Mary Simpson Poplin, PhD, Professor of Education, School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University, has been (and continues to be) a significant encouragement to and ministry partner with the Emerging Scholars Network. Even before receiving a copy of Is Reality Secular? Testing the Assumptions of Four Global Worldviews (InterVarsity Press, 2014), I knew that it was important to highlight Is Reality Secular? on the blog (See three early posts: 1, 2, 3). Over the course of the past several months, I … [Read more...] about Mary Poplin on “Is Reality Secular?”
Finding Calcutta
Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure
http://vimeo.com/16627829 Have you found yourself on an "Advent"-ure as we've considered Finding Calcutta? Do you find yourself longing for and waiting upon the coming of the Lord in your life, your neighborhood, your discipline, your campus, your nation, the creation? Do you find yourself, both as an individual and as part of the Body of Christ, stepping into the new heavens and the new earth? When the Caller speaks, whether in the midst of the mundane or the extraordinary, are you embracing the call? … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure
Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?
Probes: How would you articulate the gulf between a secular legacy, one of the world's primary measures of a life's work, and faithful fulfillment of Christian calling? How have you received affirmation/fulfillment in the blessing of Christ's call and following Christ's call? Defining legacy 1. Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest 2. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome -- From … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?
Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .
What do you think about . . . The nature of calling in the formal work of the church? Our need to recognize God's call and act in faithful response to it: in personal actions and obedience? in ways modeled by Mother Teresa as recorded by Mary Poplin in Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service (InterVarsity Press. 2008)? Calling to Formal Ministry with the Church Mother Teresa's special calling to start the Missionaries of Charity in ministry to the … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .
Finding Calcutta: “call awareness” w/o losing “Caller dependence”
Questions to explore: What is the definition of calling? What are biblical characteristics of "finding" one's calling? Who comes to mind as examples of biblical characters who “found” their calling? What are sins that undermine our calling and we should be prepared to address? Definitions of Calling [T]he truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: “call awareness” w/o losing “Caller dependence”