Last night I took the Pew Research Center’s Quiz: See How You Compare to the Millennial Generation (HT: How Millennial Are You? Chronicle of Higher Education, 3/17/2010). I scored a “22” with the below markers on a scale up to “100.” “4” for Silent GenerationRead more…
BioLoguration
What excites Tom most about BioLogos? Hard to top the visual presentation structure and the carefully selected offerings found in the suggested resource section. None-the-less, the weekly thoughts on Science and the Sacred may open new possibilities for much needed visceral,Read more…
Keeping “to-do lists”
Are to-do lists a helpful tool to getting things done? Or do you find them frustratingly long and seemingly insurmountable? Or do you find them buried under papers or in old documents/post-it notes on your screen, wall, door? Or do youRead more…
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
Take a moment sometime today to consider The Real St. Patrick and invite others to do likewise. Looking for some resources? I’d encourage you to start with several Christianity Today articles. If you have additional suggestions, including books to recommend, pleaseRead more…
Preparing for the Lenten Journey
Today’s Fastnacht Day in PA Dutch Country (referred to by other traditions/regions, some with much more enthusiastic traditions, as Fat Tuesday or Shrove Tuesday) and the celebration of it emphasizes stuffing our bodies with wants before entering the sacrificial lock down of theRead more…
This. Is. Jeopardy!
OK, so this doesn’t have anything to do with academia – in fact, I once nearly lost a summer scholarship to Oxford because a professor thought that my interest in quick recall/College Bowl-type competitions would distract me from legitimate academicRead more…
Following Christ 08 resources coming on-line
On InterVarsity’s main website, one can find two articles Honoring God at Work Human Flourishing AND two audio files Why Aren’t We Flourishing? — Opening Plenary by MaryKate Morse, Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at George Fox University. Time:Read more…
Favorite Books of 2008
I enjoyed skimming Mr. Wilson’s Bookshelf: Favorite Books of 2008. Out of his recommendations, The Lost History of Christianity: The Thousand-Year Golden Age of the Church in the Middle East. Africa, and Asia—and How It Died by Philip Jenkins sitsRead more…
Who do you trust? Google and information gathering
How do we find, evaluate, share, and use on-line resources/data? In this morning’s Daily Report from The Chronicle of Higher Education, I came across the post Thinking About Truth, Lies, and the Power of Google. The flow of comments focused upon librarians, the vettingRead more…
What does it mean to observe the Sabbath?
Hope I didn’t catch you (and me) at an awkward time, but are you already thirsting for encouragement in Sabbath-keeping this fall term? As I reflected upon the topic and prayed for the graduate students and faculty with whom I minister, I returned to Calvin College’s helpful Sabbath-keeping resourceRead more…
Links
Science Out in the Open Young scientists making their research results open to the public, challenging the standard means of publishing results, and opening themselves up to criticism. Out in the Open (Boston Globe) (HT: Culture Making) Historically Black CollegesRead more…
The Making of an Economist
In Books & Culture, Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest, reviews the updated The Making of an Economist (Redux), an examination of the country’s best graduate programs in economics and the process by which they “turn a selectRead more…
Links of the Week
Christian Colleges Increase Diversity Inside Higher Ed, citing an analysis from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, notes that a number of colleges affiliated with ESN’s partner, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, have seen a dramatic increaseRead more…