Note: All quotations taken from the essay “Staying Faithful” by Howard Louthan, unless otherwise noted. Howard Louthan's chapter in Faithful Is Successful: Notes To The Driven Pilgrim explores what it means to stay faithful to God in an academic calling. It is an honest reflection on the challenges he has encountered as both an academic historian and as a Christian. … [Read more...] about Staying Faithful to the Hidden Life (Scholar’s Compass)
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Faithful Is Successful: Interview with Matthew Cabeen
ESN continues its series of interviews with authors of Faithful Is Successful, chatting with Matthew Cabeen about career/family life balance. You can read Daniel Roeber's post on Matthew Cabeen's Faithful Is Successful essay here. Matthew Cabeen is a postdoctoral fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Foundation studying in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He studies bacterial community behavior in Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the laboratory of Prof. Richard Losick. … [Read more...] about Faithful Is Successful: Interview with Matthew Cabeen
Living out a Family-Career Balance (Scholar’s Compass)
Faithful Is Successful Series: Daniel Roeber reflects on family and career in response to Matthew Cabeen. Our careers and our families are both goods God has given to us that enrich our lives and can bring Him glory. Both are secondary to our relationship with God through Jesus Christ, without whose abundant and undeserved grace we can literally do nothing (not even exist). Neither career nor family is sufficient to fulfill the full range of our human needs. Without work, we cannot provide the basic needs that make … [Read more...] about Living out a Family-Career Balance (Scholar’s Compass)
Failing Faithfully: The Futility of Medicine (Scholar’s Compass)
It was stunning news. I listened with disbelief as my colleague described how a patient of ours, in whom we had uncovered a host of serious diseases over a few years, was now newly diagnosed with cancer after an incidental scan. In addition, his social supports had been eroded and I thought about what it would be like for him to die from a vicious terminal disease while alone and homeless. He would not be the first patient for me to watch die in such a way. To be a physician is, in many ways, an exercise in … [Read more...] about Failing Faithfully: The Futility of Medicine (Scholar’s Compass)
Faithful Is Successful Interview: David E. Lewis
ESN continues its series of interviews with authors of Faithful Is Successful.You can read Bethany Bowen-Wefuan's post on David's Faithful Is Successful essay here. David E. Lewis is the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of political science at Vanderbilt University. His research interests include the presidency, executive branch politics and public administration. He is the author of two books, Presidents and the Politics of Agency Design (Stanford University Press, 2003) and The Politics of Presidential … [Read more...] about Faithful Is Successful Interview: David E. Lewis