Looking for Advent resources? Here are some from ESN and others. However you choose to honor the season, we pray that Christ's presence would be very real to you this year. - Hannah Eagleson, ESN Associate Director ESN Dwelling in Advent and Christmas Reading List From our Fall 2019 Weekly Readings for Grad Students and Faculty Week 1: First Week of Advent: The Word (Scholar's Compass), Series by Joy Moore Week 2: Second Week of Advent: Hope (Scholar's Compass), Series by Joy Moore Week 3: Third Week … [Read more...] about Advent Resources for 2019
Some Thanksgiving Reading Suggestions
Need some encouraging short readings for Thanksgiving week? Browse these posts from our archives: Housework Is Anything But Ordinary (Scholar's Compass online devotional for academics) Many of our readers are doing a lot of prep work for Thanksgiving or other holidays. You may appreciate Mark Eckel's reflection on how the act of housekeeping fits into our spiritual lives, letting us enter into many of the same modes of experience Christian scholars often seek in humanities study. Thanksgiving for Domestic … [Read more...] about Some Thanksgiving Reading Suggestions
Writing Invitation: Send Us a Prayer for Those in an Academic Field
Dear ESN Blog Readers, We're seeking prayers written for and/or by those in a particular academic field. We plan to publish these in the Spring 2020 semester and beyond. We'd love to see more prayers about the particular joys and challenges of fields as diverse as classics and computational biology, ecology and theoretical mathematics, medieval history and business management. We plan to publish a series of these prayers in the spring 2020 semester, and we may extend the series if we get enough material. We welcome … [Read more...] about Writing Invitation: Send Us a Prayer for Those in an Academic Field
Nov 19: ESN Conversations, Book Club Edition, Wolterstorff’s Religion in the University
November 19, 2019: 12 PM ET Videochat: Book Discussion on Religion in the University by Nicholas Wolterstorff. We hope you've been enjoying our new videochat series, ESN Conversations. For our November conversation, we're trying something a little different. Read the book (we're offering a discount code!), then join us for an interactive book club discussion facilitated by our talented InterVarsity colleague Robin Capcara. To participate RSVP to bob.trube(at)intervarsity.org for a webinar link. For those signing … [Read more...] about Nov 19: ESN Conversations, Book Club Edition, Wolterstorff’s Religion in the University
Author Interview: James Ungureanu, Historian of Science
One of our goals at ESN is to support Christian academics in their scholarly writing and publishing, so we love to highlight publications by ESN writers as we can. This fall University of Pittsburgh Press is releasing James Ungureanu's new scholarly book. We greatly appreciated Dr. Ungureanu's work for ESN's new faith and science study guide, and we're delighted to present this interview about his new full length book. Book: Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of … [Read more...] about Author Interview: James Ungureanu, Historian of Science