The Easter season is a natural time for Christians to reflect on miracles, as the resurrection of Jesus is the central miracle of our tradition.Read more…
Healing
Dear LORD. May we remember your marvels throughout creation and in all nations. May Your people continue to look for the awesome things You will do with us. Amen. (A prayer based on Exodus 34:10)Read more…
Lenten Healing in the Psalms
Healing occurs because we are directed to dependence on Christ.Read more…
Lent: Public and Private Healing
Lent is a time of healing.Read more…
Teaching Tips: Letter from a Praying Teacher
For more than twenty years, I have enjoyed teaching a variety of ages and stages from pre-school to college.Read more…
Next Steps for ESN — Prayer
Let us pray as we engage the coming week on campus and as we consider next steps for the Emerging Scholars Network.Read more…
July 2017 Prayer Post
As we start July, would you pray with us at ESN?Read more…
How I found Mentors
Three years ago, I had no idea how to obtain a mentor or how you would go about finding one. Through God’s grace, I’ve actually found three mentors since then in different ways.Read more…
Unroll the Scroll (Scholar’s Compass)
No, the king is not responding to another rejected journal article submission or to a reminder about his impending student loan payment. He is not unfurling the scroll version of the Chronicle of Higher Education decrying the lack of jobs for PhDs in the Humanities in the 8th century B.C.E.Read more…
Pray for ESN Team Meetings This Week
ESN has grown dramatically as a community since I began working for InterVarsity two years ago, and it’s so exciting to see new connections flourishing. Like Paul, I find myself thanking God as I remember you all, ESN’s faithful readers and supporters. . . . Pray for us as we meet this week to continue to respond to God’s call to come alongside and partner with Emerging Scholars.Read more…
Pray for the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) in June
Praise God for growing opportunities to support grassroots networking among Christian academics, growing conference opportunities, and more. Read more…
ESN Prayer Post
Ah, May—the time of long spring walks, balmy breezes, and final papers/grades/classes/committee meetings/all of the above. Read more…
Easter Sunday (Prayer)
O God, who didst make this most holy night to shine with the glory of the Lord’s resurrection . . .Read more…
Palm Sunday (Prayer)
Almighty and everliving God, who, of thy tender love towards mankind, hast sent thy Son our Savior Jesus Christ to take upon him our flesh . . .Read more…
Fifth Sunday of Lent (Prayer)
O Almighty God, who alone canst order the unruly wills and affections of sinful men . . .Read more…
Fourth Sunday of Lent (Prayer)
Gracious Father, whose blessed Son Jesus Christ came down from heaven to be the true bread . . . Read more…
Third Sunday of Lent (Prayer)
Stir up thy power, O Lord, and with great might come among us.Read more…
Second Sunday of Lent (Prayer)
O God, whose glory it is always to have mercy: Be gracious to all who have gone astray from thy ways . . . Read more…
First Sunday of Lent (Prayer)
In recognition of the first Sunday of Lent, ESN shares this prayer. Scholar’s Compass will continue to run during Lent, but may appear during the week to give space for brief Lenten prayers and sometimes prayer requests on Sundays. Read more…
Scholar’s Call: A Theologian Praying
How does your understanding of Christian theology/spirituality shape your discipline if you are a theologian? David Russell Mosley explores. Read more…
Listen: Suffering, Part 5
Practice the 55-5 rule. Francis Schaeffer, famed 20th century apologist-theologian, used to say that if you spend one hour in conversation, 55 minutes should be listening and asking questions. We should only hear ourselves talking for 5 minutes.Read more…
Hands: Suffering, Part 2 (Scholar’s Compass)
When it happened, some turned away, others vomited, more cried, a few collapsed. But one, Luke Hancock, ran to hold his friend’s hand, praying for him.Read more…
Book Review: Is Your Lord Large Enough?
In “Is Your Lord Large Enough?”, Peter J. Schakel turns to the writing of C.S. Lewis on topics concerning the formation of Christians and provides a “digest” of Lewis’s writing around key topics drawn from his letters, fiction, and non-fiction books and essays. Read more…
Finding Rest (Scholar’s Compass)
What does rest mean if you’re coming up for tenure and working for as many lines on the CV as possible, if your course planning is complex, if your dissertation seems to be an endless cascade of new and complicated research tasks that lead from one to another? Read more…