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Home » January 2015: Most Read ESN Blog Posts

January 2015: Most Read ESN Blog Posts

January 31, 2015 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

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Perhaps most importantly, when we challenge our colleagues and students to use their learning to serve others, we give them a gift more valuable than any diploma: we teach them how to love.  — Bethany Bear, English Professor, Scholar’s Compass.

With  the Fall 2014 addition  of the rich offerings of  Scholar’s Compass, the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) has truly deepened in ways which are not quantifiable. Just yesterday  a friend shared with me over an informal coffee shop conversation  how much he appreciates ESN’s posts. He keeps pace not only  for personal enrichment, but also  to forward relevant ones to his son  (who is engaged in academic endeavors).  Such sharing of the bounty (individually and through larger structures such as campus ministry Facebook walls) and engaging/clarifying conversation is  what places  January 2015 not far behind  March 2013 (remember  March Madness 2013: Best Christian Book of All Time?)  as the most visited month in ESN blog history (launched August 2008).

Not  wanting you to miss the opportunity to read and bless others with  This Month’s Most Read Posts, I’ve included them below. As time permits this weekend, I encourage you not only to enjoy/share the wealth of the blog, but also to join the steady stream of people

  • letting  me know what readers would benefit from ESN  addressing/exploring in 2015.
  • exploring the opportunity to write for the Blog  and/or Scholar’s  Compass in particular.
  • joining ESN,  updating their membership information, and inviting friends to become part of the growing network.

To God be the glory!

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This Month’s Most Read Posts

  • Science Corner: All the Brilliant Ladies
  • Art, Scandal, and the Cross, Part 1
  • Finding a Postdoc in the Sciences: Nailing the Interview
  • James Clerk Maxwell’s Accidental Invention of the Color Photograph: Humility in Research and Faith
  • Scholar’s Compass: Preparing for Epiphany

Bonus: Most Read Posts of All Time

  • Finding a Postdoc in the Sciences: Nailing the Interview
  • What’s the purpose of a university?
  • The Best Christian Book of All Time Selection Show
  • What I Wish I’d Known About Graduate School: Surviving the Workload
  • Henri Nouwen: From Loneliness to Solitude

And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ, filled with the fruit of righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ – to the glory and praise of God. —Philippians 1:9-11

Tom Grosh IV
Tom Grosh IV

Tom enjoys daily conversations regarding living out the Biblical Story with his wife Theresa and their four girls, around the block, at Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ Church (where he teaches adult electives and co-leads a small group), among healthcare professionals as the Northeast Regional Director for the Christian Medical & Dental Associations (CMDA), and in higher ed as a volunteer with the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN). For a number of years, the Christian Medical Society / CMDA at Penn State College of Medicine was the hub of his ministry with CMDA. Note: Tom served with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship / USA for 20+ years, including 6+ years as the Associate Director of ESN. He has written for the ESN blog from its launch in August 2008. He has studied Biology (B.S.), Higher Education (M.A.), Spiritual Direction (Certificate), Spiritual Formation (M.A.R.), Ministry to Emerging Generations (D.Min.). To God be the glory!

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