On Martin Luther King Jr. Day, ESN Staff prays for the ongoing grace to seek justice and practice mercy, to stand with the vulnerable, and to celebrate the vast diversity of people represented in God's Kingdom. Here are a few resources the ESN blog has shared over the past few years related to the work of Martin Luther King Jr. 1. "God Was the First to Cry," a 2-part blog post by Lauri Swann as part of our Lent 2015 Justice series. See Part 1 here and Part 2 here. 2. Book review of Birmingham Revolution … [Read more...] about Resources for Martin Luther King Jr. Day
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How I found Mentors
Kateri Collins has been sharing her experiences preparing for graduate school with ESN this year. Now that she has started her program, she explores her stories of finding mentoring and offers tips. Check out Kateri's other pieces: the story of her graduate school search and a reflection on inhabiting transitional time well. Image: Painting by Kateri Collins. … [Read more...] about How I found Mentors
Inhabiting Transitional Time Well
Image by Kateri Collins Here at ESN, we love to share accounts of how emerging scholars discover new things about their vocation at every step of their careers. Kateri Collins participated in ESN events at Urbana 15 while in her graduate school application process, and shared about that application process here. Here, she shares some of the things she found most helpful while in transition between undergraduate and graduate studies. … [Read more...] about Inhabiting Transitional Time Well
Discerning My Vocation: A Surprise in the Graduate School Search
Image: Painting by author Kateri Collins Here at ESN, we love to share accounts of how emerging scholars discover new things about their vocation at every step of their careers. Kateri Collins participated in ESN events at Urbana 15 while in her graduate school application process. Here, she shares the story of discerning which graduate program she was called to, including how her carefully planned graduate school search process yielded a surprising—and satisfying—result. … [Read more...] about Discerning My Vocation: A Surprise in the Graduate School Search
Moving Beyond Indifference and Inactivism: Lessons for Christians from #BlackLivesMatter
What role have Christians played in the #BlackLivesMatter movement in St. Louis, and what lessons have they learned? This panel discussion at the Urbana Missions Conference brought together black and white faith leaders to reflect on these movements and gave an opportunity to a packed theater of attendees to ask questions. From Dec 27 - Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 … [Read more...] about Moving Beyond Indifference and Inactivism: Lessons for Christians from #BlackLivesMatter