Thank you so much for your response to our academic devotional survey last week! We're thrilled to have so many graduate students and faculty participating already, from a wide variety of institutions including state and private universities, engineering institutions, and universities in the UK and Australia. Thanks so much to everyone who participated so far. We'll be in touch soon! If you haven't filled out the survey yet, we'd love to hear your thoughts. Soon, the devotional needs a name. Here's a list of some … [Read more...] about Help ESN Choose a Devotional Name
ESN Devotional Project
Help ESN Create a Devotional for Scholars
The Emerging Scholars Network is launching an exciting new writing/community building project [Scholar's Compass launched Fall 2014], and we'd love for you to participate. If you're interested, please fill out the survey below or drop us an email. Many Christian scholars struggle to link their faith and their academic callings: it's hard to find time to reflect, and sometimes hard to find a community excited to integrate faith and academic vocation. InterVarsity's new project will build a community of Christian … [Read more...] about Help ESN Create a Devotional for Scholars
Learning Prayer from George Herbert
The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood. – Description of prayer from George Herbert's poem Prayer (I) Reflection I certainly didn't expect it. If someone had told me that a seventeenth-century poem called Prayer would capture the imaginations of my undergraduate British literature class, I'd have chuckled gently. My students that semester were thoughtful and full of goodwill, but they didn't seem extraordinarily … [Read more...] about Learning Prayer from George Herbert