The Oregon Extension is an alternative semester program for Christian college students and other honest seekers. Every autumn since 1975, several dozen college students from Christian liberal arts institutions across the country, and a variety of secular and state universities, have taken a step “out of the mainstream” for an unusual semester of vigorous intellectual exploration. They’ve become part of a small community of learners on the banks of an old millpond in the Cascade Mountains of southern Oregon. Here, a faculty of five has created a semester-long adventure in ideas, and a study atmosphere that invites students to pursue the kinds of questions that build up during a college education, but that often don’t get the attention they deserve in the normal college routine. Questions like: What kind of person do I want to be? What do I believe about God, personal faith, the meaning of life? What kinds of relationships do I want shaping my life? What do all these facts and ideas mean, and what kinds of responses to they ask of me?
The Oregon Extension offers a fall semester of accredited college studies for the student who wants a more personal, honest, lively and deeply engaged learning experience in an intentional community setting – the student who does not want to say, on graduation day, “I never took the opportunity to stop and wonder about who I really am and what it is that really matters to me.” ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------VIDEO NOTE: If you have a broadband c...
Learn about the Oregon Extension in this five minute overview. Settle into our mountain hideaway--a renovated logging village in the southern Oregon mountains--for a four-month conversation with five faculty families and a couple dozen fully-committed peers who love to read the books that shape our time, to ask the big questions, to confront the big ideas, to honor both faith and doubt as passionately and respectfully as you do.
