"Wherever there has been a revival of Christianity of an enduring kind it has generally found expression in the spontaneous activity of small groups meeting for mutual encouragement, fellowship, and common effort.... How else can a movement come into existence, except by people coming together and sharing their experience and thinking together?" ~ J. H. Oldham

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What We Do

Take advantage of our growing digital library.

We are rapidly building a library of content that will enrich your mind and heart along with monthly emails and more. Join the community of Eighth Day members to gain access to the Digital Library.

Print is alive and well at EDI.

Theologically, against Gnostic tendencies, "When we read physical books, the text is physically mediated in a delightful, infinite variety of ways. The word comes incarnate in ink and paper and covers. ... The incarnate element involved in reading has nearly disappeared, and our nature as composite beings of flesh and spirit - the nature for which Christ took flesh - are left strangely starved. ... We yearn for physicality - its our created nature - and books satisfy. We mark them, they mark us. It's an intricate, beautiful physical/spiritual dance. "The object and the experience they mediate are inseparable." Good books - good words incarnate - are sacramental. Mediators of grace. And consistent with our nature" (Farha, Synaxis 1.1).


Eigth Day Publications


  • Synaxis
  • A Word from the Fathers
  • Eighth Day Catalog of Books and Culture

You're Invited!

Whether you are a local Wichitan or live outside of the US, we have envents for you. For non-locals, we have two national conferences - Eighth Day Symposium and Florovsky-Newman Week - plus the Inklings Oktoberfest with the annual Inklings Lecture. If you live near Wichita, the Feast of St. Patrick is worth a short trip to celebrate the great Enlightener of Ireland. If you are local, we have small groups like the Hall of Men and the Sisters of Sophia who toast their heroes, and reading groups like the Cappadocian Society for pastors.

Speaker Testimonials

"The Eighth Day community is one of many lights that give us hope that faith and learning will not be snuffed out in this ephemeral age of superficiality and ignorance."
Peter Leithart
Theopolis Institute
"Your annual symposiums have become the stuff of legend."
James K. A. Smith
Calvin College

What members are saying.

"I am so grateful for EDI. I really do believe that this is a holy work, anointed by God."
Dr. Matthew Umbarger
Catholic
"[EDI] is a place to join others in dialogue and study in the worthy cause to renewing culture."
Ellen Awe
Protestant
"Thank you for always facilitating the important things in life: community, intellectual challenge, and longing for Christ's presence in the world."
Nick Polenz
Orthodox
If you are feeling down and out and hopeless about our culture, go to Wichita and take part in what they’re doing there... Eighth Day Institute is a non-profit that is one of the worthiest endeavors I can think of, and which always needs support.
- Rod Dreher