Thank-you to Mark Eckel for sharing insights with Emerging Scholars as they seek to engage the new year and their particular context with wisdom. Note: Earlier posts in the Scholar's Compass Learning to Live Together series: Approach, Disagreement. For Mark's previous work for the blog click here. To God be the glory! ~ Tom Grosh IV, Assoc. Dir., ESN … [Read more...] about Discernment
Proverbs
Wisdom: Cosmic, Practical and Playful (Scholar’s Compass)
[W]hen he assigned to the sea its limit, so that the waters might not transgress his command, when he marked out the foundations of the earth, then I was beside him, like a master workman, and I was daily his delight, rejoicing before him always, rejoicing in his inhabited world and delighting in the children of man. (Proverbs 8:29-31) … [Read more...] about Wisdom: Cosmic, Practical and Playful (Scholar’s Compass)
Dining with Lady Wisdom (Scholar’s Compass)
I want to find where the maid in the street Is pouring her wine. I heard she takes you in and gives you the words You need said. If you'll be her brother, She'll kiss you like a sister. She'll even be your mother for now. (“Sister, Mother” – from the album Sixpence None the Richer; lyrics by Matt Slocum) … [Read more...] about Dining with Lady Wisdom (Scholar’s Compass)
Navigating Wisdom: How Wisdom Calls Out in the Streets
Wisdom cries aloud in the street, in the markets she raises her voice; at the head of the noisy streets she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks: “How long, O simple ones, will you love being simple? How long will scoffers delight in their scoffing and fools hate knowledge? If you turn at my reproof, behold, I will pour out my spirit to you; I will make my words known to you. -- Proverbs 1:20-23 (ESV) Reflection Holy Hubert used to visit my … [Read more...] about Navigating Wisdom: How Wisdom Calls Out in the Streets
Scholar’s Compass Navigating Wisdom: How I Fell in Love with the Library
To know wisdom and instruction, to understand words of insight, to receive instruction in wise dealing, in righteousness, justice, and equity; to give prudence to the simple, knowledge and discretion to the youth— Let the wise hear and increase in learning, and the one who understands obtain guidance, to understand a proverb and a saying, the words of the wise and their riddles. Proverbs 1:2-6 ESV Reflection The book of Proverbs begins with the statement of purpose above. One of the purposes of … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass Navigating Wisdom: How I Fell in Love with the Library