During Lent, ESN will be publishing a series of posts on navigating issues of justice as Christians in academic life. This pursuit takes a variety of shapes, and we'll be sharing the words of academics from a wide range of disciplinary commitments and personal experiences. Scholar Mary Poplin starts off the series. God does not call everyone to work with the poor, like He called us. And God does not call everyone to live among the poor or to live like the poor, like He has called us. But God does call everyone to … [Read more...] about Justice and Righteousness are the Foundations of His Throne (Scholar’s Compass)
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Devotions: Beatitudes (5) —Mercy
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy. -- Matthew 5:7 Probably next to love, no other character quality so defines God as that of "mercy". And he said, “I will make all my goodness pass before you and will proclaim before you my name ‘The LORD.' And I will be gracious to whom I will be gracious, and will show mercy on whom I will show mercy." -- Exodus 33:19 "Remember your mercy, O LORD, and your steadfast love, for they have been from of old." -- Psalm 25:6 "Have mercy on me, O God, according … [Read more...] about Devotions: Beatitudes (5) —Mercy
Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure
http://vimeo.com/16627829 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? Do you find yourself, both as an individual and as part of the Body of Christ, stepping into the new heavens and the new earth? When the Caller speaks, whether in the midst of the mundane or the extraordinary, are you embracing the call? … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: An “Advent”-ure
Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?
Probes: 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? How have you received affirmation/fulfillment in the blessing of Christ's call and following Christ's call? Defining legacy 1. Law. a gift of property, especially personal property, as money, by will; a bequest 2. anything handed down from the past, as from an ancestor or predecessor: the legacy of ancient Rome -- From … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: What is My Legacy?
Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .
What do you think about . . . The nature of calling in the formal work of the church? Our need to recognize God's call and act in faithful response to it: in personal actions and obedience? in ways modeled by Mother Teresa as recorded by Mary Poplin in Finding Calcutta: What Mother Teresa Taught Me About Meaningful Work and Service (InterVarsity Press. 2008)? Calling to Formal Ministry with the Church Mother Teresa's special calling to start the Missionaries of Charity in ministry to the … [Read more...] about Finding Calcutta: I’m not called to be Mother Teresa, but . . .