Mission & Goals

We live in a culture hungry for meaning and personal identity, yet it lacks the underlying truth that clarifies and sustains life. Our culture desperately needs moral direction. As people awaken to this crisis of our times, some graze the smorgasbord of contemporary spiritualities, while the lives of many others are dominated by economic, rather than spiritual, concerns.

In the midst of this confusion, the ministry of New College Berkeley is clear: To equip people to walk in newness of life with Jesus Christ.

Our mission is to shed the light of the gospel into our spiritually confused culture. NCB serves the whole people of God by maintaining a high-quality program of interdisciplinary and integrative courses, conferences, seminars, lectures, and retreats focused on matters of lay Christian concern.

New College Berkeley addresses :

• The marginalization of faith in the public arena.
  
• The privatization of spirituality and isolation of individual believers.
  
• The separation of what we do and think about on Sunday from our concerns and activities during the other six days of the week.
  
• The poverty of biblical and theological reflection on matters of work, relationships, public policy, economics, the arts and culture, alternative spiritualities, and other areas of ethical concern.
  
• The trivialization of faith, such that religion becomes one of many leisure-time pursuits rather than forming the foundation of our identity, understanding, and engagement with the world.