"People in a hurry never have time for recovery. Their minds have little time to meditate and pray so that problems can be put in perspective. In short, people in our age are showing signs of physiological disintegration because we are living at a pace that is too fast for our bodies." -- Archibald Hart in Adrenaline and Stress. Quoted by Adele Ahlberg Calhoun in Spiritual Disciplines Handbook: Practices That Transform Us (InterVarsity Press, 2005), italics in Calhoun. This summer a mix of graduate students and … [Read more...] about What exhausts you?
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What I Wish I’d Known: Balancing Life and Graduate School
Before joining ESN staff as a writer/editor in 2014, Hannah Eagleson wrote her series What I Wish I'd Known About Graduate School just after finishing her PhD in 2011. As promised in my last post, here I'm talking about some things I wish I'd known (or just done!) early on to balance my life and my graduate work. 1. Make worship central Graduate school can feel exhausting and terrifying. The pressure of continuing to produce and trying to impress professors and colleagues can make school seem like the … [Read more...] about What I Wish I’d Known: Balancing Life and Graduate School
Sabbath for Academics
In March 2009, Gordon Smith was the main speaker for InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministries' staff meetings. The theme of the gathering was spiritual formation. Note: Emerging Scholars may recognize his name because we recommend his book Courage & Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential as part of our core bibliography. Gordon Smith was speaking of spiritual disciplines. He described Sabbath rest as one of the most important, not only for its benefit, but also because, well, observing the Sabbath is … [Read more...] about Sabbath for Academics