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Sign Up for 4/5/22: Preparing for Graduate School Online Event

March 26, 2022 by Hannah Eagleson Leave a Comment

Sign up today at bit.ly/gradprep422 We're delighted to present a panel on getting ready for graduate school. Please join us or invite students or friends.   ​​Preparing for Graduate School Spiritually & Practically   Tuesday April 5 @  8-9pmEDT/7pm CDT/6pm MDT/5pm PDT Are you starting graduate school this fall or considering it for the future? Would you like to know how to thrive in grad school? Join us to hear tips on adjusting to the workload, finding community, and flourishing in graduate … [Read more...] about Sign Up for 4/5/22: Preparing for Graduate School Online Event

Filed Under: Resources for ESN Members, Tips for Grad School, Transitions

Remembering the Sabbath (Growing Spiritually in Academic Life Series)

November 11, 2018 by Robert Kaita Leave a Comment

In our goal of supporting early career Christian academics, we like to crowdsource short tips on important ways of thriving as we follow Christ in the university. This fall, we've launched a new series of tips on growing spiritually in academia. Physics researcher Bob Kaita brings us a meditation on Sabbath today, adapted from a brief encouragement he shared with the Princeton InterVarsity Graduate Christian group at the beginning of the semester. We hope it will encourage you whether you read it now as we approach … [Read more...] about Remembering the Sabbath (Growing Spiritually in Academic Life Series)

Filed Under: Advice for Entering Graduate School, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: sabbath, Scripture, tips for the academic's spiritual life

Consider the Ravens (Scholar’s Compass)

November 26, 2017 by Elsie Lee Leave a Comment

Reading: Luke 12:22-24 Then Jesus said to his disciples: “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat; or about your body, what you will wear. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothes. Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!” … [Read more...] about Consider the Ravens (Scholar’s Compass)

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Post-Graduate, Scholar's Compass, Transitions Tagged With: Career Stages, Post-Graduate, Scholar's Compass, transition

Leaving Academia, Part 1

July 1, 2017 by Joshua Wu 3 Comments

Leaving academia is hard and difficult. In this new short series on “Leaving the Academy”, I hope my experiences will encourage you as you explore and wrestle with God's calling for your life as you transition to a perhaps unplanned non-academic career. Editor's note: For more of Josh Wu's work for ESN, see this link.   For the better part of a decade, my life ambition was to become a professor. I was confident that hard work and a few providential breaks would land me a tenure-track political science professor … [Read more...] about Leaving Academia, Part 1

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Post-Graduate, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, higher education, identity, leaving academia, liminal space, non-academic jobs, Post-Graduate, transitions, work

Living in the Moment (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 4)

June 25, 2017 by Christian Brady Leave a Comment

Scholar's Compass is our ongoing online devotional for academics.  In it, we ask authors to write about how their academic vocations and their lives as followers of Christ fit together in a simple format: A quote from Scripture or a Christian author, a reflection, a question to think about, and a prayer. Since we launched the series in 2014, Scholar's Compass has been one of our most widely read features. You can browse the whole series here. In this post, ESN author Christian Brady wraps up his Scholar's Compass series … [Read more...] about Living in the Moment (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 4)

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Devotional, Scholar's Compass, Transitions Tagged With: devotional, Scholar's Compass, Scholar's Compass Transitions Series, transitions

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