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Home » Partner with ESN: Urbana 2015

Partner with ESN: Urbana 2015

May 30, 2015 by ESN Announce Leave a Comment

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The  Faithful Is Successful  ESN series. Friendships connecting Christian scholars from the West Coast, the Midwest, the Southeast, and the Northeast. Missional conversations among Christians at secular universities across the United States. What do all these have in common? They’re all brought about partly by God’s work at Urbana 2012. AND  Urbana 2015 is growing into the best Urbana yet for Christian academics living  missionally in the secular academy.  

Through connections created or sustained by Urbana 2012, the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) was able

  • to engage with the authors of  Faithful Is Successful,
  • foster missional conversations among academics across the country, and
  • take further steps in supporting a community of Christian scholars.

At Urbana 2015 (December 27 – 31, St. Louis, MO), we’re ready to do even more:

S. Joshua Swamidass connects with Emerging Scholars, including J. Nathan Matias at ESN's Urbana12 Reception.
S. Joshua Swamidass connects with Emerging Scholars, including J. Nathan Matias and Katelin Hansen at ESN’s Urbana12 Reception featuring Greg Jao on Your Mind’s Mission (InterVarsity Press, 2012).

1. A set of seminars designed to engage believers in higher education.

With the return of dynamic offerings that were packed out last time, like Greg Jao on Your Mind’s Mission,  Josh Swamidass on Grad School for God’s Global Mission, and a panel on The Secular Academy as a Mission Field (2012 Resource List), Graduate and Faculty Ministries and ESN are ready to provide content supporting Christian scholars in missional living.

Urbana ’12 was my sixth Urbana conference. I loved partnering with other faculty and InterVarsity staff to encourage conference attendees to see graduate school and an academic career as potential callings from God. —  David Vosburg,  Associate Professor of Chemistry, Harvey Mudd College. Note: We look forward to David once again serving on the  Urbana GFM/ESN resource team.

2. A Graduate and Faculty Ministry (GFM)/ESN Lounge.  

GFM/ESN are also welcoming Christian academics to connect through a lounge space designed specifically to offer support through professional advice, spiritual formation, and friendship among believing academics. Furthermore, we’re planning opportunities  to engage with others in the  humanities, natural sciences, and social sciences.

Graduate school is a time of great focus, so Urbana is an important reminder of the global Body of Christ and how we fit into the work that God is doing around the world. This perspective affects how we conduct our daily research and studies, and indeed how we shape our careers. —  Katelin Hansen. Note: “Congrats!” to Katelin  for completing her  PhD in  Neuroscience  (The Ohio State University). And we very much look forward to having her join  the  Urbana15 GFM/ESN resource team.

3. Other Opportunities in the works.    

Stay tuned for more information on  ways ESN will be engaging  scholars and Emerging Scholars  at Urbana, including a focused scholarship program. Note: Don’t miss Urbana GFM  on Facebook 🙂

Please take a few minutes to  pray for God’s provision for the Emerging Scholars Network  as we press into  this crucial engagement of  emerging Christian academics.  As you have the ability, we invite  you to prayerfully consider becoming part of the support team through giving  at the close of our fiscal year (June 30).


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The Emerging Scholars Network is always seeking opportunities to identify, encourage, and equip the next generation of Christian scholars to be a redeeming influence in the academy, church, and the world. As you have an announcement, a “call for papers”, an event, a prayer request (e.g., campus, field, higher ed), a resource suggestion, a review, etc., which is in concord with our Kingdom of God endeavor, please send materials (marketing/sales material not accepted) for consideration to post via email or the ESN Writer Survey. Thank you.

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Academics as Mission, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: donors, ESN Connect, support, urbana, urbana15

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