How are you each doing on this scholar’s journey? How are your hearts, minds, souls, and bodies? How are your communities? Where are you heading? While walking parts of this journey over the years myself and alongside others, I know how lonely and overwhelming it can be when it doesn’t seem as if your department or committee is truly hearing you, and your family and friends don’t understand why you’re even on this path. I also know the joy of breakthroughs as new ideas form and come to life through reading, … [Read more...] about Joining the Journey
Resources for ESN Members
Sinai and Synapses: Loving the Lord with all my mind and my neighbor as myself
One very clear memory from my freshman year of college is of a Sunday afternoon that I spent in the library trying to learn the details about the oxidative-phosphorylation, one chemical pathway in mitochondria (i.e., the powerhouse of the cell). I spent hours sitting with my notebook, pen, and biology textbook trying to figure out how all the pieces fit together. My initial motivation was trying to understand enough to pass the test I had the next day. But puzzling through the processes involved in passing electrons … [Read more...] about Sinai and Synapses: Loving the Lord with all my mind and my neighbor as myself
Join us on 2/24: Online Chat about Christian Scholars Foundation Legacy Grant
Are you an early career faculty person? Interested in applying to the 2024 Christian Scholars Foundation Legacy Grant? Know someone who might be? Join us on Sat 2/24 at 11am EST/10 CST/9 MST/8 PST! Hear from the 2023 Awardee Dr. George Montañez, and chat with members of the 2024 Grant Committee. We have made some changes to the application for clarity and timeline purposes. They are very much in the spirit of the grant's tradition of flexible support for the research of early career Christian scholars, and we … [Read more...] about Join us on 2/24: Online Chat about Christian Scholars Foundation Legacy Grant
Summer 2023 ESN Conversations
At least for some, the summer is a time with a little extra bandwidth. Time for vacations, catching up on research, reading a good book, or just sitting out on a lounge chair with a cool drink. At the Emerging Scholars Network, we also believe that stimulating conversation around the intersection of our faith and the concerns of our personal, academic, and societal lives can be refreshing and renewing. And one of the things we love best about these conversations is not only that they are live but that you have the … [Read more...] about Summer 2023 ESN Conversations
Spring 2023 ESN Conversations
Our crocuses and daffodils are up after an unusually warm February. While it was fun to be out in short sleeves (in Central Ohio), this also just didn't seem right. It makes me interested in what our guest for our March ESN Conversation will have to say. But with spring's early approach, I also thought it would be fun to share with you our whole line up for ESN Conversations. We have some outstanding guests joining us. Here's the schedule with links to register today. ESN Conversation: Following Jesus in a Warming … [Read more...] about Spring 2023 ESN Conversations