ������Ƶ.

Taylor’s talk is the Paul C. Wilt Phi Kappa Phi Lecture for fall semester. Religious studies Professor Bruce Fisk and philosophy Professor Bob Wennberg will respond.

Taylor will discuss why Christians believe that Jesus is God and that he performed miracles by presenting arguments he finds most persuasive.