Last week, NIH Director and BioLogos founder Francis Collins announced that he would no longer accept invitations to conferences with all-male panels.Read more…
Rest and Flourishing: ESN Weekly Summer Readings for Faculty (Small Group or Individual)
Are you looking for summer readings for faculty small groups or individual reflection? We have curated 12 weeks of ESN content to help you rest and flourish as a faculty member following Christ in academia.Read more…
Faith and Reason Part 6: Plantinga
Plantinga has singlehandedly changed the debate in several areas of analytic philosophy.Read more…
Call for Papers on Transhumanism: A Scholarship—and Faith—Opportunity
At ESN, we like to share opportunities to write for academic journals addressing various aspects of scholarship and faith. Friend of ESN David Winyard invites ESN readers to submit work to a special edition of the journal Perspectives on Science and Christian Faith (the journal of the American Scientific Affiliation).Read more…
Rest and Growth: ESN Weekly Summer Readings for Grad Students (Small Group or Individual)
Are you looking for summer readings for small groups or individual reflection? We have curated 12 weeks of ESN content to help you rest and grow as a graduate student following Christ in academia. Our readings start with a seriesRead more…
Science Corner: In the Hot Zone
Richard Preston’s The Hot Zone was not my first introduction to emerging infectious diseases. … Still, Preston’s controversial best seller likely introduced me to the Ebola virus and to concepts like biosafety level 4 laboratories.Read more…
Scholarships to ASA Faith & Science Conference
Would you like to enjoy Chicago deep dish pizza while you hear from someone who has introduced millions of students to fundamental science concepts? Have you ever wished you could take a field trip to Fermilab, home of major discoveries about quarks?Read more…
Science Book Review: The Big Nine – How the Tech Titans & Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity
[The Big Nine] reads like a blend of science fact and fiction as [author Amy] Webb tells us where we’ve been and imagines where we might go.Read more…
Science Corner: Welcome to the Human Club
We are already human, but not yet the human we are headed towards. The human experience is intrinsically one of becoming, not merely being.Read more…
Science Book Review: Complexity – A Guided Tour
Complexity introduces readers to the wide-ranging world of complexity science, with an emphasis on the computational side. Plus a robot that cleans up for you.Read more…
Job Announcement: Professor or Adjunct Professor of Computer Science
As a public service, we post job openings that may be of interest to our audience. Read on for more details on a position at Sattler College in Boston. PROFESSOR OR ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Job Description Sattler CollegeRead more…
Science Corner: Portrait of an Emerging Scholar
We wander a bit outside the usual science themes, but we are not lost; we are with Tolkien.Read more…
Free Webinar Saturday: Jesus, Beginnings, and Science with David and Kate Vosburg
We’re delighted to share that friends of ESN David and Kate Vosburg will be offering a free webinar this Saturday through the Society of Christian Scholars. More detail below. Register here Jesus, Beginnings, and Science Webinar Description David and KateRead more…
A Philosophy Professor Prays for Emerging Writers
Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan shared this prayer at a gathering of The Augustine Collective. We liked it so much we asked her if we could share it with Christian academics at the ESN blog. At ESN, we love to shareRead more…
Science Book Review: Underbug – An Obsessive Tale of Termites and Technology
Termites feature prominently, but it’s one of those “it was really about us all along” kind of stories.Read more…
Science Corner: The Time Stone Heals All Wounds?
What heals all wounds is healing.Read more…
Science Corner: A Loaf of Bread, a Container of Milk, and a Unicorn
Unicorn Store, the tale of a frustrated art student offered the opportunity to adopt a unicorn, exists well outside the world of science fiction stories I typically review here. Yet as I watched, it struck me just how much theRead more…
Happy Easter from ESN
He is risen! May you know the joy of Christ’s presence today. We hope the following hymn [Come You Faithful, Raise the Strain] helps you celebrate the risen life of our Savior.Read more…
Science Book Review: How the Body of Christ Talks
How the Body of Christ Talks by C. Christopher Smith is an invitation to deeper conversation for Christian congregations, although organizations of all sorts will likely find value in Smith’s observations and advice.Read more…
Entering One Holy Week
Thank you to Kirsten Wagenius for sharing “ONE HOLY WEEK: an Easter journey from palms to persecution to praise” with the Emerging Scholars Network!Read more…
Science Corner: Adding to the Conversation
Highlights from Francis Su’s webinar “The Integration of Faith and the Academic Calling.”Read more…
Spiritual Life As An Academic: The Perpetual Student
Part of the challenge in academia is that my success seems tied to my ‘expertise.’ Read more…
Science Corner: 2019 BioLogos Conference Recap
Last week I had the opportunity to attend the BioLogos conference in Baltimore, MD. Although there is a healthy dose of science, their conferences have a different feel than American Scientific Affiliation meetings, or at least the one I attended.Read more…
American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting
The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) annual faith/science conference is coming up July 19-22. The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) and ASA have partnered to expand student/early career presence greatly in the last few years, and this time we would love to connect with even more emerging scholars and more experienced mentors.Read more…