One of my favorite Christmas books is The Other Wise Man, by Henry Van Dyke. Short and delightfully written, the fourth wise man never caught up with the three acclaimed wise men who gave gifts of gold, frankincense, and myrrh to the child Jesus. What a loser, one might even say. I’d like to propose […]
Christ and the Academy
Theology & Podcast Launches Today!
The Emerging Scholars Network is delighted to announce the launch today of a new podcast, Theology &. Many of our members have expressed interest in more theologically grounded conversations about faith and issues in our fields of study. We are delighted to co-sponsor this new effort toward that end. ____________________ Does academic research make a difference […]
Will You Wrestle With God?
We are excited to share the story of Dr. Wai Jia Tam, who is a graduate of the Public Health Program at Johns Hopkins. We are thankful both to Wai Jia and Bill Nelson, GFM Staff at Johns Hopkins for putting us in touch with Wai Jia. We hope it will encourage you to “wrestle […]
Habits of Incarnational Presence: Two Campus Stories
For this final post in this series on the Habits of an Incarnational Presence, we asked two of our GFM staff, Tim Wang (University of Texas – Austin) and Greg Ehlert (University of California – San Diego) to give us a brief snapshot of how they have experienced the principles of Incarnational Presence in their […]
INCARNATIONAL PRESENCE: PARTICIPATION IN THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES
This week in our Practices of Incarnational Presence series, we come to the third of the “social imaginaries” that shape Incarnational Presence on our campuses. The imaginary is the jazz ensemble, listening together to the “heavenly music” and then entering in. By Julian M. Reese with Teresa Hooper “Then Illuvatar said to [the Ainur], ‘Of […]