Hannah, Thank-you for offering this letter of encouragement! The faculty with whom I shared your words at Mentoring over the Long Term: Crafting Conversations, a seminar co-led with Terry Gustafson (OSU, Chemistry Professor) at the 2014 MidWest Faculty Conference on The Ends and Goals of Higher Education in Twenty-First-Century America: Change and the Calling of the Christian Educator, were very appreciative. I look forward to posting material from the seminar in order to create a toolkit for those seeking to dig more … [Read more...] about ESN Mentoring Letter — MidWest Faculty Conference
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“Christian Faculty Mentoring Students” Resources
Christian Faculty Mentoring Students and Beyond Academics: Kelly Arispe and Spanish Linguistics are two of several excellent resources for Faculty Ministry. As you may guess, I'm really excited about the growing bank of resources focused on gathering students and faculty together. Yes, another subtle plug for what has been referred to as Dinner Table Conversations :-) Read, share, discuss, brainstorm on summer/fall gatherings for conversation/storytelling/mentoring. . . . For additional material visit … [Read more...] about “Christian Faculty Mentoring Students” Resources
Book Review: Transformative Conversations
I have not only previously referred to Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education by Peter Felten, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Aaron Kheriaty, and Edward Taylor (Jossey-Bass, 2013), but also Bob Trube's review of it (see Reclaiming Conversations?). None-the-less this is such a significant topic and resource for Faculty Ministry/Emerging Scholars Network (FM/ESN), I wanted to be sure to highlight Bob's review as InterVarsity's Faculty Ministry Leadership Team (FMLT) … [Read more...] about Book Review: Transformative Conversations
Can Science ‘Explain Away’ Religion?
In Chapter 18 of Minds, Brains, Souls and Gods: A Conversation on Faith, Psychology and Neuroscience (InterVarsity Press, 2013), Malcolm Jeeves[1] discusses the question “Can Science ‘Explain Away' Religion?” with his fictional psychology student "mentee". Have you wrestled with this question? How have you addressed it? Do you concur with what Jeeves offers? Can Science “Explain Away” Religion? Malcolm, Your emails have pointed out that the same evidence is often interpreted in very different ways. For example, … [Read more...] about Can Science ‘Explain Away’ Religion?
Reclaiming Conversations?
"Reclaiming conversations, that's the next frontier." -- Sherry Turkle's [1] concluding line to her TEDxUIUC 2011 presentation Alone Together. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtLVCpZIiNs This morning David O'Hara's Can I Ask Questions In Church? [2] spurred me to read Jaweed Kaleem's Keeping Alive The Big Questions [3]. In Kaleem's resource rich article I once again came across Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of the Social Studies of Science and Technology in the Program in Science, … [Read more...] about Reclaiming Conversations?