InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network
Jill Ellenbarger is one of the two scholars who received a 2017 Christian Scholars Foundation Grant, given to ESN members who are junior faculty. In this interview, she talks about her research, how the CSF grant is supporting her work, and how her faith and her scholarly vocation fit together.Read more…
The Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation (CSCA) is holding a one-time special conference at, and co-hosted by, Trinity Western University (near Vancouver BC) from May 11-14, 2018 (dinner Friday through lunch Monday). The abstract deadline has been extended to January 31.Read more…
Send an abstract submission to the American Scientific Affiliation Faith/Science conference summer 2018 Annual Meeting. Read more…
Sometimes in apologetic dialogue (making a case for Christian faith) we don’t have the luxury of extended conversation where we can explain our points thoroughly.Read more…
If you’re headed to the American Scientific Affiliation 2017 Annual Meeting, join ESN for the following events. Even if you’re not able to go, we would deeply appreciate your prayers. Hope to see many of you there!Read more…
Last fall, I defended my Ph.D. dissertation, and in May I attended my graduation at Virginia Tech’s Blacksburg campus. My studies were challenging, especially since I was changing my discipline, from engineering to Science and Technology Studies (STS), which is built around a core of history, sociology, and philosophy.Read more…
Christ, in the Sermon on the Mount, encourages his disciples to “Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow […]” (Matthew 6:28b, ESV). In doing so, Jesus calls us into a deep contemplation of the created order, not as an end in itself, but as a means of knowing God.Read more…
The message of the Bible is that we are created to relate to the world around us. The thrill of the scientist is that the natural world is exciting to discover. And that drives the processes of science.Read more…
In large engineering projects such as the construction sites I work on, engineers rely on documents issued by others to make decisions and build things under time constraint. A “for construction” stamp and the author’s initials on a drawing assure us that the design is ready for construction, and that we can contact the engineer for further advice.Read more…
Next week at University of Minnesota, historian of science and former ASA president Ted Davis will join a forum discussion on faith and science and give a lecture on Galileo and Eden. Read more…
One of my recent projects involved looking at how science feeds into faith in a positive way. As well as general growth in skills and knowledge, faith, character and community, five specific areas emerged time and time again in my conversations with working scientists.Read more…
In September I had the privilege of participating in the STEAM (i.e., Science & Theology for Emerging Adult Ministries) Project Conference held at Catalina Island, CA. Read more…
This year, ESN will be creating a Faith/Science curriculum for young adult small groups. Read our first entry, a reflection by a science student designed to elicit questions from student groups. We’ll be building the rest of the curriculum around student questions. What are yours?Read more…
This year, thanks to God’s grace and generous funding from the STEAM Project through Fuller Seminary, our faith/science engagement will be expanding in several ways.Read more…
This was my first time at the ASA meeting and it is easily one of the highlights of my adult life.Read more…
Volleyball. Speakers who’ve shared at Urbana 15 and Veritas Forum, or served as Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope. A webcomics and science chat. Read more…
InterVarsity’s Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) is teaming up with the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA), a professional association for Christians in science, to host a pilot student conference track at the ASA conference this summer.Read more…
Tell us what you’d like to see in a student track at a faith and science conference.
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The Emerging Scholars Network and the American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) will pilot joint student programming and activities at the ASA Annual Meeting, July 22-25 at Azusa Pacific University (near Los Angeles in Southern California). Read more…
It often seems like science and our faith are in constant conflict. Christians and scientists are often at war, attacking each other’s views. However, in the history and philosophy of science, Christians and scientists can find substantial common ground.Read more…
Urbana 15 seminar speaker Josh Swamidass will be speaking at three Veritas Forum events this spring, and the first is coming up Monday, February 22. Read more…
Yoseph Araya reports on a group of Christian scholars integrating faith and an understanding of ecological action.Read more…
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.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…