For the past several years, InterVarsity Faculty Ministry in collaboration with InterVarsity's Study Abroad program, has hosted Via Divina, a digital pilgrimage with downloadable audio guides and companion written materials. This year's digital pilgrimage is titled The Franciscan Way and follows the lives of St. Francis and Clare of Assisi. Jamie Noyd, director of the program for graduate students and faculty, will be previewing the themes of the walks of this year's pilgrimage in a series of posts. The program is open … [Read more...] about The Franciscan Way (Walk One): Joy and Suffering
Join us for Via Divina: The Celtic Way for Faculty, June 24-July 23
Join us for a flexible pilgrimage experience from your front door. We'll provide you with audio walking guides to help you reflect, digital debrief group opportunities, and webinars exploring the themes of the guides. Jamie Noyd shares more below. Sponsored by InterVarsity's Graduate and Faculty Ministries. Register here for The Celtic Way In the Celtic tradition of Christianity pilgrims didn't have a definite destination. They only knew and trusted the trinitarian God who called them as they headed out. … [Read more...] about Join us for Via Divina: The Celtic Way for Faculty, June 24-July 23
Vocation: A Calling to Life and Not Just Work
Our calling is to more than our work. In the fourth part of our series on vocation, Jamie Noyd directs our attention to the multiple callings upon our lives reflecting our different roles. But how might we live a seamless rather than fragmented and frazzled life pursuing these multiple callings? It comes in understanding the greater story within which we live. _______________________________________________________ The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life, and have it … [Read more...] about Vocation: A Calling to Life and Not Just Work
Walking the Campus (Growing Spiritually in the Academic Life Series)
At Emerging Scholars Network, we love to crowdsource ideas for following Christ faithfully and serving others well in the academic life. In the 2018/2019 academic year, we've been sharing brief insights on how to grow spiritually in the academic life. Read the series to date here. For more of Jamie Noyd's thoughtful writing for ESN, click here. … [Read more...] about Walking the Campus (Growing Spiritually in the Academic Life Series)
Good Friday: Jesus Dies on the Cross
Luke 23:44-46 By this time it was noon, and darkness fell across the whole land until three o'clock. The light from the sun was gone. And suddenly, the curtain in the sanctuary of the Temple was torn down the middle. Then Jesus shouted, “Father, I entrust my spirit into your hands!” And with those words he breathed his last. Something is different. You had expected to hang around Golgotha for most of the day as Jesus endured a slow, painful death. Then, as soon as you settle in for the long hours ahead, the sky grows … [Read more...] about Good Friday: Jesus Dies on the Cross