Have you ever found yourself thinking that you would pray more and more often if there were guidelines for how to do it? Or maybe you feel a tug to pray for your students, professors, department, college, or university, but where do you start? One of the biggest falsehoods that hinders our prayer life is the belief that we can never be good enough to ask God for anything. We may think that we do not have the right words, that we are asking for the impossible or because our minds wander we fall short of what we … [Read more...] about Praying in the Academy
Prayer
Prayer for the End of A Challenging Semester
Oh Lord, You know what it is to be weary. You understand what it means to endure in hard circumstances. You carry our burdens as Your own. We come to You in a hard moment. We ask to feel Your mercy soaking into our dry hearts like rain. We ask to hear Your voice calling us to rest and renewal. We ask to taste Your goodness, ever new, like honey on our tongues. Be with us, Lord. Bring from our afflictions an abundant and eternal weight of glory, and transform our difficulties in Your time. Help us to endure. Give … [Read more...] about Prayer for the End of A Challenging Semester
A Prayer for Those Studying the Social Sciences
One major need we have found in our work with ESN: it's often hard to find prayers and devotional material specifically addressed to the life of the Christian serving God in the university. This week we share a prayer for those studying the social sciences by PhD student Jessica Price. Do you want to write a prayer for a specific field area? Submit here to be considered for publication in our upcoming Winter/Spring 2020 series of prayers for those in various academic fields. God, today we offer up the students of … [Read more...] about A Prayer for Those Studying the Social Sciences
A Prayer for Those Studying the Humanities, Fall 2019
Oh Lord, We ask that You would gift those studying the humanities this fall with Your wisdom, Your courage, and Your joy. We ask Your wisdom, oh Holy Spirit! Many students and scholars explore the humanities with the hope of gaining wisdom for their lives and for the good of those around them. Fulfill those hopes this year, and when we are tempted to be hopeless, let us find renewed faith in Your goodness, for and in itself, and also as it is expressed through the imperfect but earnest efforts of human research … [Read more...] about A Prayer for Those Studying the Humanities, Fall 2019
A Prayer for the Busy Scholars
This summer, we're sharing prayers for and by Christian scholars in our network. We hope this is a chance for readers to connect with each other and with God, to be encouraged, and to pray together. May this series remind us of how the church is connected across time and space in the love of Jesus Christ our Lord. Today's prayer is by Brandon Spun, a member of the Emerging Scholars Network and a senior fellow at New College Franklin. A Prayer for the Busy Scholars Our Father, whose sabbath rest is eternal and … [Read more...] about A Prayer for the Busy Scholars