InterVarsity's Emerging Scholars Network
Welcome to the first Emerging Scholars Network Sci-Fi Film Festival! I’ll be having a conversation here on the blog on various classic and current science fiction movies. Feel free to watch along and join the conversation. This week’s film is 1999’s Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace.Read more…
What it does with ships, Solo also does for droids, taking a ubiquitous feature of the setting and giving them their day in the twin suns.Read more…
For Han Solo, spaceships mean the freedom to go anywhere but here.Read more…
Making decisions is challenging and risky. Why not let someone more intelligent with more information have that responsibility, even if that ‘someone’ is implemented in software.Read more…
Does the existence of a mentoring opportunity create an obligation? Or, to put it slightly differently, can we rely on potential mentees’ desire for mentoring to tell us when we need to start? Here’s where I think The Force Awakens is illustrative. Read more…
Do you have experience, on either end, with cloning-as-mentoring or apprenticeship-as-mentoring?Read more…
Why and when should we start mentoring and investing in those younger or at a less advanced place than we are academically? Read more…
Why and when should we start mentoring and investing in those younger or at a less advanced place than we are academically?Read more…