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Louis Agassiz: A Life in Science by Edward Lurie My rating: 4 of 5 stars Louis Agassiz might well be considered the foremost naturalist of the first half of the nineteenth century. He brought a rigor to the scientific enterprise in America thatRead more…
Education’s End: Why Our Colleges and Universities Have Given Up on the Meaning of Life by Anthony T. Kronman (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2007). My rating: 4 of 5 stars. Anthony Kronman had me by the time I got to the subtitle.Read more…
The Humanities and Public Life edited by Peter Brooks with Hilary Jewett (Bronx: Fordham University Press, 2014). My rating: 3 of 5 stars. There is no question but that the humanities are under fire. Budgets are being cut, sometimes whole departments. How thenRead more…
“Christian Faculty Mentoring Students” and “Beyond Academics: Kelly Arispe and Spanish Linguistics” are two of several excellent resources for Faculty MinistryRead more…
Yesterday InterVarsity’s Faculty Ministry Leadership Team began several days of meetings (Tampa, FL) seeking discernment for next steps in ministry. Pray for us as we engage in prayerful consideration of The State of Faculty Ministry, particularly with respect to ourRead more…
Longtime readers of the blog and members of the Emerging Scholars Network know we have a close relationship with InterVarsity Faculty Ministry. Where ESN helps students and young faculty who are pursuing academic careers, Faculty Ministry serves current faculty, primarily at secular universities, throughRead more…
What does InterVarsity Christian Fellowship’s Faculty Ministry do? At a recent gathering, InterVarsity’s Faculty Ministry Leadership Team (FMLT) delved into Further development of ministry resources, for example . . . Getting the word out regarding InterVarsity’s growing Faculty Ministry Inviting othersRead more…
On Friday, we sent out the first 2011-12 issue of the Lamp Post, the email chronicle of InterVarsity Faculty Ministry. “What is the Lamp Post?” you ask? And well you might: it had been a while since we sent outRead more…
Last week, InterVarsity hosted the 2011 Midwest Faculty Conference at Cedar Campus in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. It’s a beautiful place, as slideshows from the 2009 and 2010 conferences attest, and the conference intentionally makes space for both relaxation and intellectualRead more…
In follow-up to The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar, below is a word from Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, regarding the value of the Emerging Scholars Network: The Emerging Scholars Network is an essential and growingRead more…
Update (6/13/2012): InterVarsity Christian Fellowship is pleased to announce Craig Gartland has agreed to serve as InterVarsity’s new Director of Faculty Ministry beginning July 1, 2012. Congrats Craig! Thank-you to all who contributed their input in the process and prayed for our work through this discernmentRead more…
Just a quick, unscheduled post today. ESN works very closely with InterVarsity’s Faculty Ministry, which publishes a quarterly email chronicle called The Lamp Post. The next issue is coming out this week. If you aren’t receiving it, you should be!Read more…