Saunders Center for Joy and Human Flourishing

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The mission of the Saunders Center is to embrace joy, foster spaces of rest and renewal, and promote the essential elements of a good and flourishing life for students at ACU and beyond. The Mission of the Saunders Center for Joy and Human Flourishing at ACU is to:

(1) Foster interdisciplinary research on joy, well-being, and human flourishing,
(2) Equip the ACU and broader community with strate

gies for enhancing quality of life,
(3) Engage students, faculty, and the broader ACU community in meaningful dialogue about what constitutes a good life,
(4) Integrate faith perspectives with contemporary insights from psychology, philosophy, social sciences, and the arts.

08/01/2026

Excited to take another group of ACU students to Ireland next May for a Study Abroad opportunity with the Saunders Center for Joy and Human Flourishing! Check out this cool promo video that Edie Frederick created and please send some students our way!! 🇮🇪

Eighteen months of fundraising, six months of construction, and we are nearing the finish line building the (physical) S...
07/31/2026

Eighteen months of fundraising, six months of construction, and we are nearing the finish line building the (physical) Saunders Center for Joy and Human Flourishing at ACU. All that’s left now is an inspection and moving in some really cool furniture, including three nap pods from Restworks. We are aiming to have our grand opening in late September, and I couldn’t be more excited about this unplugged, screen-free space on campus for students to disconnect from the outside world and reconnect with themselves, with their Creator, and with each other. 💖🌟

We are excited to host a public lecture at Abilene Christian University, featuring Dr. Miroslav Volf on March 16! Dr. Vo...
02/24/2026

We are excited to host a public lecture at Abilene Christian University, featuring Dr. Miroslav Volf on March 16! Dr. Volf is the author of Exclusion and Embrace, Life Worth Living: A Guide to What Matters Most, and most recently, The Cost of Ambition, which won Christianity Today’s award for Best Book of 2025-26 in the Popular Theology category. Please register by going to this link:

The Saunders Center for Joy and Human Flourishing welcomes Dr. Miroslav Volf, acclaimed author and founding director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture, to ACU’s campus. On Monday, March 16, at 6 p.m., we will host a public reception with heavy hors d’oeuvres in the lobby of the Williams P...

If you're in the vicinity of Abilene Christian University on Monday, March 16, make plans to hear Dr. Miroslav Volf, Hen...
01/30/2026

If you're in the vicinity of Abilene Christian University on Monday, March 16, make plans to hear Dr. Miroslav Volf, Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology and Founding Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. He will be speaking in morning Chapel at 11:00 a.m. on his latest book, The Cost of Ambition. Then at 6:00 p.m. the Saunders Center for Joy and Human Flourishing will host a public reception for Dr. Volf, followed by a lecture at 7:00 p.m. in the Williams Performing Arts Center's Fulks Theatre. His award winning books will be on sale during the event, followed by a book signing afterwards. You may register for the event below:

https://alumniassociation.acu.edu/s/1565/16/interior.aspx?sid=1565&gid=1&pgid=4913

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760 Library Court
Abilene, TX
79699

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