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Healing…Fiction…Connectedness [Balm in Gilead / Summer Read…Quote…Reflect]

June 28, 2019 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

With summer unfolding, I thought that it would be good to go the direction of Read…Quote…Reflect, beginning with a series on “Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson” – an InterVarsity Press publication resulting from the 2018 Wheaton Theology Conference.

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Filed Under: Devotional, Quotes Tagged With: Balm in Gilead, fiction, healing, intervarsity press, Marilynne Robinson, Read...Quote...Reflect, rest, Rowan Williams, Shawn E. Okpebholo

Author Interview: David Russell Mosley

November 7, 2017 by David Russell Mosley No Comments

David Russell Mosley chats with ESN about writing a novel and a PhD thesis at the same time, publishing them both for a wider audience, and why beauty matters for Christian academics.

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Filed Under: Author, Interview, Life in the Academy Tagged With: creativity, fiction, writing

What are the Best Novels about the Academic Life?

September 14, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson 3 Comments

Over the weekend, I started reading Stephen Carter’s The Emperor of Ocean Park. Carter, a law professor at Yale, made his name with nonfiction books like The Culture of Disbelief, and he also wrote a column for Christianity Today for several years. He’s now successfully transitioned into a career as a bestselling novelist. The novel’s […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy Tagged With: books, C. S. Lewis, fiction, michael chabon, novels, stephen carter, tom wolfe, wallace stegner

Dumbledore as a model admin?

August 6, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 3 Comments

In A Great Man, Dumbledore,  Rob Jenkins, an associate professor of English and director of the Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College, proposes Albus Dumbledore, headmaster of Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, might just be the greatest academic administrator of all time. … Of course, not everybody can be a Dumbledore, but two-year college […]

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christ and the Academy, Life in the Academy, The University Tagged With: 2 year colleges, administration, Dumbledore, fiction, Harry Potter, Umbridge

Week in Review: Shop Class, Teaching Naked

July 24, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Week in Review! If you have your own link or suggestion, please add it to the comments, or email it to Tom or Mike. From Tom 1.  Another piece to throw into our technology conversation:  How about teaching naked, i.e., sans machines?  Do you agree with José A. Bowen, dean of […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: fiction, higher education, marriage, Shop Class as Soulcraft, Stephen Colbert, technology, wallace stegner

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