Well said ladies. While I am not a member of AX from that particular chapter I'd just like to offer my moral support.

Our school has a local Christian fraternity called Lambda Sigma Phi. They have accomplished a lot in the past couple of years. Go to http://www.lambdasigmaphi.com to find out more about them.

I wish you good luck!! Thats awesome you're doing well this year!


LITB!

HM!
 

Well, if anyone remembers Historys of GLOS, some were started with Religious or Ethnic back gounds such as AEP, SAM, AGRO, Triangle Etal. But, have things not changed over the years?

What is to say that over the EONS of GreekDom that this will not happen to each of the "New" Groups of Greek Organizatins.:confused:

What an Organization is, it is composed of People! What do People want to do? Associate with people not Just Like Them or beleifs, but the same Nature of Suzie or Tom is Nice, i think I want to be with them. Then evolves a change of what the total mixture is. Why? Well, maybe it is a change in the Mores" of what the individual Chapter feels is necessary to keep growing or Die!

History is Old, but it keeps repeating itself!:)

Will Multi Culture Groups Be The Wave of the Future or is it the fact that other GLOS have come to encompuss the person first!?

AX/SAO at Elon
 

As we are all in this greek boat together, one would hope that a forum like this would be used to facilitate understanding and unity among greeks in this country. Having said that, please make sure you really know what you are talking about before you make a comment about another organization. I am a member of both AX at Elon and Sigma Alpha Omega, the Christian sorority. I want to thank those of my sisters who have spoken up and supported both of these organizations. Alpha Chi Omega is everything my sisters have said it is and more. Sigma Alpha Omega is a local Christian sorority and on Elon's campus you may belong to SAO and a NPC org. However, it is not so with the other five chapters of this thriving new organization. The Alpha chapter of SAO is actively pursuing national recognition. Please feel free to visit the gamma chapter's website to get the right information, straight from the sisters. http://www.elon.edu/org/sao

i know that ohio northern university has a christian sorority and frat, i forget what they are but one of the guys i worked with when i was doing my internship a couple summers ago at the tv station was in it and his gf was in the sorority.

University of Maryland has 2 Christian greek orgs--Alpha Nu Omega Sorority and Alpha Nu Omega Fraternity (they are brother and sister orgs, hence the same greek letters in their names). They seem to have some of the same traditions as the BGLOs, and their membership on campus when I was there was mostly Black. From what I have seen, they have maintained good numbers ever since they arrived on campus.

Alpha Nu Omega is a Christian Sorority at my school.

Alpha Gamma Omega and Alpha Delta Chi both have chapters and houses at SDSU. AGO is asked to participate in sorority philanthropy.

I know some of the members of ANQ in Maryland.

No one has posted to this thread in a long time, but I wanted to bump it with some exciting news. This summer Sigma Alpha Omega offically became Sigma Alpha Omega, Incorporated. We now have a national board, trustees, conventions and are continually pursuing expansion. We have seven chapters across the country and three pledging chapters (colonies) and might have up to three more pledging chapters. If there is anyone out there looking to start a Christian sorority or is involved in a Christian organization that would like to align with a national organization, please check out our national website (still under construction, though) www.sigmaalphaomega.org There you can find information about expansion and contact information.

As a woman of faith, that is very cool:)

frightening
 

and scary

Re: frightening
 

WTF?

Congrats!! I hope all goes well for you guys (or girls I guess I should say) . :D

Congratulations! That is great news!

I want to encourage all the CGLOs to push forward and to continue their pursuit towards the kingdom.

AMEN!

I attend the Univeristy of Akron in Ohio and there is a Christian Sorority Interest group on my campus. They are called the HummingBird Club an Interest group of Delta Psi Epsilon Sorority.
The official website of Delta Psi Epsilon

The HummingBird Club

Please, no Piousness on Site.

No matter what God is beleived in by Faith, there is meaning among All of us.

I dont think I need to expound on this subject.

We just started a Kappa Upsilon Chi chapter here at The University of Texas- Dallas.

There are also chapters at Texas Tech, Wayland Baptist University, Southwestern University (Texas), Georgia College and State University, University of New Mexico, University of Oklahoma, Lamar University, and University of Florida.

I belong to Gamma Psi Lambda Christian Fraternity, Inc. We currently have 3 active chapters & 3 Functioning Colonies. In the spring there will be 2 more functioning colonies added to the fold.

Short 'n' sweet:
University of Florida has Sigma Phi Lamda (Sisters for the Lord) (Great, sweet, fun girls) and their borther fraternity, Kappa Upsilon Chi. The sorority is just a couple of years old and seems to be growing pretty decently. They do hold fall and spring rushes much like the NPHC and MGC.
We also have Chi Alpha, but they are not set up like traditional greeks.

Alpha Delta Chi and Alpha Gamma Omega
 

I am a proud alumni of Alpha Delta Chi the national Christian Sorority. I was in the Theta chapter at Fresno State and It made my college experience everything I wanted and more! There are currently 13 active chapters throughout the US and one chapter is in the refounding process. There is also interest growing at UVA and there is an Alumni at Texas A&M who is trying to start up a new chapter there as well. For more information check out the national website at www.alphadeltachi.org

We also have a brother fraternity Alpha Gamma Omega who has 9 chapters, 8 in California and one in Colorado at CU and a Colony is in progress at Colorado State. They are amazing men and I know we at Fresno are totally blessed by their presence at State and the brother and sisterhood we share. For more info on AGO go to their national website www.ago.org

Two generations of Christian Fraternities
 

I think of there being two generations of Christian Fraternities. The first one which basically ran from more or less the beginning of the social fraternal movement until the 1960s and the second which ran from the 1980s until today.

