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Book Review: Faith-Rooted Organizing, by Rev. Alexia Salvatierra and Peter Heltzel

June 16, 2016 by Bob Trube No Comments

Summary: Most advocacy and activism efforts have been organized around secular principles. The authors explore what organizing and advocacy work that is deeply and thoroughly rooted in Christian principles would look like and illustrate this from their years of experience.

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion Tagged With: advocacy, Alexia Salvatierra, Book Review, Cesar Chavez, community, Community organizing, intervarsity press, justice, leadership, Ministry, Peter Heltzel, Saul Alinsky

Navigating Beginnings: Glory-Seeking Ministry in the Academic Life (Scholar’s Compass)

September 9, 2014 by W. Brian Lane 2 Comments

Physics Professor W. Brian Lane on how he came to see teaching physics as a way of seeking God’s glory.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Love Your Academic Discipline, Scholar's Compass Tagged With: C.S. Lewis Foundation, campus ministry, Chorister’s Prayer of the Royal College of Church Music, Christian Study Center, Christian Study Center of Gainesville, creation, devotional, Faculty, faith and vocation, Imagebearer, Love Your Academic Discipline, Ministry, Navigating Beginnings, physics, professor, Scholar's Compass, science and faith, spiritual formation, The Four Loves

Rejection

July 2, 2013 by Kate Peterson 4 Comments

Note:  This post was written nearly a year ago, but only recently submitted to the blog. I had a new experience recently. I guess I’m a bit behind, since many people have been dealing with this for decades. But it’s new to me, and I want to share it with you. For the first time […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Finding Your Voice Tagged With: feminism, leadership, Ministry, rejection, submission

What Is Ministry?

May 21, 2013 by Micheal Hickerson 3 Comments

About 18 months ago, I stepped down from my position as Associate Director of the Emerging Scholars Network and handed the reins over to my faithful coworker Tom Grosh. I kept my toe in the world of campus ministry by continuing to write for InterVarsity and leading a seminar at Urbana, but at the end […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Vocation Tagged With: discipleship, ephesians, Ministry, Psalms, regent college, work

Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .

November 10, 2011 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

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.”

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Book Review/Discussion, Christ, Christ and the Academy, Christian Thought and Practice Tagged With: calling, church, Finding Calcutta, humility, Love, Mary Poplin, Ministry, Mother Teresa, Obedience, Prayer, vocation, work

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