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What Is Ministry?

May 21, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson 3 Comments

About 18 months ago, I stepped down from my position as Associate Director of the Emerging Scholars Network and handed the reins over to my faithful coworker Tom Grosh. I kept my toe in the world of campus ministry by continuing to write for InterVarsity and leading a seminar at Urbana, but at the end of this month, I'm going to be stepping down (again) from my role as a blog contributor to focus on my new full-time job as web manager for a Cincinnati-based manufacturing company. It's an unusual career move, but most of … [Read more...] about What Is Ministry?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Vocation Tagged With: discipleship, ephesians, Ministry, Psalms, regent college, work

Scholars, Teachers, and the Church [Updated with correction]

May 3, 2011 by Micheal Hickerson 3 Comments

Correction (5/18/11): In the post below, I attributed a blog post to V. Philips Long of Regent College, when the post was actually written by Phillip J. Long of Grace Bible College. The text of the post has been corrected.  ~ Mike Last week, my response to Donald Miller resonated with many, many people, resulting in (by far) the highest number of comments, page views, Facebook shares, etc. of anything we've posted here. I think philosophy professor Mike Austin expressed a common reaction among Christians with an … [Read more...] about Scholars, Teachers, and the Church [Updated with correction]

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, The Purpose of Education Tagged With: discipleship of the mind, donald miller, ephesians, james, scholarship, teaching

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