The Comparison Project

This year marks the ninth consecutive year of our interfaith youth leadership camp. From July 9-13, youth campers of various religious traditions will be learning about the religions of the world and visiting seven different religious communities in the metro area. Also, they will each be writing, recording, and producing a digital-story about an impactful personal faith- or meaning-experience. These stories will be screened for the public on Sunday, July 13 at 3:30 pm in Meredith Hall 101 on Drake’s campus. Free and open to the public!

To watch digital stories from the last eight camps, visit here: https://comparisonproject.wp.drake.edu/camp-archive/.

On Thursday, September 25, at 6:00 pm in the Harkin Institute (2800 University Ave), Dr. Devin Stahl, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Religion at Baylor University, will lecture on “The Protestant Work Ethics, Eugenics, and Quality of Life Measures.” 

For those wishing to attend the lecture virtually, please sign on here at least five minutes in advance: https://drake-edu.zoom.us/j/81656501933.

Dr. Stahl’s lecture will explore how Protestant values of productivity merged with medical science in the early twentieth century to produce the American eugenics movement. Today, quality of life measurements in medicine reproduce this logic to the detriment of people with disabilities.

On Saturday, September 27, 2025, we celebrate the grand opening of the Es-Selam mosque in Granger (at 17630 Bosniak Lane). More information when available!

On Thursday, October 23 at 6:00 pm in the Harkin Institute (2800 University Ave), Dr. Herbert Moyo, Associate Professor of Theology at University of KwaZulu-Natal, will lecture on “The Protestant Work Ethics, Eugenics, and Quality of Life Measures.” 

For those wishing to attend the lecture virtually, please sign on here at least five minutes in advance: https://drake-edu.zoom.us/j/82725101694

Dr. Moyo’s lecture will look at understandings, treatments, and experiences of disability among the Nguni people of southern Africa.