Join me in pressing into the call to hunger and thirst for the Lord (individually and as part of the people of God in a particular place) in the mundane of study, vocation, and practice.Read more…
Restless is our heart . . .
Inspired by lengthy conversations at Urbana Student Missions Conference (12/27-31) regarding resources on/practices in faithful witness and my family returning with a suitcase full of books, I am launching Read…Quote…Reflect.Read more…
Faith and Reason, Part 2: Augustine
Augustine was instrumental in promoting the “faith seeking understanding” conception of knowledge.Read more…
James K.A. Smith on “Liturgical Discipleship”
Discipleship, becoming Christ-like, empowered by the Spirit to image God to the world is not magic. Nor is it merely intellectual. It’s a matter of re-forming our loves, re-narrativing our identities, re-habituating our virtue. And that is centered in the practices ofRead more…
Late Have I Loved You
In last night’s Christian Devotional Classics (Evangelical Seminary) a fellow student shared how much he appreciated Gungor‘s “lifting” of the words of Augustine’s Confessions in Late have I loved you. As you may remember Augustine’s Confessions won ESN’s Best Christian Book of All Time and this is aRead more…
The Best Christian Book of All Time: By the Numbers
If we’re going to take the sports angle to this tournament all the way, then at some point we need a “Moneyball” type to come in with formulas and spreadsheets to turn the whole thing on its head. Turns outRead more…
The Best Christian Book of All Time: The Winner
We have a winner! Out of our original bracket of 64 books, one book has been chosen by Emerging Scholars Network members as the Best Christian Book of All Time. The Winner Confessions by Augustine has defeated Mere Christianity byRead more…
Best Christian Book of All Time: The Ultimate Showdown!
It has come to this. The two best books in the history of Christianity have been chosen by you, our readers and Emerging Scholars Network members, and we’re ready to answer the question of which book is the best Christian book ofRead more…
Academics Coming to Faith
Do we enter the fall with the anticipation of colleagues coming to faith? Several years ago, InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministry Staff Christian Anible wrote The Conversion of a Scholar: A Reflection on Augustine’s Confessions. Take a few minutes toRead more…