How can Christian women find the courage to follow the call of academia, and what does that life look like? At the Urbana 2015 conference, a panel of women in academia share insights into how they find life as Christians and women in the university setting. From Dec 27 - Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 Christians from across North America and the world. This post was co-written by … [Read more...] about Gender, Calling, and Courage: Lessons from Christian Women in Academia
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Book Review: Exiles From Eden
Exiles From Eden by Mark R. Schwehn. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Summary: Schwehn chronicles a shift in the academic vocation from one of formation of the mind and character of students to one of making knowledge, reflecting a change from religiously shaped values to a valuing of formal and procedural rationality, and from an integral sense of self to a multiplicity of “selves.” … [Read more...] about Book Review: Exiles From Eden
The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MqIWGAKDfa8 Earlier Bob Trube, Senior Area Director, IVCF/USA shared the transcript (with minor edits) of The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities, a presentation he gave at the IFES World Assembly (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 7/22/2015). Now the video is available online and the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) doesn't want you miss it! Furthermore, we encourage you to find an opportunity with peers to discuss the four "change" forces in the university that offer both challenges … [Read more...] about The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities (Video)
The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities
InterVarsity Christian Fellowship's Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) interrupts their regularly scheduled programming to bring you the transcript (with minor edits) of a presentation given by Bob Trube, Senior Area Director, IVCF/USA, at the IFES World Assembly (Oaxtepec, Mexico, 7/22/2015). In considering The University Today, Bob addresses four "change" forces in the university that offer both challenges to and opportunities for mission in the university. After presenting, he received a number of requests for … [Read more...] about The University Today: Challenges and Opportunities
Strength for the Journey, Part 1
Worship at the annual conference of InterVarsity's Black Scholars and Professionals (BSAP), 2015. Image courtesy of Boris Collins. ESN is delighted to share wisdom on continuing in the journey of higher education from Dr. Claudette Ligons, and to highlight the work of InterVarsity's Black Scholars and Professionals (BSAP). BSAP, a national ministry within InterVarsity, recently hosted its fifth annual conference in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Ligons spoke on persevering and growing in the academic life, a topic very relevant … [Read more...] about Strength for the Journey, Part 1