To add to Mike's LAST Week in Review: ESN at Urbana 09, below are a few pictures and some of my joys of serving Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) at Urbana 09. What a joy to ... serve a nearly continuous stream of Urbana 09 delegates, including a number of international students and several faculty, at the ESN table. As Mike noted, we received over 150 registrations. Why the interest in the table, the reception, and the seminar? Many students (not to mention postdocs and young faculty) continuing in … [Read more...] about More on ESN at Urbana 09
Urbana 09
LAST Week in Review: ESN at Urbana 09
Tom and I have been busy recuperating from our week at Urbana 09, so there won't be any Week in Review this week. Instead, we're each going to share some highlights of our experience. If you were there, we hope that we were able to make contact. If you weren't there, you can watch videos of many of the speakers and other main session performers at the Urbana website. So, what did the Emerging Scholars Network do at Urbana 09? Serving Christ as a Professor: More than 250 students —mostly undergraduates —attended my … [Read more...] about LAST Week in Review: ESN at Urbana 09
What Is Integration?
Our conversations with hundreds of Emerging Scholars at Urbana 09 precluded us from keeping up with our readings. But don't worry, we'll catch up as soon as our plane lands ;-) In its place, 1. swing by our Facebook page to see a few pictures of Emerging Scholars at Urbana 09. Note: more coming. 2. enjoy the kick-off of a series of quotes from Education for Human Flourishing: A Christian Perspective (Paul D. Spears and Steven R. Loomis, InterVarsity Press, 2009),* by considering an excerpt from the … [Read more...] about What Is Integration?
Topics for 2010?
In my longer conversations with students and faculty at Urbana 09*, I've asked How can the ESN blog best serve you in 2010? What are some topics you'd like to see receive attention, or more attention? Below you'll find some of the responses I've received. What are your thoughts? Feel free to list several topics and give them an order of priority. Note: The big picture of what guides our posts can be found here. How does one transition from undergrad to grad? What should I be sure to read/know to … [Read more...] about Topics for 2010?
ESN at Urbana 09
Tom and I are both at Urbana 09 all week, serving as staff at InterVarsity's 22nd student missions conference. If you're here in St. Louis, join us at the seminar and receptions hosted by ESN. If you're not, you can follow along with Urbana webcasts (the first general session talk by Urbana Director Jim Tebbe is already available) and with a special Urbana 09 Twitter-stream. You might even see some of my tweets. While you're thinking about Urbana, please pray for safe travel for the staff and delegates still on their … [Read more...] about ESN at Urbana 09