Do you ever feel like you have two jobs, excelling in your field and figuring out how it all relates to your calling to follow Christ? At ESN, we work hard to support Christian academics in bringing the two together. ESN Director Bob Trube reflects on this key challenge/opportunity for Christian scholars in Director's Corner, our occasional ESN blog series where Bob distills his observations and offers ideas and resources to encourage our readers. Few of us like the idea of double work. Yet it has been suggested … [Read more...] about Director’s Corner: Meeting the Challenge of Double Work
Academics as Mission
New Series: Why I Appreciate Christian Scholars
This spring semester, ESN is delighted to introduce a new occasional series, "Why I Appreciate Christian Scholars." In this series, we'll hear from believers in many vocations and walks of life who want to share an encouraging word on why they value the work of Christians in academic vocations. We launch the series today with a reflection and prayer by Gary Anderson, a Gordon-Conwell seminary student and Park Street Church pastoral intern with a background in business. “In everything set them an example by … [Read more...] about New Series: Why I Appreciate Christian Scholars
Giving Thanks: Serving Over 400 Emerging Scholars at Urbana
As we plan for 2016, we're deeply heartened by the way emerging scholars participated in the 2015 Urbana Student Missions Conference. We're filled with excitement as we work on ways to provide more mentoring, conferencing, and communal conversation for members in 2016. Stay tuned for more on that, but in the meantime give thanks with us for: … [Read more...] about Giving Thanks: Serving Over 400 Emerging Scholars at Urbana
Partner with ESN: Urbana 2015
The Faithful Is Successful ESN series. Friendships connecting Christian scholars from the West Coast, the Midwest, the Southeast, and the Northeast. Missional conversations among Christians at secular universities across the United States. What do all these have in common? They're all brought about partly by God's work at Urbana 2012. AND Urbana 2015 is growing into the best Urbana yet for Christian academics living missionally in the secular academy. Through connections created or sustained by Urbana 2012, the … [Read more...] about Partner with ESN: Urbana 2015
On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love
Inspired by a response to The Urban Resident's series on Christian Personal Statement and building upon my conversation with Mary Poplin regarding Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews? (InterVarsity Press, 2014), I asked Mary to share a personal statement that describes her calling/vocation as a Christian professor in a secular university. May you find these words an encouragement as you seek the Lord's insight in articulating, bearing the marks of, embodying the call to be a … [Read more...] about On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love