I'm pleased to introduce our second guest blogger of the summer and our first international correspondent. Kami L. Rice recently joined InterVarsity staff to work with graduate and professional students in Nashville, but she has extensive experience as a freelance writer with a large number of credits to her name. Kami is in the middle of a 4-week journey to India. She plans to connect with students and faculty while there, but she begins her series this week with reflections on a previous trip to India and on the … [Read more...] about Heading East: Kami in India
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The Well: How open are you about your faith?
I've mentioned The Well here on the blog before —it's a terrific resource put together by our colleagues with InterVarsity's Women in the Academy and Professions. While their focus is, well, women in the academy and professions, anyone interested in the navigating the intersection between Christianity and the academy ought to be reading The Well. One of their regular features is Dear Mentor, which poses a question to several experienced mentors from academia and the professional world. This month's The Well email … [Read more...] about The Well: How open are you about your faith?
How Do Christian Faculty Integrate Their Faith and Work?
Last week, InterVarsity hosted the 2011 Midwest Faculty Conference at Cedar Campus in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It's a beautiful place, as slideshows from the 2009 and 2010 conferences attest, and the conference intentionally makes space for both relaxation and intellectual engagement. (There is still space available at this year's West Coast Faculty Conference, by the way. If Michigan isn't your thing, how does Catalina Island sound?) It's a great conference, but not one that's terribly well-known in either … [Read more...] about How Do Christian Faculty Integrate Their Faith and Work?
What role does Christianity play in our scholarship?
I've been writing about George Marsden's talk to InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries at our recent staff conference. Over the last two weeks, I've written about Dr. Marsden's belief that metaphysical naturalism is losing its hold on the academy and his endorsement for methodological naturalism as an appropriate stance for Christian faculty. Last week, I shared the question that I asked him: Since we agree that methodological naturalism is a good way of doing academic work, but that privatization is a bad way … [Read more...] about What role does Christianity play in our scholarship?
Three Faith and Learning Links
First, my article "Faith and Faculty" has just been published on the InterVarsity homepage. The article relates how I came to be involved with the Emerging Scholars Network and why I care about Christian faculty and students. Here's a sneak peek: At the University of Louisville, I became an English major for some pretty shallow reasons: I wanted to read and write as much poetry and fiction as I could. When I came to faith in Christ during my junior year (with InterVarsity playing a central role), Christ gave me … [Read more...] about Three Faith and Learning Links