Assistant Professor Meagan Medley shares the mix of things in her summer with readers in this Summer Snapshot [1]. Also check out Meagan's Scholar's Compass pieces here. Photo: New Orleans at Night, from NASA. While many picture summer as a time of beaches, pools and binge watching the latest drama, God's plans for me this summer involve a juggle of research, teaching, and coordinating mission teams coming to New Orleans. It's such a blessing to have a full plate and to see impact in a tangible way as the typical … [Read more...] about Summer Snapshot: Research, Teaching, Missions
The Alps, Prayer, and Scholarship
“Sometimes we hear it said that ten minutes on your knees will give you a truer, deeper, more operative knowledge of God than ten hours over your books. ‘What!' is the appropriate response, ‘than ten hours over your books, on your knees?” – Benjamin Warfield, Princeton Seminary, 1911 address to students Reflection I have been surrounded by books for as long as I can recall. As a child I could hear the footsteps of my parents coming up the stairs as a signal to turn the light out and stash the stack of books under … [Read more...] about The Alps, Prayer, and Scholarship
Scholar’s Compass: Making God’s Glory Known
It is an abdication of scholarship when Christians do academic work with little reference to God. If all the universe and everything in it exist by the design of an infinite, personal God, to make his manifold glory known and loved, then to treat any subject without reference to God's glory is not scholarship but instruction. All branches of learning’ exist ultimately for the purposes of knowing God, loving God, and loving man through Jesus Christ. – John Piper, in Think: The Life of the Mind and the Love of … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Making God’s Glory Known
Scholar’s Compass: Building Thanksgiving
World Changers New Orleans, 2014. Lower Ninth Ward Crew of Students working on a house. Summer Staffers Sarah Horton and Megan Tilman (Navy WC Tees on left). And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. - Colossians 3:17 (ESV) Reflection Oh how I give thanks throughout the year: Thank you Lord for the new school year! Thank you Lord for Fall/Spring Break! Thank you Lord for a light hurricane season! Consider yourself blessed if … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Building Thanksgiving