At Emerging Scholars Network, we love to crowdsource ideas for following Christ faithfully and serving others well in the academic life. In the 2018/2019 academic year, we've been sharing brief insights on how to grow spiritually in the academic life. Read the series to date here. For more of Johnny Lin's writing for ESN, click here. … [Read more...] about Cultivating Humility (Growing Spiritually in the Academic Life Series)
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Do I Really Need a Sabbath? (Scholar’s Compass)
Thank-you to Amy Davis Abdallah for joining the Emerging Scholars Network's blogging team by sharing a pair of 2018 Lenten devotionals, looking forward to next week's Palm Sunday's Short-Lived Praise. Follow this link to explore ESN's Lenten devotionals. To God be the glory! ~ Tom Grosh IV, Assoc. Dir., ESN … [Read more...] about Do I Really Need a Sabbath? (Scholar’s Compass)
Scholar’s Compass: Remembering Sabbath
Remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy. Exodus 20:8 (NIV) The spiritual rest which God especially intends in this commandment is that we not only cease from our labor and trade but much more—that we let God alone work in us and that in all our powers we do nothing of our own. --Martin Luther Reflection In Marva J. Dawn's Keeping the Sabbath Wholly, she tells the story of a summer of graduate school in which she had to learn three new languages for her Ph.D. at the same time, and in one shortened summer … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass: Remembering Sabbath
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
What does it mean to observe the Sabbath?
Hope I didn't catch you (and me) at an awkward time, but are you already thirsting for encouragement in Sabbath-keeping this fall term? As I reflected upon the topic and prayed for the graduate students and faculty with whom I minister, I returned to Calvin College's helpful Sabbath-keeping resource page for faculty. Below's just a taste: In an academic setting like Calvin where Monday signifies not only the beginning of a new week but the onslaught of classes to teach, tests to take (or give) and … [Read more...] about What does it mean to observe the Sabbath?