Fill out our fall Writer's Survey! In our first preview post last Sunday, we introduced several new and ongoing ways to connect with the wider community of Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) members. As we wrap up our fall preview series today, we'd like to highlight one more way to engage with community. We're inviting members and friends of ESN to share more about their own communities on the blog this year. We'd love to encourage emerging scholars by sharing what other believers are doing to build community in their … [Read more...] about Fall Preview: Highlighting Community
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Fall Preview: Interviews
Fill out our fall Writer's Survey! The Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) has an exciting new direction for interviews, encouraged by last spring's Faithful Is Successful series. The interviews in that series became a great way of sharing mentoring and peer conversations through ESN. As emerging scholars interviewed more experienced academics or peers at a similar career point, their thoughtful explorations encouraged others through the blog. We're hoping to do more interviews that let emerging scholars "listen in" on … [Read more...] about Fall Preview: Interviews
Approaching a New Semester
Editor's note: A powerful piece received a few weeks ago, I encourage you to join the author and myself in prayer for the new term. . . . I have to admit a certain fear as the new semester approaches. Not so much about the teaching itself. It's a lot of work, but I've done it before. What incites fear in me is the realization that I — with all my insecurities, faults and failures —am again being given sixty-some students for four hours a week for fifteen weeks. This is more time than they will spend with their … [Read more...] about Approaching a New Semester