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Week in Review: Sleeping Edition

August 13, 2010 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Man on bicycle with sleeping daughter on Easter afternoon

What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1.   Ever struggle with The Morality of Sleep (The Chronicle of Higher Education. 8/11/2010)?      Hope this research helps encourage the driven (including myself) to remember to take a  day of rest, develop  margin, and step into helpful … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Sleeping Edition

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: christianity, Christopher Hitchens, Evangelicalism, james k a smith, Justification by Faith, Michael Ruse, poetry, Sarah Bernhardt, sleep, Yale's Jewish Lives Series

Emerging Scholars at Jubilee 2010

February 22, 2010 by Micheal Hickerson 2 Comments

Byron Borger

I spent the weekend at Jubilee, the annual student conference of the Coalition for Christian Outreach. Jubilee has a great reputation for emphasizing the theology of vocation - a reputation which was confirmed, by the way - but I didn't expect the high level of fun generated by the conference. Saturday evening featured a hilarious (and moving) monologue from actress and writing Susan Isaacs (author of Angry Conversations with God) and a can't-possibly-be-true-except-he-brought-pictures talk from Bob Goff, president of … [Read more...] about Emerging Scholars at Jubilee 2010

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Resources for ESN Members Tagged With: christianity, college ministry, conferences, culture, events, jubilee

Linguistics and Faith

February 5, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson 18 Comments

A while back, one of our blog readers sent me a link to this fascinating New Yorker article, "The Interpreter" by John Colapinto, which combines academic controversy, the interplay between theory and practice, and the (dis)integration of faith, life, and learning. It tells the story of Dan Everett, professor of linguistics at Illinois State University, a former evangelical Christian and Bible translator with SIL who, as he advanced in his academic career, lost his faith in Christ. … [Read more...] about Linguistics and Faith

Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: atheism, christianity, faith, linguistics

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