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Maundy Thursday

April 2, 2015 by ESN Announce No Comments

The Agonie by George Herbert Philosophers have measur’d mountains, Fathom’d the depths of seas, of states, and kings, Walk’d with a staffe to heaven, and traced fountains: But there are two vast, spacious things, The which to measure it doth more behove: Yet few there are that sound them; Sinne and Love. Who would know […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: George Herbert, lent, Maundy Thursday, Praying at Gethsemane, Qi He

Staying Faithful to the Hidden Life (Scholar’s Compass)

March 24, 2015 by Esther Harris No Comments

The author first remembers rethinking models of success when he and his wife, also a professional historian, discovered they were having twins near the end of their respective PhD programs. The future was very promising then, with various competitive research grants won and a publishing contract obtained together, for a historical project they had been working on alongside their dissertations. Certainly a rare and exciting feat for two young married historians. At first the oncoming twins seemed the ‘first major speed bump’ towards this ‘fast track to success,’ but naturally, children are much more than that!

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: Faithful is Successful, George Herbert, Howard Louthan, Scholar's Compass

Learning Prayer from George Herbert

July 17, 2014 by Hannah Eagleson 2 Comments

George Herbert

The milky way, the bird of Paradise, Church-bells beyond the stars heard, the soul’s blood, The land of spices; something understood. – Description of prayer from George Herbert’s poem Prayer (I) Reflection I certainly didn’t expect it. If someone had told me that a seventeenth-century poem called Prayer would capture the imaginations of my undergraduate British […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Devotional, ESN Devotional Project Tagged With: classroom, dissertation, George Herbert, Prayer, Prayer (I)

A grateful heart

November 22, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

George Herbert

Thou has given so much to me Give one thing more – a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleases me, As if Thy blessings had spare days; But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise — George Herbert May it be so for each of us as we celebrate Christ the King and […]

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Praise and Thanksgiving

November 24, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Today join me in praising God for his blessing and asking him to continue to grow in all of us a heart of thankfulness and joy.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Advent, christmas, George Herbert, Love III, Praise and Thanksgiving, Psalm 145, Thanksgiving, The Temple, The Valley of Vision

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