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The Faculty Roundtable at Ohio State: Finding Hope Amid Suffering

April 15, 2024 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

Imagine faculty on your university gathering across disciplinary and religious lines to discuss important questions common to the human experience. On March 22, over a hundred faculty and other guests gathered to do just that over dinner at the Ohio State University's Faculty Club, preceded by a reception. University Provost Karla Zadnik opened the evening with a warm welcome expressing interest in the topic of suffering and learning from one another how we engage this common human experience. Our main speaker for … [Read more...] about The Faculty Roundtable at Ohio State: Finding Hope Amid Suffering

Filed Under: Love Your Campus Tagged With: Campus Reports, Faculty Roundtables

A Case Study in Witness: Ruth in 21C

February 23, 2024 by Rick Mattson Leave a Comment

We appreciate Rick Mattson sharing this excerpt from Witness In The Academy: a guide for graduate students, faculty, and those who minister with them. Rick will be joining ESN in a live conversation about our witness in the academy Thursday February 29 at 8 pm ET. We'd love for you to join us by signing up at tinyurl.com/ESNWitness. As a speaker and trainer for InterVarsity’s Graduate Faculty Ministries (GFM), I find myself frequently on airplanes as I travel to campuses around the country. One afternoon on a flight … [Read more...] about A Case Study in Witness: Ruth in 21C

Filed Under: Christian Witness in the Academy, Love Your Campus Tagged With: evangelism

Students and Faculty Gather for Prayer at Iowa State University

October 9, 2023 by Ann Smiley Leave a Comment

We were delighted to receive this report about students, faculty and staff gathering in prayer for the campus of Iowa State University. Might God be moving in similar ways on your campus? During the spring and summer of 2021, Professor Ann Smiley (Kinesiology), Lori Adams (Fellowship of Christian Athletes staff), Chad Britten (InterVarsity Staff) and Dr. Tom Ingebritsen (InterVarsity Staff) were prayer walking on campus. Dr. Smiley shared a vision she had of students and faculty praying and worshiping God together on … [Read more...] about Students and Faculty Gather for Prayer at Iowa State University

Filed Under: Love Your Campus, Prayer Tagged With: Campus Reports, Student and Faculty Prayer

Loving the University: Engaging the Big Questions on Your Campus

February 20, 2023 by James K. A. Smith Leave a Comment

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This talk was the opening keynote for the Veritas Weekend 2023 sponsored by the Veritas Forum. The Emerging Scholars Network thanks James K. A. Smith for sharing the text of that talk for our blog readers. Our theme for this weekend is Loving the University. This framing of our time together is specific and intentional. We are considering how to love the university. Not just love for university students (though of course that's included!) but loving the university as an institution. Loving the university is … [Read more...] about Loving the University: Engaging the Big Questions on Your Campus

Filed Under: Love Your Campus, The Four Loves Tagged With: Challenges, Despair and hope, Participant, truth, wonder

New ESN Reading Lists: Career Stages & Four Faculty Loves

February 2, 2022 by ESN Announce Leave a Comment

New ESN Reading Lists Are you looking for a quick guide to some of our key starting point resources here at the ESN blog? We've designed a resource page that offers some great starting points for each career stage, and for InterVarsity's Four Faculty Loves. Browse these if you're looking for individual reading or small group conversation starters. We hope they'll serve as great starting points to exploring our rich archive of reflections by and for Christian scholars too. We're proud of the wonderful … [Read more...] about New ESN Reading Lists: Career Stages & Four Faculty Loves

Filed Under: Career Stages, Faculty, Graduate Studies, Love God and One Another, Love Our World, Love Your Academic Discipline, Love Your Campus, Post-Graduate, Reading Lists, The Four Loves, Undergraduate Studies Tagged With: Career Stages, New ESN Reading Lists January 2022, The Four Faculty Loves

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