With our limited time, energy, finances, blog attention spans, why focus on Mary Poplin's Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service (IVP. 2008)? My struggle to write this book, to tell the truth about Mother Teresa, and my struggles in the university are a testimony both to a lost public conversation and to a worldview that is very difficult for many in Western culture to comprehend fully, even some of us who profess Christ.”” -- Mary Poplin. Finding Calcutta. Accessed … [Read more...] about An invitation to discuss “Finding Calcutta” by Mary Poplin
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‘The Dying God Myth’ & the Inklings
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zt_rMtKhPuo&=300 Promotional Video for Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel. In Chapter 7 of Looking for the King: An Inklings Novel (Ignatius Press. 2010), David C. Downing (R.W. Schlosser Professor of English at Elizabethtown College, PA, & C.S. Lewis Scholar who has written several books for InterVarsity Press) provides a captivating, lively and creative envisioning of Inklings conversation. Last night as I was reading and discussing Chapter 7 with one of daughters, I … [Read more...] about ‘The Dying God Myth’ & the Inklings
After Shock: Campus Questions
Do you find it hard or easy to discuss the big questions about God? Explain. Kent writes that his search is for "honest faith." Do you ever encounter in yourself or in others something that seems like less-than-honest faith? How would you define "honest faith"? -- From the Reading Group Guide for Kent Annan's After Shock: Searching for Honest Faith When Your World Is Shaken (InterVarsity Press. 131 - 133). I wasn't intending to read After Shock (Kent Annan. IVP. 2011) through Lent, but the intensity of Kent's … [Read more...] about After Shock: Campus Questions
ESN: “An essential & growing movement”
In follow-up to The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar, below is a word from Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, regarding the value of the Emerging Scholars Network: The Emerging Scholars Network is an essential and growing movement to help support Christian academicians in articulating their field as it is informed by the Christian worldview and to help encourage promising Christian graduate students to become professors. Unless we can increase the boldness of current faculty and … [Read more...] about ESN: “An essential & growing movement”
The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar
Over the course of the next several days, I have the privilege of working with Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, as she speaks for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship at a number of locations: Pittsburgh, PA (2/25-26), South Central PA (2/27-3/1), and Baltimore (3/2). In preparation for this project, which involves numerous partners, I took time to prayerfully consider, dig into, and reflect upon: Along the Way: The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar … [Read more...] about The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar