When I was seventeen, a family friend warned me to be careful with my plans to study English literature at university: "A lot of people lose their faith." It wasn't that the church environment I grew up in was anti-intellectual or suspicious of higher education per se. Many members were well educated professionals; there were one or two academics, though their work life tended to be regarded with benign bemusement. But this friend's comment communicated the sense that plunging too deeply into the secular humanities was … [Read more...] about Through the Lens of Faith: Studying Literature in the Communion of Saints
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Author Interview: James Ungureanu, Historian of Science
One of our goals at ESN is to support Christian academics in their scholarly writing and publishing, so we love to highlight publications by ESN writers as we can. This fall University of Pittsburgh Press is releasing James Ungureanu's new scholarly book. We greatly appreciated Dr. Ungureanu's work for ESN's new faith and science study guide, and we're delighted to present this interview about his new full length book. Book: Science, Religion, and the Protestant Tradition: Retracing the Origins of … [Read more...] about Author Interview: James Ungureanu, Historian of Science
Teaching As Relationship (Teaching Tips)
ESN continues its Spring 2017 series on Teaching Tips with this post by history graduate student Joshua Shiver. See his other work for the blog here. Last summer I was given the opportunity to teach my first college-level class: a senior-level lecture course on the history of the American Civil War and Reconstruction. I frankly wasn't that nervous and I went into the course thinking that my job consisted of a simple two-step process where I simply downloaded information into my students' brains and then … [Read more...] about Teaching As Relationship (Teaching Tips)
Academic rigor springing from faith
http://vimeo.com/17784162 Faculty Stories - Austin Busch offers a taste of academic rigor springing from the faith of and being shared by an Associate Professor of Early World Literature at SUNY Brockport, even when looking at the Bible. To God be the glory! … [Read more...] about Academic rigor springing from faith
Time to “Uncover”
http://vimeo.com/22363437 InterVarsity Alum: Dr. Lendol Calder on "Uncoverage" is an apt video for us as we begin a new term, asking ourselves how we dialog (dare I even say provide a framework for studies in a particular discipline) and learn from (or even teach as) "the experts". Yes, I think this perspective is applicable beyond the field of history :) Stay tuned . . . … [Read more...] about Time to “Uncover”