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Book Review: Transformative Conversations

UW Madison Pres House – location of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA Faculty Ministry Leadership Team meetings (September 23 – 25, 2013). We began our gathering by sharing about God’s transformative work in our lives over the summer, a time of reflective prayer, and prayer walking the campus. Photo credit: Craig Gartland, Director of InterVarsity’s Faculty Ministry.

I have not only previously referred to Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education by Peter Felten, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Aaron Kheriaty, and Edward Taylor (Jossey-Bass, 2013), but also Bob Trube’s review of it (see Reclaiming Conversations?). None-the-less this is such a significant topic and resource for Faculty Ministry/Emerging Scholars Network (FM/ESN), I wanted to be sure to highlight Bob’s review as InterVarsity’s Faculty Ministry Leadership Team (FMLT) meets this week in Madison, WI (September 23 – 25). Pray for us as we prayerfully consider, plan, and take next steps in ministry over the course of this academic year and the next five. As you have suggestions — maybe even directly related to transformative conversations in the higher education, please email me. ~ Thomas B. Grosh IV, Associate Director of ESN, editor of ESN’s blog and Facebook Wall. [Read more…] about Book Review: Transformative Conversations