Chi Alpha Campus Ministries - Cultural Mentions

Cultural Mentions

• Kris Allen, the 2009 American Idol winner, was a member of Chi Alpha when he was a student at University of Central Arkansas in Conway, Arkansas. He led worship at the group's weekly meeting, The Well, a fact which was mentioned a few times on the show.

• The chapters at Georgetown University and the University of New Hampshire were highlighted in a 2003 New York Times article "Of Bart and Homer, and the Many Ways of Faith" - an article about their use of the Simpsons as a Bible study tool, and in 1986 The New York Times mentioned the chapter at Columbia University as representative of a trend of growing Christian fellowships on campuses in the northeastern United States.

• Annie Dillard wrote a widely-reprinted essay, "Singing with the Fundamentalists", about her experiences singing with a group of students from the Chi Alpha chapter at Western Washington University (a chapter which operates under the local name of Campus Christian Fellowship).