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Survival Kit: Challenges in Life and Academia

March 31, 2017 by ESN Announce No Comments

It’s great when everything rolls along smoothly in your academic life. But what about those times when it doesn’t? Maybe this spring, you’re dealing with doubt, struggling with unjust circumstances, or grieving a loss. Or perhaps nothing huge is wrong, but you feel overwhelmed and tired out.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Survival Kit Tagged With: disappointment, doubt, grief, repetition, Suffering, Survival Kit, Survival Kit: Challenges in Life and Academia

Faith and Doubt in Emily Dickinson’s “This World is not Conclusion”

January 15, 2017 by Mark Hansard 1 Comment

What is fascinating about Dickinson’s poetry is her wrestling with the mystery of faith, oscillating as she does between the comfort of traditional faith and the gnawing presence of doubt.

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Filed Under: Devotional, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: American literature, devotional, doubt, Emily Dickinson, Scholar's Compass

Book Review: Questioning Your Doubts

November 20, 2015 by Bob Trube No Comments

Summary: This book comes out of the world of academic research and proposes that the process of questioning our doubts as well as our faith builds bridges of understanding deepening both our exercise of reason and confidence in our faith.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: apologetics, Book Review, Christina M.H. Powell, doubt, faith, Graduate Study, intervarsity press, Michael Faraday, questions, science, science and faith, urbana

Review: Benefit of the Doubt (Greg Boyd)

April 6, 2015 by Mark Hansard 1 Comment

Boyd begins his book by critiquing the idea that in order for us not to doubt, we must have certainty. He relates the story of a time he and others were praying for the healing of a church member, and how he tried to make himself believe that the person would be healed.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Benefit of the Doubt, Book Review, doubt, Greg Boyd

Book Review: Mind Your Faith

October 15, 2013 by Bob Trube No Comments

Ideas have consequences. The Holocaust began as an idea, argues David Horner*. Thinking well and loving God with our minds is thus an essential calling for Christians. Horner dedicates Mind Your Faith: A Student’s Guide to Thinking & Living Well to helping university students, especially undergraduate first years, grasp what it takes to think and live well […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: character, David Horner, discipleship of the mind, doubt, faith and reason, Holocaust, Huguenots, intervarsity press, Le Chambon-sur-Lignon, loving God, Mind Your Faith: A Student's Guide to Thinking & Living Well, thinking

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