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ESN Local: Malice Toward None; Charity for All

December 6, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Fellow-Countrymen . . .  With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his orphan, to do all which may achieve and cherish a just and lasting peace among ourselves and with all nations.  - Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address (March, 4, 1865). On Sunday, November 30, John Fea (Chair, Dept of History, … [Read more...] about ESN Local: Malice Toward None; Charity for All

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, ESN Local Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Christian Scholar Series, Elizabethtown Brethren in Christ Church, history, John Fea, Messiah College, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation

Why Does God Suffer?

March 8, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

2012 Lenten Reflection Series Sweeping Up the Heart: A Father's Lament for His Daughter  (Paul Nisly.  Good Books, 1992) provides both a raw and a rich narrative of a Messiah College English professor's  wrestling with God (and himself) after his daughter Janelle's death. As you may remember from  last week, several months after her Messiah College graduation and the beginning of the practice of nursing, Janelle was struck by a  tractor-trailer rig. The truck rear-ended several cars, then smashed over into the … [Read more...] about Why Does God Suffer?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science, lent, Messiah College, Paul Nisly, Sweeping Up the Heart, vocation

Lent brings me back to reflections on loss, grief, suffering

March 1, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

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2012 Lenten Reflection Series Last week I began the 2012 series with  Entering Lent: “I Want” in Higher Education. As you may remember, Kent Annan's    After Shock  saturated my 2011 Lenten reflection. With Kent's recent visit to South Central PA and the deep chord which "I Want" struck not only with me, but also a number of the students with whom I watched it, I wondered if my 2012 reflections would largely draw from his earlier book  Following Jesus Through the Eye of the Needle  (InterVarsity Press, 2009). … [Read more...] about Lent brings me back to reflections on loss, grief, suffering

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: After Shock, Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science, Christian Scholar Series, Grove City College, Hearts & Minds Books, James Downey, Kent Annan, lent, Messiah College, Owen Gingerich, Paul Nisly, scot mcknight, Sweeping Up the Heart, Ted Davis, The Book Nobody Read, vocation

Deploying Vocational Power: Four Pathways

January 19, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

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Amy Sherman begins Chapter 8 of  Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good  (InterVarsity Press, 2011) with a bang! Jesus is actually looking for people He can trust with His power. --  Dallas Willard Faithful vocational stewardship is not only about  doing,  it's also about  being.  To deploy their vocational power for the common good, believers must possess a character that handles this power humbly and eschews its misuse. This is why discipling for vocational stewardship involves not only the work … [Read more...] about Deploying Vocational Power: Four Pathways

Filed Under: Christ, Christ and the Academy, Public Intellectuals, Vocation Tagged With: Amy Sherman, andy crouch, blooming where you're planted, books, Center on Faith in Communities, common good, creation, culture-making, dallas willard, Fall, Head Heart Hands, higher education, Kim Phipps, Kingdom Calling, Messiah College, power, Revelation, righteous, Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, Spiderman, vocation, vocational stewardship

Interview: Ted Davis, the Story of a Historian of Science

July 21, 2010 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

In preparation for next week's 65th Annual Meeting of the American Scientific Affiliation,* I interviewed the outgoing ASA President, Edward B. (“Ted”) Davis.   As you may remember from an earlier post, Ted serves as the Distinguished Professor of the History of Science at Messiah College (Grantham, PA), and directs the Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science.   Our conversation focused upon what sparked his interest in studying the History of Science, tips for Emerging Scholars seeking academic … [Read more...] about Interview: Ted Davis, the Story of a Historian of Science

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Interview, Science, Science and Faith Tagged With: American Scientific Affiliation, ASA, Central Pennsylvania Forum for Religion and Science, Drexel, faculty interview, Hans Rookmaaker, History of Science, interviews, L'Abri, Messiah College, Ted Davis, Ted Davis interview

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