We came across this article in a letter to incoming graduate student and are glad to re-post these great ideas from Renee Nicholas here at the blog. You may be wondering what it could even look like to be healthy in this time when everything is changing. How can you keep a regular schedule of anything when you're spending time in quarantine or the gym is shut down? Good news! We can all do little things that help us to be healthier, even for a few minutes a day. Spiritual rhythms Are you a morning person? … [Read more...] about Can I Really Be Healthy in Grad School?
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Spiritual Disciplines for Graduate School
At Emerging Scholars Network, we love to crowdsource ideas for following Christ faithfully and serving others well in the academic life. In the 2018/2019 academic year, we've been sharing brief insights on how to grow spiritually in the academic life from many of the writers in our network. Read the series to date here, or check out more of Chandra's work for ESN at this link. … [Read more...] about Spiritual Disciplines for Graduate School
Science Corner: Prayers and Placebos
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving in the United States, a time for gratitude and community. Intangible qualities like these challenge science, since they don't lend themselves as readily to quantifying or to controlled investigation. Much easier for a scientist to tackle topics like tryptophan in turkey--no, that's not what makes you drowsy after dinner--because we have better tools for studying molecules. That doesn't mean gratitude or community aren't real or significant to our lives, just that we need different tools to study … [Read more...] about Science Corner: Prayers and Placebos
Immigration and the Church Today: Part 11 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series
And behold, a lawyer stood up to put [Jesus] to the test, saying, “Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?” He said to him, “What is written in the law? How do you read?” And he answered, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself.” And he said to him, “You have answered right; do this, and you will live.” But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, “And who is my … [Read more...] about Immigration and the Church Today: Part 11 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series
Immigration Policies and Politics. Part 10 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series
Our national immigration laws have created a moral, economic and political crisis in America. Initiatives to remedy this crisis have led to polarization and name calling in which opponents have misrepresented each other's positions as open borders and amnesty versus deportations of millions. This false choice has led to an unacceptable political stalemate at the federal level at a tragic human cost. —Soerens and Yang (2018) quoting the Evangelical Statement of Principles for Immigration Reform in, “Immigration Policies … [Read more...] about Immigration Policies and Politics. Part 10 of the Welcoming the Stranger Series