2012 Lenten Reflection Series Last week I began the 2012 series with Entering Lent: “I Want” in Higher Education. As you may remember, Kent Annan's After Shock saturated my 2011 Lenten reflection. With Kent's recent visit to South Central PA and the deep chord which "I Want" struck not only with me, but also a number of the students with whom I watched it, I wondered if my 2012 reflections would largely draw from his earlier book Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle (InterVarsity Press, 2009). … [Read more...] about Lent brings me back to reflections on loss, grief, suffering
Christian Scholar Series
An invitation to discuss “Finding Calcutta” by Mary Poplin
With our limited time, energy, finances, blog attention spans, why focus on Mary Poplin's Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service (IVP. 2008)? My struggle to write this book, to tell the truth about Mother Teresa, and my struggles in the university are a testimony both to a lost public conversation and to a worldview that is very difficult for many in Western culture to comprehend fully, even some of us who profess Christ.”” -- Mary Poplin. Finding Calcutta. Accessed … [Read more...] about An invitation to discuss “Finding Calcutta” by Mary Poplin