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.” Jesus is Savior and Lord. We want to know His calling for our lives. We want to know His calling for our lives together in the Church. It is personal – “Serving Jesus” versus “Serving People” (or "Serving Causes"). It cannot be about us either too much, i.e., going it alone, or too little, i.e., I'm just an insignificant part of … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: Where am I now? Is this my calling?
Mary Poplin
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)? My struggle to write this book, to tell the truth about Mother Teresa, and my struggles in the university are a testimony both to a lost public conversation and to a worldview that is very difficult for many in Western culture to comprehend fully, even some of us who profess Christ.”” -- Mary Poplin. Finding Calcutta. Accessed … [Read more...] about An invitation to discuss “Finding Calcutta” by Mary Poplin
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, you might want to review our new Top Posts page to get a feel for what we cover. Tom Grosh and I view the blog as an online community of ESN members, so I look forward to reading your comments and contributions. A couple of friends tipped me off to this intriguing story in the New York … [Read more...] about Would you major in Secularism?
“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 higher education. As you may remember from The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar and Appendix A of Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service, Mary considers it part of her call/Calcutta to challenge the gods of our age as they reign on … [Read more...] about “Finding Our Calcutta” on Campus
ESN: “An essential & growing movement”
In follow-up to The Unlikely Conversion of a Radical Scholar, below is a word from Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University, regarding the value of the Emerging Scholars Network: The Emerging Scholars Network is an essential and growing movement to help support Christian academicians in articulating their field as it is informed by the Christian worldview and to help encourage promising Christian graduate students to become professors. Unless we can increase the boldness of current faculty and … [Read more...] about ESN: “An essential & growing movement”