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Scholar’s Call: The Student Who Walked Away

March 21, 2016 by Paul Yandle No Comments

I do not claim to be a great teacher today, though I’d like to think I am getting better. When I first started teaching I was woefully inadequate to the task. Research and writing came naturally to me. Standing in front of a room full of people and commanding respect did not.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: classroom, faculty, Failure, professor, Scholar's Call, student, teaching

Scholar’s Call: The Joy of Becoming a Generalist

March 7, 2016 by Paul Yandle No Comments

The first day of the fall semester of my senior undergraduate year, I ran into a friend of mine, a fellow history major, outside of the student union building at the research university we attended. We stopped and talked for a bit, updating each other on our lives and comparing our fall schedules. My friend had just been to the university bookstore, and he showed me a textbook he had just bought for a History of the Old South class that the history department was offering that fall.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Generalist, history, Scholar's Call, teaching

Scholar’s Call: A Theologian Praying

January 24, 2016 by David Russell Mosley No Comments

How does your understanding of Christian theology/spirituality shape your discipline if you are a theologian? David Russell Mosley explores.

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Prayer, Scholar's Call, theologian, theology

Scholar’s Call: An ecologist in the household of God

November 30, 2015 by Richard Gunton No Comments

Jesus Christ has called me to follow Him as the world’s saviour and lord. As part of this, He’s called me to be an ecologist.

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Filed Under: Academic Vocations, Christian Thought and Practice, Creation Care, Science and Faith Tagged With: christian scholarship, collaboration, Ecology, Faith-in-Scholarship, politics, Scholar's Call, science, science and faith, worldview

“Your crooked heart”: Literary Study and Spiritual Formation (Scholar’s Call)

November 16, 2015 by Angela O'Neal 3 Comments

Act III of Shakespeare’s King Lear gets to me every time.

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Filed Under: Life in the Academy Tagged With: C. S. Lewis, creativity, Elizabeth Bennett, Holly Ordway, imagination, Jane Austen, King Lear, literary apologetics, literary study, Michael Card, Pride, Pride & Prejudice, Scholar's Call, Shakespeare, sin, spiritual formation, truth, w. h. auden

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