This post is the first in a projected six-part series revealing the gifts Christians from other countries bring to our American campus communities and churches. The American church suffers historic declines in participation and credibility. The losses would be even greater absent the steady growth of religious groups drawing large numbers of immigrants. Meanwhile, Christianity booms overseas. The fastest-growing Christian communities are in more populous non-Western countries.[1] With the U.S. home to more … [Read more...] about Global Gifts: A Declaration of Dependence
Science Corner
A Call for Book Reviews
Summer is approaching and it is a great time to kick back with a good book. Over the years, ESN has included reviews of books broadly focusing on the intersection of Christian faith and academic life. If you are reading or have read something that fits that, we'd love to post your review to let other Emerging Scholars members know about the book. Here's what we suggest: We like to work with an upper limit of 1500 words, so this would not be the kind of in-depth review you would submit to a journal. Generally, we … [Read more...] about A Call for Book Reviews
Emerging Scholars Network Summer Book Club
I don't know about you, but summer is a great time for me to catch up on books I'd like to read, including significant Christian books that help me understand the faith more deeply and connect it to my life. This summer, the Emerging Scholars Network would like to help with that. Carmen Joy Imes is a professor of Old Testament at Biola University and author of Bearing God's Name: Why Sinai Still Matters (IVP 2019). She is also the popular host of Torah Tuesday, where she shares about her research in the first five … [Read more...] about Emerging Scholars Network Summer Book Club
Science Corner: Seeing Infrared
Telescopes have been troublemakers for centuries. They've revealed that the Earth is not the center of the universe, not even the center of the solar system. They showed us our sun was just one of many stars in our galaxy, then showed us our galaxy is just one of many in the universe. They provided the evidence that the universe is expanding, which in turn implied the beginning of the universe in the Big Bang. Now the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is adding wrinkles to our understanding of how those galaxies formed … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Seeing Infrared
A Prayer for Adjuncts and Contingent Faculty
Over the years, ESN has published prayers for various field areas and seasons of academic life. From searching the archives, this appears to be the first (and long overdue) time we have posted a prayer for adjunct and contingent faculty. Thank you, Ciara Reyes-Ton, for sharing this prayer! Thank you, God, for the opportunity we have to serve our students and institutions of higher learning. Whatever the circumstances that have brought us to our current position of contingency, whether we are working towards a more … [Read more...] about A Prayer for Adjuncts and Contingent Faculty