WHAT KIND OF COMMUNITY ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

Join the Rice Study Center this spring for a 4‑week reading group exploring Watership Down by Richard Adams alongside Stanley Hauerwas’s classic essay, “A Story‑Formed Community: Reflections on Watership Down.” Together we will ask how a band of vulnerable, courageous rabbits and a provocative Christian ethicist can help us imagine a different kind of life together at Rice—one shaped less by achievement and anxiety and more by friendship, faithfulness, and hope. Hauerwas argues that Christian communities are formed by the stories they tell and embody, not just by the ideas they affirm, and Watership Down offers a vivid picture of a people learning courage, truthfulness, and sacrificial care as they journey toward a new home. This one‑hour weekly conversation (starting the last week of January 2026) is open to all students, whether or not you identify as Christian, and will invite honest questions about meaning, belonging, and what it would take to cultivate a story‑formed community at Rice that is good news for the campus and the world.

MEETS JAN 26TH - FEB 16TH (TBD)

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