“Mission without spiritual formation and virtue is impossible. But spiritual formation without mission is solipsistic.” - Greg Thompson, heard by author Reflection What, if anything, does my spiritual life have to do with my work life? Better yet, what does my spiritual life have to do with my life's work? Is my specific vocation incidental or irrelevant to my spiritual formation? Or do these aspects of my life converge somehow? Similarly, are evangelical witness and the integration of faith and scholarship mutually … [Read more...] about Missio Dei: The Context of Our Callings (Scholar’s Compass)
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A Spirituality of Graduate School: Mission and Formation (Scholar’s Compass)
Greg Thompson once said in my hearing, “Mission without spiritual formation and virtue is impossible. But spiritual formation without mission is solipsistic.” Head pastor of Trinity Presbyterian Church in Charlottesville, associate fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, and Executive Director of New City Commons (a think tank devoted to exploring the intersections of the Church's mission and contemporary culture), Greg is the consummate pastor-scholar and generally when he … [Read more...] about A Spirituality of Graduate School: Mission and Formation (Scholar’s Compass)
A Dialogical Campus Ministry
"I'm still waiting to read a scientific paper that gives a biological explanation of the emergence of biological science among us human beings, also a naturalist account of what motivates people to become evolutionary psychologists and why others are impressed by their explanations." -- A taste of the pointed wit which draws one into Part 3 of Vinoth Ramachandra's Engaging the University (22:04). As you my remember from Part 2, the recording cut off as he began a "defense of the human." Ramachandra focuses on … [Read more...] about A Dialogical Campus Ministry
A Mission to the University: Part 2 of Engaging the University
Part 2 of Vinoth Ramachandra's Engaging the University (21:22) is packed. After exploring the broad topics of funding's push toward instrumentalism, the fragmentation of campus academic life by global communication, and the lack of "any coherent master narrative for a central point of reference . . . to evaluate the relationship of . . . parcels of knowledge to other parcels or to weigh their relative importance," Ramachandra considers three challenges which Christians face in engaging the … [Read more...] about A Mission to the University: Part 2 of Engaging the University
A Mission to the University: Part 1 of Engaging the University
"Dr. Ramachandra is a theologian and an activist whose work engages with the context of his native Sri Lanka, a country whose long conflict has often been drawn along ethnic and religious lines, and his familiarity with student networks in Asia and across the globe. He gained a bachelors degree and a doctorate from Imperial College, London, in nuclear engineering. For many years he has worked for the International Fellowship of Evangelical Students [IFES], presently as Secretary for Dialogue & Social … [Read more...] about A Mission to the University: Part 1 of Engaging the University