About New College Madison

MISSION STATEMENT

The mission of New College Madison is to stimulate “prophetic inquiry” at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and at other similar institutions around the country. Our aim is to focus on the gap between the “is” and the “ought” in a number of important areas of contemporary life, addressing the question of how we get from one state of being to the other. In addition, New College Madison hopes to bring to the understanding and solution of these problems the theological and experiential resources of the Christian faith and the community in which it exists.

Why is an exercise in “prophetic inquiry” needed? In today’s world, value-free scientific and technical knowledge, which is the fruit of institutions like the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is obviously necessary. But it is becoming increasingly to many observers that the “value-free” university, by itself, is no longer sufficient to help us solve the some of the deepest problems of our society:

The world-wide degradation and destruction of the environment
The breakdown in sexual ethics and the crisis of the family
The corruption and breakdown of democratic politics
The threat of religiously based terrorism around the world and the decline in national security
The continuing persistence of poverty, homelessness, and marginality, in the United States and around the world
Drug, alcohol, food, and sexual addiction

It is our hope that New College Madison can help to stimulate the dialogue between the university, the larger community, and the church on these and other basic issues.

New College Madison 640 Alden Road, Claremont, CA 91711. Email: vmvisick@gmail.com. Phone: 608-628-8924.