This Advent, Nan Thomas will share four Sunday reflections with us on these themes: hope, prepare, watch, and rejoice. Nan is deeply thoughtful about spiritual formation, a topic she pursues as an InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries staff member and as Associate Director of Faculty Development at Union University. In addition, Nan was part of the founding team that imagined the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) and made it a reality. We're grateful for her ongoing advice and encouragement, and for this Advent … [Read more...] about Prepare: Second Week of Advent (Scholar’s Compass)
Advent
Hope: First Week of Advent (Scholar’s Compass)
This Advent, Nan Thomas will share four Sunday reflections with us on these themes: hope, prepare, watch, and rejoice. Nan is deeply thoughtful about spiritual formation, a topic she pursues as an InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries staff member and as Associate Director of Faculty Development at Union University. In addition, Nan was part of the founding team that imagined the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) and made it a reality. We're grateful for her ongoing advice and encouragement, and for this Advent … [Read more...] about Hope: First Week of Advent (Scholar’s Compass)
Earth, Strike Up Your Music: Christmas Eve
During the Christmas season this year, the Emerging Scholars Network is posting works by Christina Rossetti. As a thoughtful poet who engaged deeply with faith, Rossetti wrote a number of poems about the church calendar. Her imagery is rich and thoughtful, and we hope this poetry helps you to reflect on what it means to celebrate Christ's birth. For material from our archives on Advent click here. To God be the glory! - Hannah … [Read more...] about Earth, Strike Up Your Music: Christmas Eve
It May Be At the Midnight: Fourth Sunday of Advent
During the Sundays of Advent this year, the Emerging Scholars Network is posting works by Christina Rossetti. As a thoughtful poet who engaged deeply with faith, Rossetti wrote a number of poems about the church calendar. In the Advent poems we share here, she engages with the traditional idea of Advent as both remembering Christ's first coming and waiting for His second. Her imagery is rich and thoughtful, and we hope this poetry helps you to reflect on what it means to wait for Christ. For material from our … [Read more...] about It May Be At the Midnight: Fourth Sunday of Advent
Advent: The Problem of What Matters
Reading Out of the stump of David's family will grow a shoot--- Yes, a new Branch bearing fruit from the old root. -- Isaiah 11:1 … [Read more...] about Advent: The Problem of What Matters