Highlights from Francis Su’s webinar “The Integration of Faith and the Academic Calling.”Read more…
Seeing Anew This Year
As we ring in the New Year, much ink will be spilled, again, on New Year’s resolutions and promises. Frankly, I gave up on New Year’s resolutions long ago, as I realized that they didn’t make much difference in my life anyway.Read more…
Community, Excellence, and Joy, Part 2 (Closing Interview, Faithful Is Successful series)
ESN: One of the largest themes of the series has to do with issues of faith and ambition. It seems that God has called us to do our best work for Him, and yet He’s also called us to seek humility and associate with the humble. Any further thoughts on navigating that tension?Read more…
Success: Thy Will – Or My Will – Be Done?
What is your greatest fear as you move through your academic or professional training? (Seriously. Please take a moment and give it some thought before reading on.)Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Academics and Humility
In academics emphasis is frequently placed more on how much one knows, rather than on the process of learning. An environment geared towards test-taking and preeminent reputations can easily take us far from humility, especially if a rigid certainty is elevated above inquiry.Read more…
Review of Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis — A Life. Part I
Review of Alister McGrath, C.S. Lewis — A Life: Eccentric Genius, Reluctant Prophet (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House, 2013) for the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN). Part I. Click here for Part II. Alister McGrath is, like many of us, a fanRead more…
Following Jesus in the “Real World”
The contributors to Faithful is Successful, Notes to a Driven Pilgrim are very much interested in feedback from and interaction with Emerging Scholars. That’s why they’re sharing their material with a volunteer ESN writer team to review and respond to via anRead more…
Success, Failure and the Protestant Work Ethic
Not long ago I wrote an Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) blog post about my experiences on the tenure track, sharing my concerns about whether I would get tenure and contemplating my priorities. I wanted to think through whether tenure even should beRead more…
Academic Success, Security, and Standing on the Rock of God
We received the following reflection from an ESN member, a young faculty member at a public research university, with the request to publish it anonymously. Have you experienced similar thoughts and feelings on your academic journey? Have you struggled withRead more…
13 Ways of Looking at Graduate School: Part 4
Final piece of a 4-part series by a recent PhD recipient who has been involved with ESN and wanted to share lessons he learned during graduate school. Read more…
Humility as essential to faculty success
Rob Jenkins, an associate professor of English and director of the Writers Institute at Georgia Perimeter College,* proposes The Five Characteristics of Successful New Faculty Members. The first one on his list is humility, which includes the importance of seekingRead more…