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Transitions

Encountering God in the Liminality of Graduate School, Part 2

June 23, 2017 by Scott Santibanez Leave a Comment

In the first part  of a two-part reflection, Scott Santibanez shared some theological reflections on the liminal space of graduate school. In Part 2, he shares some of his own story.   It was 1991, during the summer between my first and second years of medical school. I was in the basement of a Christian clinic in Times Square. The clinic provided free medical care for homeless people in New York City. I was filling up a tub with warm soapy water so one of our homeless clients could soak his feet. And I loved doing … [Read more...] about Encountering God in the Liminality of Graduate School, Part 2

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Transitions Tagged With: aids, graduate school, liminal space, listening, medical school, New York City, transitions

Living in Transition (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 3)

June 18, 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 continues his Scholar's Compass … [Read more...] about Living in Transition (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 3)

Filed Under: Devotional, Scholar's Compass, Transitions Tagged With: devotional, Scholar's Compass, Scholar's Compass Transitions Series, transitions

Encountering God in the Liminality of Graduate School, Part 1

June 16, 2017 by Scott Santibanez Leave a Comment

I once had a seminary professor who liked to talk about something he called liminality. The term comes from the Latin word limens, which means “threshold.” Liminal space is a place of transition, of waiting and not knowing. People who are in liminal space exist in the threshold between their previous life and a new one. “It is the doorway or portal between statuses,” anthropologist Jack David Eller writes, “the road that links the origin and destination.”[1] With its years of training and preparation, graduate school … [Read more...] about Encountering God in the Liminality of Graduate School, Part 1

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Transitions Tagged With: graduate school, Jack David Eller, liminal space, Richard Rohr, Stephen Hoke, transitions, William David Taylor

“Where You Go, God Is” (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 2)

June 11, 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 continues his Scholar's Compass … [Read more...] about “Where You Go, God Is” (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 2)

Filed Under: Devotional, Scholar's Compass, Transitions Tagged With: devotional, Scholar's Compass, Scholar's Compass Transitions Series, transitions

Reshaped, Reworked, and Redeemed (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017)

June 4, 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 begins his Scholar's Compass series … [Read more...] about Reshaped, Reworked, and Redeemed (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017)

Filed Under: Devotional, Scholar's Compass, Transitions Tagged With: devotional, Scholar's Compass, Scholar's Compass Transitions Series, transitions

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