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Summer Snapshot: Taste, See, and Obey

July 23, 2016 by Angelo Blancaflor 1 Comment

Angelo connected with the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) through the Urbana15 pilot ESN Scholars Program, which connected emerging scholars with mentors and peers in small groups before, after, and during the Urbana Student Missions Conference. He also served on the Urbana 15 liveblogging team, and you can read some of his previous work for ESN here. As Angelo considered graduate school and joined InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, this Summer Snapchat [1] offered a reflection on God's work. If you would like to … [Read more...] about Summer Snapshot: Taste, See, and Obey

Filed Under: Life in the Academy, Science and Faith, Transitions, Vocational Snapshot Tagged With: calling, Ministry in Digital Spaces, science, Summer Snapshot, technology, transition, urbana

Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

July 17, 2016 by Will Mari 1 Comment

What's it actually like when you finally finish a PhD? Recent PhD grad Will Mari continues his series on life after graduate school, Processing Your PhD. See  his first post here, and his second here. … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: a further meditation on done-ness

Filed Under: Completing Your PhD, Faculty, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, Faculty, journey, Processing Your PhD, professor, transition, vocation

Processing your PhD: on teaching

July 10, 2016 by Will Mari Leave a Comment

Recent PhD grad Will Mari continues his series on life after graduate school, Processing Your PhD. See  his first post here. … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: on teaching

Filed Under: Completing Your PhD, Faculty, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, calling, Career Stages, Faculty, Processing Your PhD, professor, teaching, transitions, vocation

Book Review: Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, by Johan Huizinga

July 7, 2016 by Bob Trube Leave a Comment

Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, Johan Huizinga, tr. F. Hopman. New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1957 (first published in 1924). Link is to Dover Publications reprint. This book is now in the public domain and there are free versions for Kindle  and other digital formats. Summary: An elegantly written biography of Desiderius Erasmus describing his life, thought and character as a scholar who hoped to awaken “good learning”  and  to bring about a purified Catholic church, and the tensions resulting from being caught … [Read more...] about Book Review: Erasmus and the Age of Reformation, by Johan Huizinga

Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Book Review, calling, Christian scholar, christian scholarship, Erasmus, humanism, humanist scholarship, Johan Huizinga, public domain works, Reformation

Processing your PhD: the first of a short series on life after graduate school

July 3, 2016 by Will Mari 4 Comments

Join us in welcoming  recent University of Washington PhD grad and new professor Will Mari, who will be sharing reflections on transitions and  life after graduate school this summer. Photo: Columns, Sylvan Grove, University of Washington You stand in the Quad, surrounded by empty chairs and the sound guys talking down the stage. It's an early June day in Seattle at the University of Washington. A cool wind is blowing paper programs lazily through the air. Rain is misting down, as it does in the Northwest, … [Read more...] about Processing your PhD: the first of a short series on life after graduate school

Filed Under: Completing Your PhD, Faculty, Life in the Academy, Transitions Tagged With: after graduate school, birth, calling, Career Stages, dissertation, Faculty, journey, Processing Your PhD, professor, vocation

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