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
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Healing through the ESN Steam Grant Project
When I was approached to lead conversations with graduate students about science and faith topics as part of the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) STEAM grant project, I accepted with a good deal of hesitation. I had grown up with a narrative of science and Christianity being in conflict, had no resources for resolving that narrative as an undergraduate chemistry major, and became totally exhausted of the topic by the time I was starting my graduate school journey. Things were no different by the time I graduated and … [Read more...] about Healing through the ESN Steam Grant Project
Faith Across The Multiverse Book Club Event
Beginning September 30th, join us for a grand conversation on Faith across the Multiverse: Parables from Modern Science with author, Andy Walsh. Yes, that's the weekly ESN science blogger! Since Andy's part of our network, I thought I'd ask him a few quick questions: … [Read more...] about Faith Across The Multiverse Book Club Event
Author Interview: David Russell Mosley
We caught up with ESN blog author David Russell Mosley to learn about the two books he has released in the past year or so. We hope you enjoy hearing about David's recent publications. You can also browse his ESN posts here. 1. ESN: Would you give a brief description of your novel and your nonfiction book? David: Absolutely! I'll start with the novel: My novel, On the Edges of Elfland, is about a young man named Alfred Perkins. He grew up in a small English village called Carlisle where his godfather, Mr. … [Read more...] about Author Interview: David Russell Mosley
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)