If you're an official member of the Emerging Scholars Network, then you've received my recent end-of-the-year emails. (If you aren't an ESN member, then why not join right now?) These updates share the good news of ESN's recent activities and invite ESN members to contribute to ESN. Last week, I reported the great work going on here at the Emerging Scholars Blog, which you, of course, already know about! Today, I reported on the ministry that my co-blogger Tom Grosh leads in South Central Pennsylvania. So you too can … [Read more...] about Would You Support ESN With An End-of-the-Year Gift?
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What Would You Like to See on the Blog in 2011-12?
July 1 began a new fiscal year for InterVarsity, which for staff means (among other things) it's time for us to look back on the past 12 months and look ahead to the next 12 months. For Tom and me, this will include looking at the Emerging Scholars Blog. As we say in our sidebar: We publish on Tuesdays and Thursdays on topics like academic vocation and calling, spiritual formation in the academy, and the integration of theology with academic disciplines. I can already tell you that we're planning on some new guest … [Read more...] about What Would You Like to See on the Blog in 2011-12?
ESN: “An essential & growing movement”
In follow-up to The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar, below is a word from Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, regarding the value of the Emerging Scholars Network: The Emerging Scholars Network is an essential and growing movement to help support Christian academicians in articulating their field as it is informed by the Christian worldview and to help encourage promising Christian graduate students to become professors. Unless we can increase the boldness of current faculty and … [Read more...] about ESN: “An essential & growing movement”
Searching for the Next Director of Faculty Ministry
Update (6/13/2012): InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is pleased to announce Craig Gartland has agreed to serve as InterVarsity's new Director of Faculty Ministry beginning July 1, 2012. Congrats Craig! Thank-you to all who contributed their input in the process and prayed for our work through this discernment process. A glimpse of Craig's background: Craig joined InterVarsity staff 23 years ago after completing his MDiv at Fuller Theological Seminary. His primary campus experience came at the University of … [Read more...] about Searching for the Next Director of Faculty Ministry
New Schedule and a New Way to Follow ESN
Today, we're announcing a few changes to the Emerging Scholars Blog: We're now going to post twice a week, with Mike posting on Tuesdays and Tom posting on Thursdays. For the time being, we're retiring the Friday Week in Review feature. Instead, we'll be sharing links throughout the week on the ESN Facebook page and on our shiny new ESN Twitter account. You heard me right: Twitter. ESN has now entered the 1st quarter of 2010. If you don't have Twitter, don't worry: the links on Facebook and Twitter are going … [Read more...] about New Schedule and a New Way to Follow ESN