Pascal's Coffee at the Christian Study Center

Welcome to a new semester at the Christian Study Center! We have a full schedule of content ahead of us and are so excited about it. Save this flyer to keep track of all the important dates coming up. (:

Tomorrow night, Tuesday, April 12th, Dr. Horner will be delivering his final lecture as our director. The lecture, which take the book of Ecclesiastes as its subject, will begin at 7:30 p.m.

The lecture will be preceded by a reception in honor of Dr. Horner that will start at 6:00 p.m. with hors d'oeuvre and drinks provided. We hope you are able to attend both the reception and the lecture, but feel free to drop in for the reception even if you are not able to stay for the lecture.

It truly is a beautiful (rainy) day at Pascals 🥲

It's been a while since our last update but we have great news! We are currently 75% fundraised for our bar remodel this summer. 🥳

If all goes well, we will be closing the coffee shop for the summer A semester (May and half of June) to refinish the floors and completely remodel our coffee bar.

We are of course still hoping to raise the remaining $25,000 by the end of renovations - so if you are planning to donate please check out the link below & keep an eye out for upcoming fundraising efforts ((:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GBS5NY72M9KVC

Join us for a lecture this Tuesday presented by our director, Dr. Richard Horner. This is one of his last two lectures before his retirement this summer - centered around his class "Reading the Gospels," which has been taught at the CSC over the past twenty years.

Parking is available on site and at First Lutheran, located at 1801 NW 5th Ave. If you park at the church, please reach out to the study center via email ([email protected]) for the parking permit.

Big news!

Our Pascal's Barista Fellow application is officially live. Applications will be open until midnight on April 8th. Read more about what it means to be a Barista Fellow when you fill out the form bellow!

https://forms.gle/6zdVWtt1AWrP2gnx5

Dr. Scott Hawley will be visiting the CSC this Thursday and will be giving an evening lecture at 7:30. All are welcome! More information below.

Our visit with Dr. Russel Lackey will be rescheduled for next week!

We will be hosting a public lecture Monday evening at 7:30 pm and a lunchtime lecture Tuesday at 11:45 am.

Join us next Tuesday at 7:30 pm for a public lecture at the Christian Study Center!

Director's Class begins tomorrow!

Wednesdays
11:45am-12:30pm

It's that time of year again.

The Christian Study Center calendar is here!

Check out our Semester at a Glance for upcoming programs. We hope to see you next Tuesday, January 25th at our Open House event. (:

how we are feelin about the beginning of the semester and NEW SHIRTS🥳

shirts will be going on sale next week! All profit from merchandise this semester will go directly to our Raise the Bar fundraiser.

We are half way to our goal of the $100,000 required to rebuild our coffee bar, refinish the floors, and replace the roof of our building. Thank you for all the support we have received so far!

Our goal is to raise the remaining $50,000 by the beginning of construction in May!

We are open for regular hours this week!

8am-5pm

Thank you for being patient with us as we navigate this time. Please continue to watch out social media for updates these next few weeks!

Pascals Customers,

We will be closed until January 10 as we await negative Covid test results from all our staff. Thanks for your understanding as we keep our staff and customers safe!

Pascal’s will be closing for the break starting tomorrow!

We will be closed 12/16-1/4.

Wishing everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year🥳

If we don’t see you today, we’ll see you in 2022!

another Thursday, another throwback post 🥳

Over the past few decades, Pascal’s has been “growing in our knowledge of the coffee world, tweaking our brewing parameters, and experimenting with brewing methods so that we can provide our community with coffees that have been cultivated with the greatest care.”

Our next step towards providing quality coffee for our neighbors is to renovate our coffee bar - a project we are continuing to work towards today.

If you are interested in helping us reach our goals, please check out the link below!

tinyurl.com/donate-bar-remodel

2021
Juliana, barista

2007
Nick, barista

20 years later , Pascals Coffeehouse and the Christian Study Center still stand, serving our neighborhood & loving our craft (from coffee to inquiry).

Throwback Thursday is back!
Every Thursday your purchase at Pascal’s Coffeehouse will go towards our Raise the Bar campaign to help us remodel our well-loved coffee bar, replace the roof of our building, and refinish the wood floors.

We welcome any and all additional gifts to help us “Raise the Bar” at the link below!

2021
Pascal’s Coffeehouse at the Christian Study Center

2002
Christian Study Center of Gainesville (before Pascals)

tinyurl.com/donate-bar-remodel

Redeeming Social Media: Christian Reflections on Using (and Building) Social Media More Wisely

Registration is live! (Link in Bio)

On December 2, join the Octet Collaborative for a timely conversation:

For all the promise of social media, search, and internet commerce, concerns that these firms are causing more damage than benefit seem to be gathering steam. What wisdom can Christians offer in this situation? What does it look like to use social media and other digital technologies well? What wisdom can the Christian faith provide for those who are building them?

Join the Octet Collaborative for this virtual conversation on this crucial topic with an expert panel of theorists and practitioners:

Felicia Wu Song, Sociologist, Westmont College, and author of Restless Devices: Recovering Personhood, Presence, and Place in the Digital Age

Michael Sacasas, Associate Director of the Christian Study Center of Gainesville, Fla., and writer of The Convivial Society, a regular newsletter on technology and society

Nick Kim, Technical Program Manager, YouTube, and a member of the Google Christian Steering Committee

Thanksgiving Week Hours🦃🍂

Monday (11/22): 8-5pm
Tuesday (11/23): 8-3pm
Wednesday-Saturday: closed

We will reopen Monday (11/29)

barista family stair picture?? we’re all about it.

