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 onRead more…
Week in Review
[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 likeRead more…
Keeping “to-do lists”
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 youRead more…
Celebrating St. Patrick’s Day
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, pleaseRead more…
Dennett and Plantinga at APA
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,Read more…
Following Christ 08 resources coming on-line
On InterVarsity’s main website, one can find two articles Honoring God at Work Human Flourishing AND two audio files Why Aren’t We Flourishing? — Opening Plenary by MaryKate Morse, Professor of Leadership and Spiritual Formation at George Fox University. Time:Read more…
Happy Birthday, John!
Today is John Milton’s 400th birthday – or, rather, would have been. If you choose to celebrate this occasion, you can visit the John Milton Reading Room at Dartmouth, which contains ALL of Milton’s poetry (in English, Italian, Latin, andRead more…
Warranted Christian Belief and CCEL
The Christian Classics Ethereal Library is an incredible resource for theological and devotional classics. It specializes in free or low-cost public domain books. For example, don’t have $300 to plunk down for an entire edition of the Ante-Nicene, Nicene, andRead more…
New Technology and Academic Research
A few links to pass along, regarding connections between new technology and academic research. The Chronicle’s Wired Campus blog last week reported on academic uses for Google Earth, such as a map of county-by-county election results, dating back to 1840.Read more…
New Podcast Series from Christianity Today
Christianity Today has launched a new podcasting series featuring “editorials, news and books commentaries” (iTunes link). I just subscribed, and noticed that it looks like ESN partner Books & Culture will be featured regularly. There are already two podcasts withRead more…
Fellowship Opportunity in Humanities and Social Sciences
Here’s a good opportunity to help you finish your Ph.D.: The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship. From their website: The Charlotte W. Newcombe Doctoral Dissertation Fellowships are designed to encourage original and significant study of ethical or religious valuesRead more…
Political Expression on Campus
Is there an election this year or something? Obviously, politics is on everyone’s minds, but I don’t want to get into a debate about politics, but rather a debate about, er, politics. Specifically, political expression on campus by faculty. Recently,Read more…
Who do you trust? Google and information gathering
How do we find, evaluate, share, and use on-line resources/data? In this morning’s Daily Report from The Chronicle of Higher Education, I came across the post Thinking About Truth, Lies, and the Power of Google. The flow of comments focused upon librarians, the vettingRead more…
Links
Science Out in the Open Young scientists making their research results open to the public, challenging the standard means of publishing results, and opening themselves up to criticism. Out in the Open (Boston Globe) (HT: Culture Making) Historically Black CollegesRead more…
Finding the Fit at a Small College
The Chronicle of Higher Education‘s On Hiring blog posted last week about finding a fit at small colleges. Some faculty relish their work at small liberal arts colleges, while others find the atmosphere burdensome. The post and the comments thatRead more…
The Making of an Economist
In Books & Culture, Robert Whaples, professor of economics at Wake Forest, reviews the updated The Making of an Economist (Redux), an examination of the country’s best graduate programs in economics and the process by which they “turn a selectRead more…
Links of the Week
Christian Colleges Increase Diversity Inside Higher Ed, citing an analysis from the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, notes that a number of colleges affiliated with ESN’s partner, the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities, have seen a dramatic increaseRead more…
ESN Mentors on the Immanent Frame
Two of our mentors, Joel Carpenter and Brian Howell, are contributors on The Immanent Frame, a blog about secularism, religion, and the public square published by the Social Science Research Council. Here are a couple of their recent posts: JoelRead more…