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We’re deeply grateful for an exciting first week of Scholar’s Compass! Please join us in thanking God and praying for the project. Also, we’ve received an exciting opportunity and are issuing an extra call for science-related devotionals. Scroll down forRead more…
Welcome to Scholar’s Compass, a devotional written for and by scholars.
Scholar’s Compass launches tomorrow! We’re deeply grateful for the response to the project so far. First and foremost, we want to thank God for the generous response of so many people who have agreed to write for the project andRead more…
Join us Sunday for the first glance at Scholar’s Compass. With our initial theme of Navigating Beginnings, we’ll be exploring the following topics during September: What physics can show us about seeking God’s glory How the Iliad guides us toward hospitalityRead more…
Many of you generously expressed an interest in praying for Scholar’s Compass, which launches next Sunday (September 7). We’ll be posting prayer requests the first Saturday of each month on the ESN blog, and we’d love for you to readRead more…
As we’re launching Scholar’s Compass, we’d love to connect with communities who might want to try it out and give us occasional feedback. Do you know any groups of graduate students or professors who might want to try it out?Read more…
ESN’s new devotional for scholars launches September 7, and we’re planning the themes or threads that it will feature across the year. In keeping with our title of Scholar’s Compass, we’ve chosen the idea of navigation to tie these threads together.Read more…
Scholar’s Compass, ESN’s new devotional by and for scholars, is taking shape. We’ll be launching September 8 with posts three times weekly. We’ve had about 55 responses to our survey, and we’re excited to talk more with each of you.Read more…
Thanks to everyone who commented for giving us so many great name ideas. We were impressed as always with the creativity and thoughtfulness of ESN members. We deeply appreciated your ideas, and may use some of them as theme ideasRead more…
We’re deeply excited by the response to the academic devotional so far. Over forty writers in at least five countries have gotten in touch. We’re delighted to hear from so many scholars who want to talk about integrating faith andRead more…
Thank you so much for your response to our academic devotional survey last week! We’re thrilled to have so many graduate students and faculty participating already, from a wide variety of institutions including state and private universities, engineering institutions, and universitiesRead more…
The Emerging Scholars Network is launching an exciting new writing/community building project [Scholar’s Compass launched Fall 2014], and we’d love for you to participate. If you’re interested, please fill out the survey below or drop us an email. Many ChristianRead more…
The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood, The land of spices; something understood. – Description of prayer from George Herbert’s poem Prayer (I) Reflection I certainly didn’t expect it. If someone had toldRead more…
Hannah, Thank-you for offering this letter of encouragement! The faculty with whom I shared your words at Mentoring over the Long Term: Crafting Conversations, a seminar co-led with Terry Gustafson (OSU, Chemistry Professor) at the 2014 MidWest Faculty Conference on TheRead more…
The virtues, disciplines, and choices of faithful art-making are often similar to the things that sustain faithful scholarship.Read more…
The wheat is full, pushing through the husks, ripe. / It overflows, lacking only / Those who yearn to harvest, / To gather and to give. . . .Read more…
This riot of lilies and sparrows, / Of pearls and trees and / Fields and fishermen, / This topsy turvy jumbleRead more…
Pulling into the driveway, / Late (of course) – / Gathering my backpack, change, glasses, groceries . . .Read more…
Darting, shy, / They seem doubtful – / Have I really put this thistle out for them, / Or am I hoping for something / More exotic –Read more…
Tom recently posted about graduate students mentoring undergrads at Johns Hopkins. Graduate school offers many opportunities to mentor, whether that means chatting with your undergraduate students during office hours or introducing new graduate students to your department. Here are aRead more…
My last post ended with a section on following up with mentors, and I’d like to expand on that a bit here. In this post, I’ll look at a few ways of maintaining mentor relationships over time. Sustaining anything overRead more…
Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. — Proverbs 20:5, KJV Even if you have good mentors, learning wisdom from them is a skill. It’s an art that takesRead more…
Now that we’ve explored some ways to find mentors as an undergrad, I’d like to transition and focus on some elements that make up the art of being mentored. I hope that what I say here will be helpful acrossRead more…
Last week, I gave some general thoughts on finding good mentors as an undergraduate. This week, I’ll talk a bit about finding mentors who share your beliefs. This is not in any way to minimize the value of mentors whoRead more…