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.â€â€ — Mary Poplin. Finding Calcutta. Accessed 8/15/2011, 2:44 pm.
The power, encouragement, and challenge of the testimony of a professor coming to follow Christ through the transformation of head, heart & hands rings throughout Finding Calcutta. As such, the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) blog frequently highlights Poplin’s story and insights, click here. To whet your appetite, take four minutes to take in  the below Veritas Forum clip AND pass along to others whom you think would have interest.
If you don’t have a local/campus book discussion which you’re a part of this fall, I encourage you to gather some friends, start one up, and share your group’s thoughts with us on-line [series starts next Thursday (9/15)]. As an individual and/or group, please feel free to respond to/wrestle with one, some, or all the questions raised. You’re also more than welcome to ask your own 🙂 More on Mary Poplin and the genesis of the series below.
Note: Series starts with Finding Calcutta: Where am I now? Is this my calling?
Update: 11/2/2011. 10:52 AM. [Read more…] about An invitation to discuss “Finding Calcutta” by Mary Poplin