Read Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 I have tried to use this blog series to draw attention to the long train of pivotal, often harrowing decisions that wannabe-scholars must make on their way from interested college student to professor. In every choice we make along the rocky road of graduate education—not just in our choice of advisor, dissertation topic and research community, but in the all communities and cultural movements we join outside of our workspace—we are ultimately making decisions that construct the … [Read more...] about Finding our Voice; Building our Megaphone
Public Intellectuals
Wisdom Chaser: Insights on Parent-Child Relationships
When I returned from InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Graduate & Faculty Team Meetings, I found my family wanting me 24/7, at least for a few days ;-) In my brief moments of spare time, I picked up Wisdom Chaser: Finding My Father at 14,000 Feet (Nathan Foster. InterVarsity Press. 2010). In Wisdom Chaser, Nathan relates the story of his strained relationship with his famous father, i.e., Richard Foster, academic/teacher and author of several spiritual formation books including Celebration of Discipline. … [Read more...] about Wisdom Chaser: Insights on Parent-Child Relationships
Tom Sine asks about Easter
HT to Christine Sine who posted Tom Sine is Blogging (April 13, 2010). Looking forward to Tom's entering of the blogosphere ;-) His first question is with regard to what difference Easter/the resurrection is making in our troubled world, not just our personal lives. To show that ESN's thinking about this question, I shared some material from Amish Grace and Recognizing the Messiah. What comments/thoughts do you have to share? PS. Wish I could point to a post on Desiring the Kingdom of God (James K. A. … [Read more...] about Tom Sine asks about Easter
Anonymity as the Way?
Do you agree with the below quotes from News Sites Rethink Anonymous Online Comments (Richard Perez-Pena. NY Times. 4/11/2010)? “Anonymity is just the way things are done. It's an accepted part of the Internet, but there's no question that people hide behind anonymity to make vile or controversial comments,” said Arianna Huffington, a founder of The Huffington Post. “I feel that this is almost like an education process. As the rules of the road are changing and the Internet is growing up, the trend is away … [Read more...] about Anonymity as the Way?
Emotional education through the season of Advent
In The Other Education (NY Times Opinion, November 26, 2009), David Brooks comments: For reasons having to do with the peculiarities of our civilization, we pay a great deal of attention to our scholastic educations, which are formal and supervised, and we devote much less public thought to our emotional educations, which are unsupervised and haphazard. This is odd, since our emotional educations are much more important to our long-term happiness and the quality of our lives. Bruce Springsteen serves as one of Brooks' … [Read more...] about Emotional education through the season of Advent