As a public service, we post job openings that may be of interest to our audience. Read on for more details on a position at Sattler College in Boston. PROFESSOR OR ADJUNCT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTER SCIENCE Job Description Sattler CollegeRead more…
Free Webinar Saturday: Jesus, Beginnings, and Science with David and Kate Vosburg
We’re delighted to share that friends of ESN David and Kate Vosburg will be offering a free webinar this Saturday through the Society of Christian Scholars. More detail below. Register here Jesus, Beginnings, and Science Webinar Description David and KateRead more…
A Philosophy Professor Prays for Emerging Writers
Philosophy professor Meghan Sullivan shared this prayer at a gathering of The Augustine Collective. We liked it so much we asked her if we could share it with Christian academics at the ESN blog. At ESN, we love to shareRead more…
Science Corner: A Loaf of Bread, a Container of Milk, and a Unicorn
Unicorn Store, the tale of a frustrated art student offered the opportunity to adopt a unicorn, exists well outside the world of science fiction stories I typically review here. Yet as I watched, it struck me just how much theRead more…
Happy Easter from ESN
He is risen! May you know the joy of Christ’s presence today. We hope the following hymn [Come You Faithful, Raise the Strain] helps you celebrate the risen life of our Savior.Read more…
Entering One Holy Week
Thank you to Kirsten Wagenius for sharing “ONE HOLY WEEK: an Easter journey from palms to persecution to praise” with the Emerging Scholars Network!Read more…
Science Corner: Adding to the Conversation
Highlights from Francis Su’s webinar “The Integration of Faith and the Academic Calling.”Read more…
Spiritual Life As An Academic: The Perpetual Student
Part of the challenge in academia is that my success seems tied to my ‘expertise.’ Read more…
American Scientific Affiliation Annual Meeting
The American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) annual faith/science conference is coming up July 19-22. The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) and ASA have partnered to expand student/early career presence greatly in the last few years, and this time we would love to connect with even more emerging scholars and more experienced mentors.Read more…
The One Thing Needful (Lent 2019)
The mark of a certain kind of genius is the ability and energy to keep returning to the same task relentlessly, imaginatively, curiously, for a lifetime. – Eugene H. Peterson, Run with the HorsesRead more…
North Park University Job Opening: Visiting Professor of Human Anatomy and Physiology
One way we support Christian academics at ESN is to share faculty job openings at Christian colleges and other institutions interested in receiving applications from those in the InterVarsity network. Read on for information on a North Park University visitingRead more…
Spiritual Disciplines for Graduate School
In my role as a campus minister over the last 15 years, I’ve had the privilege of helping students embrace the value of simple, flexible, and defined spiritual disciplines.Read more…
Living Mid-Story (Lent 2019)
If we are going to live appropriately, we must be aware that we are living in the middle of a story that was begun and will be concluded by another. And this other is God. – Eugene H. Peterson, Run with the HorsesRead more…
April 1: Christians in Chemistry Meetup at ACS in Orlando
Christians in Chemistry will gather again informally at the semi-annual meeting of the American Chemical Society, in Orlando, Florida. Read more…
Science Corner: Lent 2019
Since [Pope Francis] is a scientist and a theologian, I thought he would be a good point of reference [on Lenten practice].Read more…
Awe and Humility (Growing Spiritually in the Academic Life Series)
Humble awe brings us back to the original reason we chose to be academics in the first place—an amazing God and an amazing world of knowledge.Read more…
Discipled by One’s Discipline While Growing in Faith
The deeper one gets involved in one’s academic discipline, the more one is shaped by that discipline and discipled into a certain way of being and thinking.Read more…
Heading to Grad School in 2019? Join ESN Connect
Heading to grad school in Fall 2019? Know someone who is? Invite them to our ESN Connect program for connections to local Christian grad school groups, tips on making a strong transition, and a special videochat on how to choose a school and prepare once you’re accepted.Read more…
Faculty and Administrative Job Openings at Trinity Western University
Faculty openings in English, chemistry, political studies, mathematics and computer science, and more. Read more…
Cultivating Humility (Growing Spiritually in the Academic Life Series)
A major “spiritual occupational hazard” for an academic is thinking too much of yourself. This can show itself as pride and arrogance . . .Read more…
Faith and Reason, Part 5: Hume
David Hume (1711–1776) was a Scottish philosopher and historian well known for his arguments against traditional Christian theism that had a great impact on the Enlightenment. Read more…
Call to Faithful Witness in 2019
As we press into the daily grind of 2019, set aside time to join me in checking / resetting our compass by prayerfully considering: Who is this Jesus I / we follow? Is Jesus my / our first love — receiving primary allegiance? Do I / we “trust and obey” — placing hope (short / long term) in Jesus? How do I / we share the love of Jesus with others in our messy context?Read more…
This is not our final destination. . . .
“While we should enjoy God’s good creation, and while we should make the most of our time here, this is not our final destination.” — Paul Louis Metzger, The Gospel of John: When Love Comes to Town Read more…
Equipping Christian Scholars at Urbana 18: The ESN Urbana Fellows Program
One of my [Hannah] most vivid memories of Urbana 15: sitting at a table of emerging scholars passionately discussing what it means to be missional in a humanities field, as the loudspeaker above blared regular announcements such as, “Those in the green area, you should be finishing your salad now. Those in the red area, you should be clearing your tables now.”Read more…