“Part of the joy inherent in a life of faith is seeing how God's love reflected through us manifests itself in our vocations in different but wholly godly and beautiful ways.” David E. Lewis, “Integrating Faith and Vocation in a Research Career” from Faithfulness is Success: Notes to the Driven Pilgrim Reflection My vivid imagination has created a wonderfully precise image of a Christian graduate student who talks, teaches, writes, and researches with faith, intelligence, and success. She is articulate … [Read more...] about How to Be a Christian Grad Student (Scholar’s Compass)
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Faithful Is Successful Interview: Dano Jukanovich
Image: Traditional Rwandan baskets exhibited in the National University of Rwanda, photographed by Colleen Taugher ESN continues its series of interviews with authors of Faithful Is Successful. Dano Jukanovich is a co-founder and partner with Karisimbi Business Partners in Kigali, Rwanda, a socially motivated management consulting and private equity firm focused on small and mid-size enterprise development. His background includes five years of service as a U.S. Army Airborne Ranger and Senior Intelligence … [Read more...] about Faithful Is Successful Interview: Dano Jukanovich
Instruments of Symphonic Providence (Scholar’s Compass)
“And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose.” Romans 8:28 ESV Where I am now is not where I would have planned fifteen years ago, but cliché as it may seem, where I am is much better than what I could have asked for or imagined. – Dano Jukanovich, Faithful Is Successful Reflection At one of these home church meetings a spiritually gifted guest offered a word about me in absentia. He told my parents that God had plans for my life. … [Read more...] about Instruments of Symphonic Providence (Scholar’s Compass)
Faithful Is Successful Interview: Bryan McGraw
ESN continues its series of interviews with authors of Faithful Is Successful. Bryan McGraw is associate professor politics at Wheaton College. He has taught previously at the University of Georgia, Notre Dame and Pepperdine University. His first book, Faith in Politics: Religion and Liberal Democracy, was published by Cambridge University Press, and he is beginning a project on pluralism, law and religion, and political theology. He earned an AM in political science from Brown University, an MA in Russian area studies … [Read more...] about Faithful Is Successful Interview: Bryan McGraw
“Blessed Are the Successful?” (Scholar’s Compass)
“One's life, especially as it relates to the kingdom, is certainly not tied to securing that particular job or really any kind of career advancement—if we can grasp and hold on to that truth, the inevitable disappointments attendant to any vocation can be endured and even turned to our good.” - Bryan T. McGraw, "Seeing What's Around: Vision and Vocation," in Faithful Is Successful … [Read more...] about “Blessed Are the Successful?” (Scholar’s Compass)