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Welcome back to the Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! We took a little hiatus, but we’re back to our conversations on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch along and join the conversation. This week’s film is another 20-year-old classic from 1999: The Matrix.Read more…
One major need we have found in our work with ESN: it’s often hard to find prayers and devotional material specifically addressed to the life of the Christian serving God in the university. This week we share a prayer forRead more…
Dear ESN Blog Readers, We’re seeking prayers written for and/or by those in a particular academic field. We plan to publish these in the Spring 2020 semester and beyond. We’d love to see more prayers about the particular joys andRead more…
We will likely continue to find more data that help us understand our past in greater detail, but the picture emerging at present involves multiple locations across Africa, of which this region of Botswana is likely one but not the only.Read more…
Amidst all the conversations of how to best pay for healthcare in the United States, we also need to discuss how to best treat patients for those dollars.Read more…
As I wrangle more conversations into a shareable format for our sci-fi film festival (thanks for your patience), let’s return to a sci-fi topic encroaching on our reality: extraterrestrial life.Read more…
November 19, 2019: 12 PM ET Videochat: Book Discussion on Religion in the University by Nicholas Wolterstorff. We hope you’ve been enjoying our new videochat series, ESN Conversations. For our November conversation, we’re trying something a little different. Read theRead more…
As we can, we love to share information about other ministries supporting Christian academics on campus. A friend of ESN shared this event on the Queen’s University (Kingston, Ontario) campus with us. Read more…
Digging into the details of how this year’s Nobel-winning discoveries changed the world.Read more…
How can a thriving faith/science group help you start broader conversations with friends and colleagues, whatever their worldviews? How do you launch a faith/science small group and build community over time?Read more…
There are still a number of great folks chatting with me about sci-fi films for our film festival, but those conversations are still in midstream so we’re taking a break this week. Instead, I’d like to tell you a little bit about an event I had the privilege to participate in last month: ΘeoCon.Read more…
Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: all major interests of many ESN readers. In this interview, we explore what James Ungureanu has to say about them in his new book. Read more…
Welcome to the first Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! I’ll be having a conversation here on the blog on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch alonggh and join the conversation. This week’s film isRead more…
I continue my conversation with Mike Beidler about Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace as we chat about continuity, canon, and capitalism.Read more…
Struggling with writer’s block? Wondering how to make your academic writing stronger? It’s not too late to join us online this Thursday. Andy Le Peau shares 40 years of editing experience with us in one videochat. Read more…
Oh Lord, We ask that You would gift those studying the humanities this fall with Your wisdom, Your courage, and Your joy. We ask Your wisdom, oh Holy Spirit! Many students and scholars explore the humanities with the hope ofRead more…
Welcome to the first Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! I’ll be having a conversation here on the blog on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch along and join the conversation. This week’s film is 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.Read more…
In the ten-day window when the dates are all palindromes (9 10 19, 9 11 19, etc.), let’s have some math news.Read more…
Whether you just started graduate school or are almost finished, our weekly fall readings are designed to help you grow in your sense of calling in the university. Read more…
Renew your sense of calling with our fall 2019 weekly readings, designed for individuals and small groups.Read more…
How is God inviting you into His story this year? Read more…
There’s a lot happening this fall for ESN and friends! Events online and in person, one time and ongoing. Read more…
Biology is not fully reducible to genetics, and behavior is not fully reducible to biology. I’ve found myself using that adage more often in conversation, so I thought perhaps it would be helpful to mention and unpack here. As farRead more…
The setup is that astronaut Catherine Wells has returned to Earth after a nine year absence, the sole survivor of a interstellar mission written off as a complete loss years earlier. She has no recollection of the critical portions of her journey, and thus cannot explain where her crewmates are, why she was gone for so long, and how she got back.Read more…