As everyone settles into fall rhythms, we wanted to give you a quick preview of the rest of the semester at ESN.Read more…
Social Sciences at ESN This Fall: What Are You Looking For?
This summer, we thought we’d try an experiment and invite readers to tell us what they’d like to see at the blog in various areas. Tell us in the comments!Read more…
Humanities at ESN This Fall: What Do You Want to See?
Interested in the humanities, professionally or as an avocation? Tell us what you’d like to see at the blog this fall. Read more…
ESN Local Boston: Hear Francis Collins at ASA 2018
Local to Boston? ASA wants to make it easy for you to hear Francis Collins and connect with ESN on July 28. Read more…
Summer Book Suggestion: Spiritual Rhythm by Mark Buchanan
We’re looking for summer reading suggestions from our readers. Blog editor Hannah Eagleson shares one of her favorites to help get us started. Read more…
A Prayer for Those Finishing a Semester
One end of semester day during my own PhD study years, I went down to my local coffee shop and ordered a latte. The barista took one look at me and said, “An extra shot, then?”Read more…
Ice Cream, Work, and Liturgy: Formed to Work for the Glory of God Conference
I didn’t expect ice cream to be such an important part of the most recent conference I attended. Read more…
Highlighting Community: Princeton Grad IV Social Justice Discussion
Restarting the Princeton InterVarsity Graduate Fellowship and talking about social justice. Read more…
Connect with ESN Each Month: New Events and Updates
Want to find out about new ESN events? Stories/quotes from ESN members? Blog highlights?Read more…
Pray for ESN Team Meetings This Week
ESN has grown dramatically as a community since I began working for InterVarsity two years ago, and it’s so exciting to see new connections flourishing. Like Paul, I find myself thanking God as I remember you all, ESN’s faithful readers and supporters. . . . Pray for us as we meet this week to continue to respond to God’s call to come alongside and partner with Emerging Scholars.Read more…
Giving Thanks: Serving Over 400 Emerging Scholars at Urbana
As we plan for 2016, we’re deeply heartened by the way emerging scholars participated in Urbana15. We’re filled with excitement as we work on ways to provide more mentoring, conferencing, and communal conversation for members in 2016.Read more…
Stone Soup, Scarcity, and the Kingdom of God (Scholar’s Compass)
Stone soup has been on my mind this January. I remember as a child reading a book where a few weary soldiers heading home from a war stop in a village. I guess they were short on money in the story, because they ask the people in the village to give them some food.Read more…
Finding Christ When You’re Busy, Part 4 (Scholar’s Compass)
The people who prayed me through graduate school included homemakers, staff members of a local food pantry, artists, lawyers, part time church secretaries, state tax employees, retail workers, and so many others.Read more…
Finding Christ When You’re Busy, Part 3 (Scholar’s Compass)
We may not always be able to give the biggest percentage of our time to prayer or meditation. But can we give the best of our time to God? Read more…
Finding Christ When You’re Busy, Part 2 (Scholar’s Compass)
Perhaps the time you can make for prayer and meditation right now feels like the widow’s mite—practically nothing on the world’s scale of value. Maybe you only have 15 minutes to give to prayer and Scripture reading at this moment. Maybe you only have 5. Read more…
Finding Christ When You’re Busy, Part 1 (Scholar’s Compass)
Sometimes God calls us to a moment or even a season of life in which time is severely limited. How do we seek Him when we’re busy?Read more…
New Science/Faith Resource Page from ASA
Looking for faith/science resources? Check out the new Resources on Science and Christian Faith from the American Scientific Affiliation. Read more…
Sailing and the Spirit (Scholar’s Compass)
I’ve been learning to sail this summer. I’ve also been wondering if Jesus was thinking about all the fishermen He knew when He said this. Starting to sail made me pay attention to the wind, and as I’ve done that I’ve found myself understanding these words about the Spirit in a new way. Read more…
Loving Our Neighbors Through Research (Scholar’s Compass)
It’s easy to imagine an academic vocation as a solitary one, full of brilliant and prickly eccentrics who publish famous monographs but have no idea who lives on their street. But in addition to reminding me how deeply an academic life can be centered in love of God, the scholars at the Lausanne Creation Care and the Gospel Conference also reminded me how deeply it can be about love of neighbor.Read more…
The Earth is the Lord’s: Worship as Vocation (Scholar’s Compass)
I had an amazing week at the Lausanne Creation Care and the Gospel conference. Many of those present were involved in very active work to care for God’s creation, whether that meant working for a missions organization that helps communities improve agriculture and care for the environment by planting trees, or facilitating Christian academics to partner with local organizations in ecological research.Read more…
Finding Rest (Scholar’s Compass)
What does rest mean if you’re coming up for tenure and working for as many lines on the CV as possible, if your course planning is complex, if your dissertation seems to be an endless cascade of new and complicated research tasks that lead from one to another? Read more…
Community, Excellence, and Joy, Part 2 (Closing Interview, Faithful Is Successful series)
ESN: One of the largest themes of the series has to do with issues of faith and ambition. It seems that God has called us to do our best work for Him, and yet He’s also called us to seek humility and associate with the humble. Any further thoughts on navigating that tension?Read more…
Community, Excellence, and Joy, Part 1 (Closing Interview, Faithful Is Successful series)
It is too risky not to engage with a Christian academic community. Read more…
Faithful Is Successful: Continuing Conversations (Scholar’s Compass)
This week wraps up our Scholar’s Compass series on Faithful is Successful. When we started way back in February, my area was looking like Narnia’s hundred-year winter . . . Read more…