As I mentioned in Wisdom Chaser: Insights on Parent-Child Relationships, I found reading Wisdom Chaser: Finding My Father at 14,000 Feet (Nathan Foster. InterVarsity Press. 2010) to be a great blessing. In follow-up, I contacted Nathan Foster (Assistant Professor of Social Work, Spring Arbor University, Spring Arbor, MI) to chat about some topics which I thought would be particularly applicable to members of the Emerging Scholars Network.
First we’ll explore how a private person, such as Nathan, wrote such an open book about his life, struggles, family, and vocation. In coming weeks we’ll explore …
- becoming a wisdom chaser in higher education
- discerning the call to higher education
- being present to one’s family
- power in the classroom from the perspective of the teacher
- taking the first steps in teaching
- how InterVarsity Christian Fellowship can journey with academics
And in case you were wondering, Nathan is following the series and would love to respond to your comments. So please, take advantage of the opportunity!
Thomas B. Grosh IV: How do you come to write something so personal? Did you have a sense from the start that you’d be writing something like that or were you just keeping a journal and it became a book? How does that happen? How did writing a book about your journey up mountains with your father come to your mind?
Nathan Foster: I always knew I wanted to write. I was just waiting for the right project to come along. It is probably no coincidence that when I write it tends to be very honest, somewhat raw. That just personally fits me. Most things that I do, I try to have that flavor. So that’s how my relationships go. Some of that just stems back to
- growing up and just wanting things to be honest and real.
- being a counselor and therapist, where you’re dealing with real life stuff and you lose interest in playing games. [Read more…] about Chasing Wisdom with Nathan Foster