“In every field, we can engage students in reflecting on truth . . .” let’s explore this further with Mary Poplin
On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love
Mary Poplin offers a personal statement that describes her call as a Christian professor in a secular university. Read more…
Takeaways from “Is Reality Secular?”
Mary Poplin responds to the question, “What do you desire to be the top takeaways for readers of Is Reality Secular?”Read more…
Snapshots of Four Global Worldviews (Mary Poplin)
Note: In the first post of the Is Reality Secular? series, Mary Poplin shared what led her to write her new InterVarsity Press publication. Tom: I have found Is Reality Secular? truly serving as a “resource for living in and actively influencing our culture without being overtaken by it.” Thank-youRead more…
Mary Poplin on “Is Reality Secular?”
Why did you write the book, Is Reality Secular? Mary: Actually I think I just never stopped writing the Appendix of Finding Calcutta after it went to press in 2008. . . .Read more…
Is Reality Secular? Part 2
What is real? . . . If you’re talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain (43) Material Naturalism With the above quoteRead more…
Is Reality Secular? Part 1
Is reality secular? Is adequate knowledge secular? And is that something that has been established as a fact by thorough and unbiased inquiry? Is this something that today’s secular universities thoroughly and freely discuss in a disciplined way? (11) MaryRead more…
Is Reality Secular?
I am glad to call attention to this book by Mary Poplin of Claremont Graduate University. Is Reality Secular? is a challenge, by an insider to the secularism that is now assumed, with no significant evaluation, to be the height ofRead more…
What Books Should We Suggest at Urbana 12?
In only 15 days, ESN will be joining 18,000 of our closest friends at Urbana 12, InterVarsity’s triennial missions conference. As in years past, we’ll have an exhibitor table, and I’ll be hosting a seminar on “Serving Christ as a Professor.” OneRead more…
Would You Support ESN With An End-of-the-Year Gift?
If you’re an official member of the Emerging Scholars Network, then you’ve received my recent end-of-the-year emails. (If you aren’t an ESN member, then why not join right now?) These updates share the good news of ESN’s recent activities and inviteRead more…
Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure
Have you found yourself on an Advent-ure as we’ve considered Finding Calcutta? Do you find yourself longing for and waiting upon the coming of the Lord in your life, your neighborhood, your discipline, your campus, your nation, the creation?Read more…
Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?
How would you articulate the gulf between a secular legacy, one of the world’s primary measures of a life’s work, and faithful fulfillment of Christian calling?Read more…
Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .
As Mother Teresa said, “You can do something I cannot do. I can do something you cannot do. Together let us do something beautiful for God.”Read more…
Finding Calcutta: “call awareness” w/o losing “Caller dependence”
Questions to explore: What is the definition of calling? What are biblical characteristics of “finding” one’s calling? Who comes to mind as examples of biblical characters who “found” their calling? What are sins that undermine our calling and we shouldRead more…
Finding Calcutta: Find yourself in doing, not criticizing
What are spiritual principles for our attitude and our actions in pursuing God’s calling? How are attitude, action and audience are part of our calling?Read more…
Finding Calcutta: Jesus’ Call to Us – “Follow Me.”
How do we identify and describe the various aspects of our Christian calling? What is the difference between the Christian understanding of calling to the popular secular use of the term?Read more…
Finding Calcutta: Prayer and Our Calling
How do we understand the role of prayer in seeking our calling with the Father? In what manner may the prayers, spiritual direction, and ministry of Mother Teresa, offer some guidance as we seek to understand and live our own calling by God.Read more…
Finding Calcutta: How do I get there? How should I prepare for the journey?
“Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage” (Psalm 84). . . . How do you recognize, articulate, and carry out the relationship of Christian calling for vocation with your life’s journey in Christ? Who holds you accountable in the daily grind across the various “spheres” through which you travel?Read more…
Finding Calcutta: To make possible true inner silence, practice
In follow up to “Finding Calcutta: Where is Calcutta? Somewhere beyond (just) ourselves,” below is a meditation for reflection upon our calling.Read more…
Finding Calcutta: Where is Calcutta? Somewhere beyond (just) ourselves.
Calcutta is … Calcutta is not …Read more…
Finding Calcutta: Where am I now? Is this my calling?
As we open “Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service” (Mary Poplin. IVP. 2008), let’s begin by wrestling with “Finding (my/your) Calcutta.”Read more…
An invitation to discuss “Finding Calcutta” by Mary Poplin
With our limited time, energy, finances, blog attention spans, why focus on Mary Poplin’s “Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service” (IVP. 2008)?Read more…
Would you major in Secularism?
First of all, welcome to the new blog subscribers from the annual Emerging Scholars Network member survey! Thank you for completing the survey and letting us know how ESN can improve. If you haven’t been reading the blog regularly, youRead more…
“Finding Our Calcutta” on Campus
Over the past several days in venue after venue across Pittsburgh and South Central PA, I heard Mary Poplin, Professor of Education at Claremont Graduate University, share not only her testimony, but also the cost of following Christ in higherRead more…