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Trusting in the Lord in a Secular Workplace or Job Security in Academia

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On the road to listen to* Faculty & Student/Post-Doc's at a major research university discuss Trusting in the Lord in a Secular Workplace or Job Security in Academia over lunch, description below.   If you were present for the conversation, what would you share?   Some of my thoughts later, gotta run. ... Proverbs 3:5 and Psalm 18:2 speak to the importance of trusting in the Lord in times of trial.   The recent Veritas Forum topic on truth and academia and the tragedy at the University of Alabama-Huntsville over a … [Read more...] about Trusting in the Lord in a Secular Workplace or Job Security in Academia

Week in Review: Education Edition

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What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. New online journal for student research: The Chronicle reports on Student Pulse, a new online journal for student research. Some good points from the Chronicle's commenters about copyright and usage issues, but still an interesting and inspiring … [Read more...] about Week in Review: Education Edition

Week in Review: The Valiant Return Edition

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What are you reading, watching, thinking about this week? As usual, here's a few which have been on our mind. Let us know your thoughts on any/all of them. If you have items you'd like us to consider for the top five, add them in the comments or send them to Tom or Mike. 1. Alan Jacobs' Grad School Thoughts: Should you go to grad school? "Probably not," writes Alan Jacobs, Wheaton English professor and author of Original Sin, The Narnian, A Theology of Reading, and many other excellent things.   But if you insist, … [Read more...] about Week in Review: The Valiant Return Edition

Your Mind Matters 2: Why Use Our Minds?

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In the section entitled thinking God's thoughts, John Stott argues Psalm 19:1-4 and Romans 1:18-21 refer to God's self-revelation through the created order.   Although it is a proclamation without speech, a voice without words, yet as a result of it all men to some degree "know God."   This assumed ability of man to read what God has written in the universe is extremely important.   All scientific research depends upon it, upon a correspondence between the character of what is being investigated and the mind of the … [Read more...] about Your Mind Matters 2: Why Use Our Minds?