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Following Christ 2008

Validation

January 16, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Statement:  (Y)ou are great.  You are amazing! Response:  No one has ever said that about me before. Some lines from the short film Validation (16:23).  Have you watched it?  Some reflections below.

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Filed Under: About ESN, Christ and the Academy, Following Christ 2008, Mentoring, Resources for ESN Members Tagged With: big questions, fc08, following christ, Mentoring, mentors, vocation

Human Flourishing in the Church and the World

January 7, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson No Comments

As part of my work at Following Christ 2008, I had the privilege of assisting the Humanities track, chaired by Michael Murray and Dora Rice Hawthorne, and joined by Mark Noll of Notre Dame, Hal Bush of St. Louis U., and Paul Moser of Loyola U. Chicago. The final session of the track addressed the […]

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Following Christ 08 resources coming on-line

January 3, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

On InterVarsity’s main website, one can find two articles Honoring God at Work Human Flourishing AND two audio files Why Aren’t We Flourishing? — Opening Plenary by MaryKate Morse, Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at George Fox University. Time: 35:00 Powerful Faith — Seminar presentation by Michael Lindsay, a sociologist at Rice University and […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Following Christ 2008, Life in the Academy, Links, The University Tagged With: academic culture, big questions, fc08, fear, human flourishing, Links, power

Following Christ mostly, or misplaced objections

January 2, 2009 by carsten 1 Comment

Listening to the Day Ahead speakers, it occurred to me that we were focusing mostly on sacrificing time, energy, even the privacy of homes as professors who seek to serve students, but I heard little about issues of wealth. Jesus of course spoke over and over about issues of money but these concerns did not […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Following Christ 2008 Tagged With: Faculty, fc08, professor, self-denial, wealth

Evangelism and caution in the professor-student relationship?

December 30, 2008 by carsten 3 Comments

After listening to Professor Ken Elzinga of the University of Virginia on ways to evangelize on and off campus “without turning people off,” I came away both excited and with questions. I am a first year professor at Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit institution where Christian faith (and probably other faiths as well) can […]

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