For the first generation. as I understand it, a significant number of current (and former) members of the NIC required that their members be Christian. These requirements were side by side with other requirements such as ethnic/racial limitations. I believe that these occured more often in fraternities founded south of the Mason-Dixon line, but was not limited to them either. I'm not really sure when these religious requirements went away though. I know that some of the NPC sororities also had similar limitations, but I know less about them.

Also, the religious requirements may have gone away in two phases, IMO, it is easier to justify to a college administration requiring a belief in God (banning atheists) than requiring a belief in Jesus Christ (banning Jews).

I don't *think* that any of the NPHC fraternities had (or have) religious requirements except maybe for a belief in God.

In the second generation, the reaction of administrations tends to vary based on how much the group attempts to act like a social GLO. If a Christian Fraternity acts like a subset of IVCF with Greek Letters and is willing to be on the Inter-religious council, I think they won't get much static. If, OTOH, they make an active effort to join the local IFC, things tend to get much uglier...

Also, does anyone know of any current GLOs with a Religious requirement other than Christianity? (have to be a Jew, have to be a Muslim, etc.)

I thought there was a Muslim-based sorority, but I can't remember the name now.

Gamma Gamma Chi

http://www.gammagammachi.org/

Great minds think alike. But, so do bowls of Jell-O.

My mind often resembles that remark.

A few of the homepage photos are funny because of the handsign.

That is all.

Check out the United Council of Christian Fraternities and Sororities, Inc.

Alpha Nu Omega, Inc.
Delta Psi Epsilon Christian Sorority, Inc.
Men of God Christian Fraternity, Inc.
Zeta Phi Zeta Christian Fraternity & Sorority, Inc.
Gamma Phi Delta Christian Fraternity, Inc.
Alpha Eta Theta Christian Sorority, Inc.

A member of SAO
 

I know this response is very late but as a member of a Christian Greek letter organization which is Sigma Alpha Omega Christian Sorority, Inc and since my sorority was mentioned in earlier posts, I must clear the air of any misunderstandings in regards to my sisterhood. Sigma Alpha Omega is a very young organization only 16 years old, however we have grown tremendously in the past 5 years. SAO is both faith-based and a social organization. With it being social, a young lady who has an interest in joining SAO cannot have another interest in joining another social sorority. That includes all Panhellenic Sororities, NPHC sororities, and MCG sororities. So I honestly don't understand how AXOeva was able to be a member of both AXO and SAO? For I know our National Policy forbids us from joining other SOCIAL Greek Letter organizations. SAO throws socials and events just as other social sororities, we do however require more of our sisters. We have a national non-profit organization Sisters by Grace and our national philanthropy is Ovarian Cancer in alliance with OCNA. Our membership in SAO is lifetime and we are founded first in Christ and second in sisterhood. I don't want to go any longer but more information about our requirements to join SAO is found at our website. Hope this clears everything up some!

I have known about your organization for a while. Having ovarian cancer I highly respect your philanthropy.

However, In regards of only being a member of Sigma Alpha Omega and not another social sorority. I took a look at your national website again and I could not find any mention of this policy. Many groups have this type of policy on the groups website. I was wondering if you might be confusing a campus policy for a national one?
DNP

I found this on their national website: http://www.sigmaalphaomega.org/ovari...awareness.html

sorry, I was referring to the policy of only being a member of just SAO. I have been really sick and seem to not make any sense.
I hope this make it clearer as to what I am actually trying to say.

I mentioned the philanthropy because that is how I remembered the group.
DNP

I am a man of faith deeply committed to my religeous beliefs but I find all of this about "christian fraternities and sororities" to be utter hogwash. If you want to join a prayer group or bible study group that's fine. But, if you want to be in a fraternity or sorority then rush with a clear understanding of what it is all about.
Being in an imitation fraternity or sorority makes no sense and demonstrates that one has missed the point of the whole Social Greek system. To pretend that one's GLO confers social Greek status is nonsense. To dress up a prayer group or a bunch of bible thumpers in Greek letters is offensive to me and to many others with whom I have discussed the matter.
The idea of a bunch of GDIs playing pretend would be amusing except the virtually universal attitude of smug superiority exhibited by these types who trumpet their "christianity" while displaying a serious lack of Christian values. As the old saying goes, if you talk the talk you have to walk the walk.
So, what sticks in my craw is the non-Christian aura of these so-called christians coupled with their complete lack of understanding of what being Greek is all about.
If you take offense at my comments so be it. I am offended by these imposters and their perversion of what being Christian is all about.
If these comments seem a bit on the strong side it is my reaction to all too many encounters with self satisfied smug types who tell me that I am damned because I am not like them, (as if its their role to be judgmental).
I figure they are perfectly free to do their own thing, but please don't pretend to be a real social Greek org.

Wow. Great job condemning the judgmentalism of others by deafening judgmentalism of your own. And great job generalizing that all people involved in GLOs that identify as Christian are the "self-satisfied smug types" you've encountered.

You're a Catholic. Surely you know that there have long been Catholic social fraternities and sororities. Lutheran ones, too.

By the way, your experience of what it means to be part of the "Social Greek system" is not the totality the social Greek experience. There are many "real" social fraternities and sororities that don't fit into your narrow mold.

And just in case it's not clear, I am not at all offended by your comments. I just think that your comments should be recognized for what they are: smug, judgmental, condescending and hypocritical.