Throwback Thursday is back and so is our “Raise the Bar” giving day! Today all profit from the shop will go directly towards our bar remodel fundraiser.

Quick update: We are 10% of the way to our fundraising goal!! We are so so thankful for the gifts we have received already❤️ Looking forward to making this place shine next May☺️

2021
Pascals Baristas

2013
Pascals Baristas

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GBS5NY72M9KVC

Sean Hill (Pascal's barista, 2008-2010) shares about his experience with Pascal's and the CSC. Consider donating to our "Raise the Bar" campaign as we seek to care for our building into the future! And just in case you are wondering - Sean married Megan, also a Pascal's barista, circa 2009!
https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GBS5NY72M9KVC&fbclid=IwAR3Pjdw3HKxX7E6DNSW2KlAdPgczla2PfVlVgg8oAdeAK2AB4yMprYfrn08

"Arriving at college, we usually have plenty of ideas about how Christians should live our commission, but it can be hard to find examples to follow. Seeing Pascal’s minister to the spiritual, social, intellectual, and physical (caffeine) needs of its neighbors had a profound effect on the way I think about interacting with my own communities. As they say, come for the Cubano, stay for the discussion."

Throwback Thursday!!

We have another throwback shot to share with you all this Thursday. Todays throwback pic features Laurie Goddard, our current manager. This is actually Laurie’s return as manager! She was also manager in 2010, we are so so glad to have her back. (:

Reminder that on Thursdays when you buy coffee at Pascals all proceeds will go towards our “Raise the Bar” campaign to remodel our coffee bar.

If you would like to donate any additional amount, you can check out the link below.(:

2010
Laurie Goddard, manager

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GBS5NY72M9KVC

Throwback Thursdays!

Pascal’s and the CSC have been around since 2001 which means this building is filled with 20 years of history- and our coffee bar has been a central piece of it all.

Stay tuned every Thursday as our baristas rein-act a throwback Pascal’a picture in honor of our “Raise the Bar” campaign.

Every Thursday your purchase at Pascals will go directly to the bar remodel fund, so come grab a drink and join us as we reminisce on all that this place has meant to us and look forward to all that it will soon become. (:

2021
Lauren Hooks, barista

2005
Hannah (Snyder) O’Malley , barista

Help us “Raise the Bar!”

We are officially launching our bar remodel campaign this week at Pascals!

Pascal’s Coffeehouse is an initiative of the Christian Study Center. As a non-profit, we do our best to make ends meet and to take care of the space we have but it has come to a point that our coffee bar is in desperate need of a renovation. We are launching a bar remodel campaign to raise the $100,000 required to build a new bar, renovate the floors, and replace the roof of our building.

There are a couple ways to help, with varying levels of commitment.

1) I’d love to give a gift of $250+ and receive a Pascal’s mug with the new logo!

2) I’d love to give a gift of $500+ and receive a Pascal’s mug AND the only for donors t-shirt!

3) I’m excited to buy the newest shop t-shirt and/or tote bag knowing that all the proceeds go to the bar remodel.

4) I’ll be sure to come in on Thursdays, when all of the proceeds from my drink order that day go to the bar remodel.

Check out this link to donate!

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GBS5NY72M9KVC

Each semester at the CSC we offer a Directors Class for undergraduate and graduate students. Beginning this Wednesday, September 15th at 11:45 am, Associate Director Mike Sacasas will be teaching "Recovering the Body: An exploration of the centrality of the body to the human experience."

What does it mean to affirm the fundamental goodness of our bodies as a work of Gods creation? What difference does this affirmation make to how we think about human flourishing? What happens when our body is no longer the center of our experience, a situation often enabled by electronic and digital technologies?

Explore these questions and more with us tomorrow! We will be meeting at 11:45-12:35pm in the classroom at Pascals. Lunch will be provided!

Join us next Tuesday at 6:30 pm for our semester Kick-Off event!

There will be light refreshments, an orientation for our fall programming, and a talk given by our Executive Director, Dr. Richard Horner.

Come and celebrate the start of a new semester with us & see what the Study Center has to offer!

We are now just a week away from the start of our new semester of programs- check out our Semester at a Glance for a glimpse at what is going on at the Study Center this Fall!

Take particular note of the Evening Open House event happening next Tuesday. There will be refreshments, an overview of the semester, and a talk given by our Director, Richard Horner. We are excited to welcome you all into our building once again and hope to see you soon!

Pascal’s Coffeehouse at the Christian Study Center. What is the Christian Study Center?

“The Christian Study Center brings together students, faculty, and community members to explore the intellectual and cultural resources of the Christian tradition. Drawing on these resources we engage at the highest levels of scholarship in order to address enduring human questions and respond to challenges created by contemporary culture.” - CSC purpose statement

Pascal’s and the CSC share the same roof and the same vision. In all that we do, we hope to promote human flourishing and serve the common good. We hope this building can be your home, whether it is your daily study spot or the place where you think with us about challenges created by contemporary culture.

Each semester we offer classes, reading groups, and seminars—— so keep an eye out for our “Semester at a Glance”! This will detail our upcoming programs and events - including some exciting guest lecturers. (: and maybe a Christmas concert?? Stay tuned.

Pascal's Coffee at the Christian Study Center updated their business hours.