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Beginning Fall 2019: A Letter from ESN Director Bob Trube

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As we start the academic year, Bob encourages us from his experience as campus minister and ESN Director. Stay tuned for our weekly readings for individuals and groups, and some upcoming announcements for events in person and online. Image: Ohio State University. 


Scholarship is framed around what we do not know, the research questions we pursue in our work, or even the more down to earth questions of how we will complete all this work in our waking hours. Sometimes the unknown has to do with our own futures—questions that are scarier in many cases.

Perhaps a good place for scholar Christians to begin the year is reflecting upon what we do know connected with our faith. I might sum it up like this: God has created, loved, called, gifted, and destined us.

  • Created: How will I offer my created self, my body head to toe as a living sacrifice in the routines of my days and weeks?
  • Loved: How will I respond to the love of God in Christ in deepening that relationship through personal and corporate times of enjoying, and listening to, and communing with God?
  • Called: What opportunity in my work do I have to care for God’s world, and in my sphere of relationships to represent Christ?
  • Gifted: What do I enjoy doing and do well, and how might that be employed to advance God’s aims, God’s rule in the world?
  • Destined: How might I live as a person of hope and purpose in light of the truth that I will be raised and reign with Christ?

These five words work as a plot summary for the grand story in which we live. They situate our story within the great story of God. I easily forget the story and get caught up in other stories. Let me invite you as you begin your year to reflect on these five words, these five plot points of the great story. Might you set aside some time as part of your sabbath (you do take sabbaths, I hope) to reflect how God is inviting you further on in his story this year?

Yours on the scholarly journey,

Bob Trube, ESN Director

 

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Journalism Notes: Pressing On II

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In my last post I took some time to consider the ideas of legacy and success from a Christian perspective. When I die, how will people remember me? What will be my mark on the world? What impact will I have made on the lives of others?

I didn’t know at the time how apropos those words would be. Last Tuesday my grandmother died. On Saturday I gave the eulogy at her funeral. She was 94 years old. [Read more…] about Journalism Notes: Pressing On II

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Scholar’s Call: Every Christian is a Journalist

journalist photoAs part of our Scholar’s Call collection, Jeff Neely describes how being a believer and a journalist intersect in his experience, and points to some windows journalism gives us into practicing Christian faith, whatever our vocations.  [Read more…] about Scholar’s Call: Every Christian is a Journalist

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Book Review: Theology Remixed

Theology Remixed: Christianity as Story, Game, Language, Culture by Adam C. English. InterVarsity Press, 2012.

It seems we are in a time where thoughtful Christians are seeking fresh ways to express timeless truths. The challenge is to neither compromise nor change the truth in the process but to convey it in a way that captures this generation’s imagination.

In Theology Remixed: Christianity as Story, Game, Language, Culture, Adam C. English[1] attempts to do just that by coming up with four analogies for expressing the content of the Christian faith:

  • story
  • language
  • game
  • culture

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