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Christian Personal Statement

On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love

September 15, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Inspired by a response to  The Urban Resident's series on  Christian Personal Statement  and building upon my  conversation  with Mary Poplin regarding  Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews?  (InterVarsity Press, 2014), I asked Mary to share  a personal statement that describes her calling/vocation as a Christian professor in a secular university.  May you find these words an encouragement as you seek the Lord's insight in  articulating, bearing the marks  of, embodying the call to be a … [Read more...] about On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love

Filed Under: Academics as Mission, Christ and the Academy, Is Reality Secular Tagged With: Christian Personal Statement, constructivism, Mary Poplin, mind, personal statement, secular, Transformative Conversations

Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 3

January 10, 2014 by David 1 Comment

In today's culture, there is no greater sin than to be a phony.  No offense to the lawyers out there, but Holden Caulfield said it well: “Lawyers are alright, I guess —but it doesn't appeal to me", I said. "I mean they're alright if they go around saving innocent guys' lives all the time, and like that, but you don't do that kind of stuff if you're a lawyer. All you do is make a lot of dough and play golf and play bridge and buy cars and drink Martinis and look like a hot-shot. And besides, even if you did go around … [Read more...] about Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 3

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: authentic, Catcher in the Rye, Christian Personal Statement, personal statement, venting insecurity

Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 2

October 25, 2013 by David 3 Comments

My essay for admission to medical school was brutally honest.  I talked about my low GPA, my relationship with my parents, my obsession with the problem of suffering, quotes from my personal journal, and how it was all driven by a radical faith in Jesus Christ (and images in my head of suffering children).  It was my attempt at being really, really honest and was the product of many careful hours of meticulous revision. Note: Click here for Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 1. It was also really, really … [Read more...] about Writing a Christian Personal Statement: Part 2

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: calling, career, Christian Personal Statement, gospel, healthcare, medical student, personal statement, self-knowledge

Writing a Christian Personal Statement

October 11, 2013 by David 10 Comments

Writing any application for a school can be difficult, and writing the Personal Statement can become the most challenging part of it. By the time you are preparing to submit an application, most of its elements are already fixed: your GPA, your MCAT or GRE scores, the activities you did (or didn't do). The Personal Statement, however, is an open field of possibilities in self expression, and that sense of ambiguity lends itself to great liberty and/or great anxiety. Admittedly, the title is somewhat misleading. A … [Read more...] about Writing a Christian Personal Statement

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: application, calling, career, Christian Personal Statement, healthcare, medical student, personal statement, self-knowledge

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