One of the most gratifying and rewarding experiences in both my spiritual and intellectual life was taking a year to read the Bible from my own discipline.Read more…
Engaged Learning, YouTube, and Audience Needs
We have content that we want to offer, while our audience has content that they want to receive, and often somewhere else lies the content that our audience needs. Read more…
Imago Dei: Witness and Work (Part 5 of 5)
As someone who is involved in ministry vocationally, I have found that I have an interesting perspective on how many in the church understand the significance of work and its intersection with faith. I have encountered something of a double standard relating to the value of work for people who are in ministry positions and for believers involved in “secular professions.”Read more…
Introducing Kuyper’s “Sphere Sovereignty”
Kuyper posited that there are multiple spheres of influence in life and they are all responsible for their own flourishing.Read more…
Book Review: Teaching Naked
Teaching Naked: How Moving Technology Out of Your College Classroom Will Improve Student Learning by Jose A. Bowen My rating: 4 of 5 stars The subtitle of this book actually explains the attention-grabbing title of this book. Bowen contends thatRead more…
Book Review: Hear, My Son
Proverbs 1-9 is an extended address on the value of wisdom from a father or elder teacher to a son or student that introduces the wisdom sayings of the remainder of Proverbs. In Hear, My Son: Teaching & Learning inRead more…
“Time” to be imitated?
The Marks of a Christian Scholar: A Vocational Description (Part Three)[1] Mark Eckel, ThM PhD, Professor of Leadership, Education & Discipleship Capital Seminary & Graduate School, Washington, D.C. By guiding attention we take in our hands the key to theRead more…
Owning education
The Marks of a Christian Teacher: A Vocational Description (Part Two)[1] Mark Eckel, ThM PhD, Professor of Leadership, Education & Discipleship Capital Seminary & Graduate School, Washington, D.C. The true function of the teacher is to create the most favorableRead more…
Book Review: Desiring the Kingdom
Once in a while a book comes along that crystallizes the things you have been thinking and takes you further down the road. This was such a book. James K.A. Smith contends that we are primarily “desiring animals” who thinkRead more…
Review: The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert
Rosaria Champagne Butterfield, The Secret Thoughts of an Unlikely Convert (Pittsburgh: Crown & Covenant Publications, 2012). 154 pp. Rosaria Butterfield is the kind of woman she herself once bitterly opposed. The homeschooling pastor’s wife and adoptive mother of four wasRead more…
PhD or No PhD. That is the Question.
Although Kate’s a professor in the Humanities and as such adds to the archive of material addressing Why Get a PhD in the Humanities?, she also opens up the question to PhD or No PhD? In response to her excellent post, I desireRead more…
Does Education Need to Have a Highest Good?
While mowing the grass on Sunday, here’s the question that was put to me through my headphones: Is it possible to really have education — and hence to nourish imaginations — if schools refuse to define some highest good thatRead more…
Should we “Send Huck Finn to College”?
I grew up not only reading edited “classics” such as the Great American Novel, i.e., The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Tom Sawyer’s Comrade (1885), and The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876), but also watching TV/Movie versions of these books. ButRead more…
Captain Underpants and Faculty Role Models
Here on the ESN blog, we’ve often blogged about differing views of education, particularly the conflict between education as personal formation and education as professional training. I encountered these differing views in two articles recently. I expected to see competingRead more…
Twitter: a tool for a new generation of academic conversation or Not? (Updated)
You might remember various Technology in Higher Education posts exploring: “Creepy Treehouse”? Friending Your Professors or Students New Technology and Academic Research Who do you trust? Google and information gathering What Tools Do You Use? Should we not leave Twitter outRead more…
Director, School of Education, Colorado State
Tenure-track positions can be hard to find, and many universities are cutting back on hiring, but Colorado State is looking for a new Director for their School of Education. I know there are many education scholars in ESN, so perhapsRead more…