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Week in Review

May 29, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

This is our weekly post of links, resources, and articles that would be helpful to ESN members. If you'd like to contribute something, please suggest it in the comments, or send it directly to either Tom or Mike. Update on the ESN Book Club: We've moved the dates back for our discussions to give you more time to order and start reading John Stott's Your Mind Matters. The discussions will now start June 9. Read all the details here. From Tom Psychology Grad Students Get Counseled on How to Teach:   Below are a few … [Read more...] about Week in Review

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: humanities, john piper, justification, Links, n. t. wright, physics, psychology, publishing, teaching, thomas aquinas

Week in Review

May 8, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson 1 Comment

[Editor's note: This is a new weekly feature from your blog contributors.   Each week, we'll be posting articles, books, news, etc., that Tom, Mike, and the ESN community have been pondering. If you have a book or article you'd like us to add to next week's Review, add it in the comments or send it to either Mike or Tom.   Thanks!] After Accepting Students, NYU Asks Them: Are We Too Costly for You? (Chronicle of Higher Education, $) - NYU is asking admitted students to consider whether they can truly afford to … [Read more...] about Week in Review

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Week in Review Tagged With: academic culture, Book recommendations, campus culture, college finances, community colleges, d. a. carson, fc08, john piper, john stott, kindle, Links, nyu, open source, sticky ideas, undergraduates, vocation

Keeping “to-do lists”

April 1, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Are to-do lists  a helpful tool to getting things done? Or do you find them frustratingly long and seemingly insurmountable? Or do you find them buried under papers or in old documents/post-it notes on your screen, wall, door?  Or do you somehow ignore to-do lists entirely? Thanks to Andy Crouch's 5 Questions post on to-do lists, I've had quite a few good conversations with friends and family on this topic. Two pastors of my local congregation have given some interesting feedback on the topic.  One quipped that he … [Read more...] about Keeping “to-do lists”

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Links, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: academic culture, andy crouch, culture-making, Links, technology, tools

Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2009 by Tom Grosh IV 3 Comments

Take a moment sometime today to consider The Real St. Patrick and invite others to do likewise.   Looking for some resources?   I'd encourage you to start with several  Christianity Today articles.   If you have additional suggestions, including books to recommend, please share below. Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit down, Christ in the heart of every man who … [Read more...] about Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice, Links Tagged With: culture-making, flourishing, hymns, Links, spiritual formation, St. Patrick, vocation

Dennett and Plantinga at APA

March 2, 2009 by Micheal Hickerson Leave a Comment

Longtime friend of ESN Jay Woodham shared this link on Facebook to an "opinionated play-by-play" of the dialogue between Christian philosopher Alvin Plantinga and atheist philosopher Daniel Dennett at the recent American Philosophical Association meeting. It's a very interesting read, both the blog post and the comments, about a discussion between two of the leading philosophers in academia today. The contributor admits his bias towards Plantinga, so read it for what it's worth, though some of his judgments are … [Read more...] about Dennett and Plantinga at APA

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: atheism, Links, philosophy, science

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