The work of ESN is so essential—not just for scholars themselves, but for the university, our culture, and the church as well. — Andy CrouchRead more…
Book Review: Playing God, by Andy Crouch
I think many of us have developed our understanding of power from Lord Acton’s axiom: Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. For most of us, that is the end of story and this accounts, at least among many Christians I know, for a deep aversion to anything like the exercise of power.Read more…
Enter to win: Strong and Weak e-book
Enter a drawing to become one of the five winners of Andy Crouch’s new “Strong and Weak: Embracing a Life of Love, Risk and True Flourishing” in e-book before the paper copy even hits the shelf. Wow! How do you enter?Read more…
Win a free ebook: Strong and Weak, by Andy Crouch
The Emerging Scholars Network is delighted to give away 5 free e-books of Andy Crouch’s Strong and Weak . . . Enter for a drawing of an e-book.Read more…
Teaser: Strong and Weak, by Andy Crouch
Andy Crouch begins “Strong and Weak” (2016) by offering the two questions that “haunt every human life, and every human community. . . .”Read more…
Missionaries Changed the World Once – Can they do it again?
The topic of a recent cover story in Christianity Today is shaking up not only the world of missions, but also academia. The World the Missionaries Made is a report on the work of Robert Woodberry, a sociologist currently researching atRead more…
Imagebearer: Flourishing
I confess being quite excited to board Amtrak at 5:17 am in Elizabethtown, PA, to travel to the Big Apple to hear Andy Crouch, Executive Editor for Christianity Today, present material from his new InterVarsity Press release Playing God: Redeeming the GiftRead more…
What Books Should We Suggest at Urbana 12?
In only 15 days, ESN will be joining 18,000 of our closest friends at Urbana 12, InterVarsity’s triennial missions conference. As in years past, we’ll have an exhibitor table, and I’ll be hosting a seminar on “Serving Christ as a Professor.” OneRead more…
Best Books on Calling and Vocation?
I recently wrote about themes of calling and vocation in Chaim Potok’s My Name Is Asher Lev. This got me to thinking: What are the best books on calling and vocation? Here are a few that occur to me. WhatRead more…
Headed to Graduate School: A Time of Re-imaging
In my prior post I encouraged students who are headed toward grad school to begin their journey with a lofty end-point in mind: to grow into a person. In the Biblical sense, personhood has to do with fulfilling one’s potentialRead more…
Deploying Vocational Power: Four Pathways
Amy Sherman begins her exploration of power in chapter 8 of Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good with a bang!Read more…
Would You Support ESN With An End-of-the-Year Gift?
If you’re an official member of the Emerging Scholars Network, then you’ve received my recent end-of-the-year emails. (If you aren’t an ESN member, then why not join right now?) These updates share the good news of ESN’s recent activities and inviteRead more…
The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process
Have you ever considered The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process? Al Hsu, an editor (and author) for InterVarsity Press, skillfully explores The Spiritual Life as an Editorial Process in Chapter 5 of the recently published A Spiritual Life: PerspectivesRead more…
Week in Review: Challenges of Higher Education
What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here’s a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you’d like us to consider for theRead more…
Chasing Wisdom with Nathan Foster part III
Returning to our series with Nathan Foster, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, MI. As you may remember, the first post focused upon how a private person, such as Nathan, wrote such an open book aboutRead more…
Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power
Tonight, as part of Biblical Seminary’s Conversations on Christianity & Culture lecture series, Andy Crouch speaks on Playing God: Christian Reflections on the Use and Misuse of Power. What are your thoughts on the topic? Any questions I should askRead more…
Can New Symbols Change Academic Culture?
Two weeks ago, I was at InterVarsity’s Cedar Campus for our 2009 Midwest Faculty Conference. John Sommerville, professor emeritus of history at U. Florida and author of The Decline of the Secular University, was the featured speaker. He spoke aboutRead more…
The Central PA Christian Scholars Network
Last weekend, my fellow blogger Tom Grosh launched the Central Pennsylvania Christian Scholars Network with an event called “Culture Making on Our Campuses,” featuring Andy Crouch, author of Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling. (Here‘s more about the book fromRead more…
Keeping “to-do lists”
Are to-do lists a helpful tool to getting things done? Or do you find them frustratingly long and seemingly insurmountable? Or do you find them buried under papers or in old documents/post-it notes on your screen, wall, door? Or do youRead more…