We're delighted to welcome Dr. Robbie Fox Castleman to the blog today to share some ideas on connecting faith and your field in the classroom. Dr. Castleman is a professor at John Brown University and an InterVarsity Press author. She has also served in InterVarsity area and national directorships. This article is taken, in part, from an address to faculty at John Brown University, 2019. Teachers, from pre-school to post-docs are a very brave lot. James cautions the early church, “Not many of you should become … [Read more...] about Teaching for Integration: Faith & Your Field in the Classroom
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How Open Should You Be About Your Faith…at a Christian College?
For the most part, the Emerging Scholars Network serves students and faculty at secular universities, and the majority of our posts and articles are written for that audience. When we've touched on the subject of "being open about your faith," it's generally dealt with the idea of evangelism —such as Rick Mattson on witness in the academy or myself on "thresholds of evangelism" —or with the ability to speak and work as an explicitly Christian scholar on the secular campus. A few weeks ago, we published a talk by … [Read more...] about How Open Should You Be About Your Faith…at a Christian College?
Serving Students and their Communities at One Indian Christian College
The third in Kami L. Rice's guest series on visiting India. Last week I eagerly ventured further south to Coimbatore, where I was greeted with flowers and smiles at the airport by my hosts-for-the-week from CSI Bishop Appasamy College of Arts & Sciences (BACAS), a Church of South India (CSI) college founded in 1995. I'm connected to BACAS via my freelance work, and when I met Mrs. Susheila Williams, the college's Secretary (which in India is the title for the chief administrative leader, a role something … [Read more...] about Serving Students and their Communities at One Indian Christian College