InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network
I recommend Can a Scientist Believe in Miracles? An MIT Professor Answers Questions on God and Science by Ian Hutchinson (and related videos) as a resource for personal questions, conversation, an interactive discussion group, and / or presentation preparation.Read more…
Summary: This book comes out of the world of academic research and proposes that the process of questioning our doubts as well as our faith builds bridges of understanding deepening both our exercise of reason and confidence in our faith.Read more…
Are you an emerging scholar in the sciences looking for someone to answer your questions about graduate school, career choices, life/work balance, and more?Read more…
We must listen with all our might, with all our will to discern, laying aside our very human desire to be right with a prayer that we may be faithful. – Marilyn Chandler McEntyre, Caring for Words in a Culture ofRead more…
“For you bring some strange things to our ears. We wish to know therefore what these things mean.” Now all the Athenians and the foreigners who lived there would spend their time in nothing except telling or hearing something new.Read more…
What books are on your Christmas lists, not only your own wish list, but also ones you desire to give to others and/or suggest for a book discussion in the coming year? I am very interested in learning what Emerging Scholars desireRead more…
“The challenge [to seeing the big picture and living in light of the truth] is that every religion claims to grant such heavenly insight, and many peer groups will pull together to defend what is common sense at least toRead more…
We received these wise words from a faculty friend of ESN. If you would like to contribute to the Emerging Scholars Blog, anonymously or otherwise, please contact me. Thank-you! ~ Tom Asking open-ended questions is often the best way to begin aRead more…
In my longer conversations with students and faculty at Urbana 09*, I’ve asked How can the ESN blog best serve you in 2010? What are some topics you’d like to see receive attention, or more attention? Below you’ll find some of theRead more…
Last week, I wrote about Advent, so, in true American fashion, I’m skipping straight ahead to Christmas. 🙂 (Don’t worry – I believe Tom is taking a more spiritual approach this week.) Yesterday was my three four-year-old daughter’s birthday, andRead more…