InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network
Heading to grad school in Fall 2019? Know someone who is? Invite them to our ESN Connect program for connections to local Christian grad school groups, tips on making a strong transition, and a special videochat on how to choose a school and prepare once you’re accepted.Read more…
With both sorrow and joy, we announce that Tom Grosh IV will be transitioning to a new role as an area director with CMDA (Christian Medical and Dental Association) in South Central Pennsylvania, and I will be carrying on the vision and mission of ESN. Sorrow, because Tom is an amazing colleague who has grown ESN into a vibrant ministry with a strong model, and I will miss him immensely. Joy, because Tom is moving on to another wonderful opportunity to serve Christ and still plans to do some volunteer writing with ESN, and joy also because I am deeply excited to grow the vision, mission, and model Tom has built at ESN.Read more…
One of my [Hannah] most vivid memories of Urbana 15: sitting at a table of emerging scholars passionately discussing what it means to be missional in a humanities field, as the loudspeaker above blared regular announcements such as, “Those in the green area, you should be finishing your salad now. Those in the red area, you should be clearing your tables now.”Read more…
A list of Advent resources you may find helpful this year, including some from our archives.Read more…
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…
As everyone settles into fall rhythms, we wanted to give you a quick preview of the rest of the semester at ESN.Read more…
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…
Interested in the humanities, professionally or as an avocation? Tell us what you’d like to see at the blog this fall. Read more…
Local to Boston? ASA wants to make it easy for you to hear Francis Collins and connect with ESN on July 28. Read more…
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…
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…
I didn’t expect ice cream to be such an important part of the most recent conference I attended. Read more…
Restarting the Princeton InterVarsity Graduate Fellowship and talking about social justice. Read more…
Want to find out about new ESN events? Stories/quotes from ESN members? Blog highlights?Read more…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Looking for faith/science resources? Check out the new Resources on Science and Christian Faith from the American Scientific Affiliation. Read more…
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…
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…