The result is a wide-ranging exploration of questions, some specific to the present science-faith conversation and some raised perennially by skeptics and curious seekers.Read more…
Remembering the Sabbath (Growing Spiritually in Academic Life Series)
In sharing thoughts on prospering in your life as an academic, I’m not going to tell you to work hard. You wouldn’t be reading this if you needed reminding!Read more…
Science Corner: A Century of the Flu
Neither humanity’s first nor last widespread encounter with influenza, the 1918-19 pandemic is notable for how quickly and widely it spread: in less than 6 months it was on every continent and ultimately infected as many as 1 out of every 3 people on the planet.Read more…
Tips from Tim Gilmour (Growing Spiritually in Academic Life Series)
Life in the university promises a chance to think about the big questions in life, to reflect on who we are and what we’re learning. But all too often, life as an academic seems so busy as to overwhelm anyRead more…
Science Corner: The Making of a Monster
This week, I want to highlight the science of Frankenstein.Read more…
New Tips Series: Growing Spiritually in Your Academic Life
One of the most gratifying and rewarding experiences in both my spiritual and intellectual life was taking a year to read the Bible from my own discipline.Read more…
Apply for the ESN Urbana 18 Fellows Program
Need support contextualizing your mission to proclaim Christ and your role as an emerging scholar? We are offering 30 emerging scholars $100 towards Urbana costs, a special small group meeting via conference call before Urbana, and an ESN Fellows dinner onsite at Urbana. Read more…
Book Review: Frankenstein
Frankenstein is the one who steals from the gods (God?) the ability to create life from that which is lifeless.Read more…
Science Book Review: Scientism and Secularism
[Scientism and Secularism] is clearly aimed at fellow Christians who agree with Moreland that science is taking influence away from the church and who need help articulating why theology and religion are still relevant.Read more…
Healing through the ESN Steam Grant Project
When I was approached to lead conversations with graduate students about science and faith topics as part of the ESN STEAM grant project, I accepted with a good deal of hesitation. Read more…
Science Corner: Finding Your Way Through Math
Topology is a standard topic in mathematics; topiary less so. That’s why I thought it was pretty cool to read about a mathematician-designed maze in celebration of the Abel Prize.Read more…
Faith and Science Talks from our STEAM Project Conference Track
If you enjoyed our STEAM project faith/science blog series, you may also want to listen to the panels below, hosted at the ASA website. Read more…
A Christian Response to the Immigration Dilemma: Part 12 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series
This final chapter is a call to action, recommending several possible ways you as a Christian can become involved in the immigration dilemma.Read more…
Walk in the Lord, Bless The Lord
As we enter a new week seeking to fulfill our call as Christ followers in the milieu of higher ed, may our thoughts, words and lives bless the Lord.Read more…
Engaged Learning, YouTube, and Audience Needs
We have content that we want to offer, while our audience has content that they want to receive, and often somewhere else lies the content that our audience needs. Read more…
Science Corner: Take Me to Your Victrola
Truly universal truths can be more elusive than they seem.Read more…
Immigration and the Church Today: Part 11 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series
This week, our subject is Chapter 9 of Welcoming the Stranger, “Immigration and the Church Today.” Read more…
We Are Ahab – Both Hunter and Hunted. A Book Review of Moby Dick
If you can survive through the minutia, what makes Moby Dick such an iconic book, and further, why should anyone bother taking up the massive tome (assuming they haven’t been guilted into it!) and read 500+ pages when anyone knows how the book will end?Read more…
Engaged Learning in Church
W. Brian Lane shares some ways to use engaged learning techniques in church settings. Read more…
Science Corner: What the FOXP2 Say
Regardless of how one understands our relationship to the animal kingdom, many of us are interested in what distinguishes us biologically from animals, especially the animals most similar to us: chimpanzees, gorillas, and the like.Read more…
Immigration Policies and Politics. Part 10 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series
I have long thought that the only reason this issue is not more forcefully addressed is because immigration affects “those people,” and that the politicians families and friends are not affected.Read more…
Book Review: Introverts in the Church
Adam’s admission of his own construction of a one-dimensional image of leadership—the most effective leader being a high-paced, always outward-oriented extrovert—is something I personally resonate with as an introvert, and I believe all leaders and leaders-in-training should reckon with and seek to correct.Read more…
Snapshots of “Freedom All the Way Up”
God created the universe(s) to provide the space and conditions for the emergence of habitable bio-niches in which agape-capable beings would eventually emerge to live in agape-love relations with God and with others. Earth is one such emergent bio-niche, and Homo sapiens are an instance of such emergent agape-loving beings. In other words, the telos (purpose) of the universe is to be birthing-space, nursery, and home for agape-capable beings in relationships and actions of agape-love towards God and others. – Christian Barrigar, Faith All the Way Up: God and the Meaning of Life in a Scientific Age, 21Read more…
Science in Review: Seeing the Random Forest for the Trees
We talk a lot about science here, but science isn’t just talk. I thought maybe we could roll up our sleeves and try a little science.Read more…