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Gender, Calling, and Courage: Lessons from Christian Women in Academia

December 28, 2015 by Rebecca Carlson No Comments

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.

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Filed Under: Urbana2015 Tagged With: calling, family, higher education, liveblogging, loneliness, singleness, urbana, urbana15, vocation, women, Women in the Academy and Professions

Addressing Loneliness in 2014

January 13, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo. Yes, I posted The Innovation of Loneliness in Reclaiming Conversations (9/12/2013) when considering some of the work of Sherry Turkle and offering Transformative Conversations as a resource. But the recent attention given to Saving the Lost Art of Conversation: In a fast-paced digital age, an MIT psychologist tries to slow us […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Finding Your Voice, Science and Faith, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: ESN hubs, loneliness, Reclaiming Conversations, Saving the Lost Art of Communication, Sherry Turkle, technology, The Innovation of Loneliness, Transformative Conversations

Reclaiming Conversations?

September 12, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

“Reclaiming conversations, that’s the next frontier.” — Sherry Turkle‘s [1] concluding line to her TEDxUIUC 2011 presentation Alone Together. This morning David O’Hara’s Can I Ask Questions In Church? [2] spurred me to read Jaweed Kaleem’s Keeping Alive The Big Questions [3]. In Kaleem’s resource rich article I once again came across Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Mentoring, Science and Faith Tagged With: Alone Together, conversation, loneliness, Mentoring, Reclaiming Conversations, Sherry Turkle, technology, Transformative Conversations

Henri Nouwen: A Creative Response (from Loneliness to Solitude)

March 6, 2012 by Micheal Hickerson No Comments

I’m concluding my series on Henri Nouwen’s book Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life with the final chapter from his first section, which deals with the movement from loneliness to solitude. For several days before I began reading this chapter, I had not responded well to events at home, such as my […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: henri nouwen, loneliness, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life, solitude, thomas merton

Henri Nouwen: What’s the cure for loneliness?

February 21, 2012 by Micheal Hickerson 1 Comment

Last week, I began blogging through the first section of Henri Nouwen‘s Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life (to read the first post click here). The first movement – from loneliness to solitude – struck a chord within me, as I reflected that graduate school can be a lonely time and place for […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: community, henri nouwen, loneliness, reaching out, Reaching Out: The Three Movements of the Spiritual Life, thomas merton

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