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ESN Mentoring Letter — MidWest Faculty Conference

June 26, 2014 by Hannah Eagleson No Comments

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 […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, ESN Local, Mentoring Tagged With: 2014 Midwest Faculty Conference, academics, faculty conference, letter, Mentoring, Midwest Faculty Conference, spiritual life, The Ends and Goals of Higher Education in Twenty First Century America

The Myth of Sodom and Gomorrah

May 27, 2013 by Monica Greenwood 4 Comments

Homecomings for Christ-following secular university students may not always be perfectly sweet. The mellow look of sympathy from a friend or loved one is accompanied by the statement that “Now that you’re home, you can be with real Christian people.” Or the concerned question “How in the world can you study under professors that don’t […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: academics, calling, Christian community, Christian Philosophy, church, community, gospel, Myth of Sodom, philosophy, pray, secular philosophy, secular university

How Academics See Evangelicals: A Tentative Reading List

April 24, 2012 by Micheal Hickerson 8 Comments

Last week, I asked for recommendations for resources on how academics view evangelical Christians. Thank you for all of your great suggestions! In addition to the comments on the blog, I received several more suggestions by email, as well as a generous offer: T. M. Luhrmann, whose book When God Talks Back inspired by post […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: academics, anthropology, Christian professor, culture, Faculty, professor, research

What Do Academics Think of Evangelicals?

April 17, 2012 by Micheal Hickerson 11 Comments

When God Talks Back book cover

During the past few weeks, one of the darlings of the book review circuit has been T. M. Luhrmann’s When God Talks Back: Understanding the American Evangelical Relationship with God. Luhrmann, an anthropologist at Stanford, spent several years attending Vineyard Churches around the country — not out of spiritual interest, but as an anthropological study. Here […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: academics, anthropology, culture, evangelicals, t.m. luhrmann, When God Talks Back

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