ESN Conversations is going into its third year and has become a place where ESN members have the opportunity to interact with thoughtful Christian scholars about important questions of academic and cultural import. Our YouTube channel now includes over 30 conversations extending back over two years and has enjoyed over 3300 views and a growing (free) subscriber base. Our past conversations are a great resource for personal listening, a video (or just audio if you want) discussion of a book you are interested in, or a … [Read more...] about Emerging Scholars Network Conversations: Autumn 2022
ESN Conversations
February through April ESN Conversations.
We are very excited to announce our upcoming ESN Conversations for the next three months and wanted to let you know so you could get these on your calendar. February 10, 2022: Faithful Antiracism. We will be joined by Chad Brennan, who is coordinator of the Race, Religion, and Justice Project, and founder of Renew Partnerships, a Christian research and consulting ministry that focuses on diversity and race in faith-based organizations. Also joining us is Christina Barland Edmondson. She is a higher education … [Read more...] about February through April ESN Conversations.
Have You Discovered ESN’s YouTube Channel?
A little over two years ago, before the pandemic, ESN launched our ESN Conversations, monthly conversations with scholars about the intersection of faith and scholarship. Over 400 people have participated in conversations. The early conversations weren't recorded, mostly due to legal reasons, but also to give us a chance to learn how to do this. By July of 2020, we had worked out those issues and began, with an interview of Elaine Howard Ecklund, to post these interviews on our newly created Emerging Scholars Network … [Read more...] about Have You Discovered ESN’s YouTube Channel?
Event Announcement: ESN Conversation – Struggling With Evangelicalism
Most of us who in some way identify as "evangelical" are struggling, whether we use this as a descriptor or affirm some of its historical theological distinctives. Some of us have left and some are thinking about it. Some of us have personally been impacted while others of us have witnessed injustices, the abuse of power, and other patterns of wrongdoing inconsistent with the gospel of Jesus. Even among those of us who have "stayed," perhaps because of positive factors in our own context, we wonder whether the label … [Read more...] about Event Announcement: ESN Conversation – Struggling With Evangelicalism
ESN Conversation June 16: It’s Not Your Turn with Heather Thompson Day
Join our June conversation and learn what to do while waiting for your breakthrough. Heather Thompson Day is associate professor of communication at Colorado Christian University and an interdenominational speaker and contributor for Religion News Service, Newsweek, and the Barna Group. She runs an online community called I'm That Wife and is the author of six books, including Confessions of a Christian Wife and How to Feed the Mediavore. She resides in Littleton, Colorado, with her husband and their three … [Read more...] about ESN Conversation June 16: It’s Not Your Turn with Heather Thompson Day