We are very excited to announce our upcoming ESN Conversations for the next three months and wanted to let you know so you could get these on your calendar. February 10, 2022: Faithful Antiracism. We will be joined by Chad Brennan, who is coordinator of the Race, Religion, and Justice Project, and founder of Renew Partnerships, a Christian research and consulting ministry that focuses on diversity and race in faith-based organizations. Also joining us is Christina Barland Edmondson. She is a higher education … [Read more...] about February through April ESN Conversations.
Resources for ESN Members
New Society Inspiring Christian Scholars in Public Universities
Omar Montero teaches architecture and design at Buenos Aires University, Argentina's premier institution of higher learning. When he heard about the Society of Christian Scholars, he said, only somewhat facetiously, “I thought I was the only Christian scholar in the secular academic world! I had no idea that there were so many believing academics in secular institutions.” Omar was so encouraged by this discovery that he committed his life to fulfilling the challenge expressed by Christian historian George Marsden in … [Read more...] about New Society Inspiring Christian Scholars in Public Universities
Have You Discovered ESN’s YouTube Channel?
A little over two years ago, before the pandemic, ESN launched our ESN Conversations, monthly conversations with scholars about the intersection of faith and scholarship. Over 400 people have participated in conversations. The early conversations weren't recorded, mostly due to legal reasons, but also to give us a chance to learn how to do this. By July of 2020, we had worked out those issues and began, with an interview of Elaine Howard Ecklund, to post these interviews on our newly created Emerging Scholars Network … [Read more...] about Have You Discovered ESN’s YouTube Channel?
Event Announcement: ESN Conversation – Struggling With Evangelicalism
Most of us who in some way identify as "evangelical" are struggling, whether we use this as a descriptor or affirm some of its historical theological distinctives. Some of us have left and some are thinking about it. Some of us have personally been impacted while others of us have witnessed injustices, the abuse of power, and other patterns of wrongdoing inconsistent with the gospel of Jesus. Even among those of us who have "stayed," perhaps because of positive factors in our own context, we wonder whether the label … [Read more...] about Event Announcement: ESN Conversation – Struggling With Evangelicalism
Seminary Now: How Do We Reconcile Science and the Bible on Origins?
We wanted to pass along from our partners at Seminary Now a preview of John Walton's course on The Lost World of Genesis One. Also, for a limited time, Seminary Now is offering up to a 50 percent discount on their courses! Consider signing up for this course or another as something to do over semester break! In his Seminary Now course based on the book The Lost World of Genesis One (InterVarsity Press), Bible scholar John Walton argues that Genesis was never intended to answer modern scientific questions about … [Read more...] about Seminary Now: How Do We Reconcile Science and the Bible on Origins?