We are delighted to announce that the annual Christian Scholars Foundation-ESN Grant for junior faculty will increase to $26,000 for 2022. The CSF-ESN grant, awarded annually to an ESN member who is junior faculty, consistently supports excellent projects that integrate faith and scholarship and support the common good. CSF-ESN Grant awardees have gone on to model excellent integration of scholarship and faith in both secular and Christian institutions, to serve in innovative programs such as the Fulbright … [Read more...] about Apply for the $26k Christian Scholars Foundation-ESN Grant
February through April ESN Conversations.
We are very excited to announce our upcoming ESN Conversations for the next three months and wanted to let you know so you could get these on your calendar. February 10, 2022: Faithful Antiracism. We will be joined by Chad Brennan, who is coordinator of the Race, Religion, and Justice Project, and founder of Renew Partnerships, a Christian research and consulting ministry that focuses on diversity and race in faith-based organizations. Also joining us is Christina Barland Edmondson. She is a higher education … [Read more...] about February through April ESN Conversations.
Have You Discovered ESN’s YouTube Channel?
A little over two years ago, before the pandemic, ESN launched our ESN Conversations, monthly conversations with scholars about the intersection of faith and scholarship. Over 400 people have participated in conversations. The early conversations weren't recorded, mostly due to legal reasons, but also to give us a chance to learn how to do this. By July of 2020, we had worked out those issues and began, with an interview of Elaine Howard Ecklund, to post these interviews on our newly created Emerging Scholars Network … [Read more...] about Have You Discovered ESN’s YouTube Channel?
Event Announcement: ESN Conversation – Struggling With Evangelicalism
Most of us who in some way identify as "evangelical" are struggling, whether we use this as a descriptor or affirm some of its historical theological distinctives. Some of us have left and some are thinking about it. Some of us have personally been impacted while others of us have witnessed injustices, the abuse of power, and other patterns of wrongdoing inconsistent with the gospel of Jesus. Even among those of us who have "stayed," perhaps because of positive factors in our own context, we wonder whether the label … [Read more...] about Event Announcement: ESN Conversation – Struggling With Evangelicalism
Seminary Now: How Do We Reconcile Science and the Bible on Origins?
We wanted to pass along from our partners at Seminary Now a preview of John Walton's course on The Lost World of Genesis One. Also, for a limited time, Seminary Now is offering up to a 50 percent discount on their courses! Consider signing up for this course or another as something to do over semester break! In his Seminary Now course based on the book The Lost World of Genesis One (InterVarsity Press), Bible scholar John Walton argues that Genesis was never intended to answer modern scientific questions about … [Read more...] about Seminary Now: How Do We Reconcile Science and the Bible on Origins?