As we celebrate joyfully in this season, we often tidy frequently. Mark Eckel describes how the act of housekeeping fits into our spiritual lives, letting us enter into many of the same modes of experience Christian scholars often seek in humanities study. Reading “I understood with a clarity that I have experienced at few other times in my life, that getting to the grocery store was one of the things that Really Mattered. The dissertation could wait; dinner could not’I measured my days by whether, at the end of … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Housework is Anything but Ordinary
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Book Club Post Later Today
Normally, we here at the Emerging Scholars Blog like to get our posts up first thing the morning, so that you (our loyal reader) can enjoy some reading while you have your morning coffee and delay checking your email. Well, the best laid plans etc. etc. This week's ESN Book Club post on Chapter Four, "What Difference Could It Possibly Make?", will be up later this afternoon. Thanks for your patience! (Assuming, of course, that you are being patient. If not, I've got some Bible studies you could read....) … [Read more...] about Book Club Post Later Today
Comments Are Fixed
We apologize if you have tried to comment on any posts. We weren't just pretending to be open to dialogue while secretly preferring a monologue: there was a bug in the blog software preventing comments from posting. But it's all fixed now! Amen! … [Read more...] about Comments Are Fixed
Welcome!
Welcome to the new Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) blog! [8/21/2008] We have created this blog as a supplement to the main ESN website, to direct you to useful resources for emerging Christian scholars around the web and to offer some "first thoughts" about issues affecting Christian scholars in the secular academy. Some of the topics that we'll cover will include: Advice for preparing for, flourishing in, and successfully leaving graduate school. Resources to connect you with like-minded scholars. New … [Read more...] about Welcome!