How do we practice gratitude on an ongoing basis? Read more…
Science Corner: Offering Thanks for Science & Technology
I’d love to hear from you about developments in science, technology, or your area of study that have you feeling thankful today.Read more…
Christianity: The Feasting Religion
In this season of harvest and celebration, scholar/teacher/novelist David Russell Mosley offers a reflection on feasting in the Christian tradition.Read more…
Thanksgiving for Domestic Hospitality (Scholar’s Compass)
During my own graduate days, there is no kindness for which I am more thankful than that of being welcomed into the homes of my peers and instructors.Read more…
After the Election Part 2: Diversity and Unity this Thanksgiving Holiday
This election season has challenged and strained relationships. Nearly four-in-ten Americans report the election has led to tensions with friends and families. This Thanksgiving week, how can we reconcile and restore our relationships when we reunite with family and friends?Read more…
Happy Thanksgiving!
Lift the strain of high thanksgiving!/Tread with songs the hallowed way!/Praise our father’s God, for mercies
/New to us their sons to-day;Read more…
Thankfulness and Graduate Exams (Scholar’s Compass)
During preparations for my preliminary exams, the cliché “blessing in disguise” seemed like an accurate description of graduate school. Although I knew that graduate school was a gift from God, at the time, it felt like a big mistake. Read more…
Celebrating Small Victories (Strength for the Journey series, Part 4)
ESN is delighted to share wisdom on continuing in the journey of higher education from Dr. Claudette Ligons. Dr. Ligons has the distinction of a 100% graduation rate among the Ed.D. students she has supported through the dissertation process at Texas Southern University. The concluding post in a series of four.Read more…
Book Review: The First Thanksgiving
“Ours is a present-tense society,” historian Robert Tracy McKenzie notes, “We live in a time and place in which thinking deeply about the past is a countercultural and even a radical act.”Read more…
Pray for Scholar’s Compass in February
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father, from whom every family[c] in heaven and on earth is named, that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being,Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Building Thanksgiving
World Changers New Orleans, 2014. Lower Ninth Ward Crew of Students working on a house. Summer Staffers Sarah Horton and Megan Tilman (Navy WC Tees on left). And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the nameRead more…
Scholar’s Compass Thanksgiving: Expect the Unexpected
It was a beautiful, hot summer day; yet, I was full of despair and anxiety. While taking a walk with my Dad, I was explaining to him my dilemma. Finally, my dream of attending the university was coming true, but there was no money.Read more…
Science in Review — The Thanksgiving Turkey gets the LEGO Worm
For those among the Plymouth settlers who were believers, the American continent may have seemed to be the closest analogue of the world yet-to-come as they would experience, particularly when it came to food.Read more…
A Journey of Thanksgiving (Scholar’s Compass)
Why should we give thanks to God and why is it a journey?Read more…
Scholar’s Compass: Thankful for God’s Presence
Oh Lord, as we think about where we are, let us remember where You are. Let us seek You and find You. As we discover You, let us understand where we are, serving our neighborhoods, our institutions, our churches, and our families and friends. Amen.Read more…
30 Prayers of Thanksgiving ’14
30 Prayers of Thanksgiving, a daily series from Ernie Frederick Read more…
Prayer for Scholar’s Compass and ESN in November
In this month of thanksgiving, ESN is delighted to thank God for His generosity, and to share some upcoming things we’re excited about. Please join us in thanking God for His goodness and praying with us. Scholar’s Compass Praise forRead more…
What Books are on Your Christmas Lists?
What books are on your Christmas lists, not only your own wish list, but also ones you desire to give to others and/or suggest for a book discussion in the coming year? I am very interested in learning what Emerging Scholars desireRead more…
On Technology, Thanksgiving, and Patience
I had never been to a Black Friday shopping spree before. The thought of camping out for hours in the chilling pre-dawn night always seemed perverse to me . . . but that was before I started browsing the Black Friday ads and listening to stories of stunning deals and bargains.Read more…
The First Thanksgiving: What Makes Good History?
How do we research, embrace, and live in proper relationship to the “real story” of those who have gone before us?Read more…
Science in Review — November 2013
As you watch this video of an abandoned ant hill that was preserved with concrete and excavated, take a moment to marvel at the wonder that is the ant. They are the most numerous animal on Earth, and may representRead more…
A grateful heart
Thou has given so much to me Give one thing more – a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleases me, As if Thy blessings had spare days; But such a heart, whose pulse may be Thy praise — George HerbertRead more…
What Are You Thankful For? The Spiritual Discipline of Gratitude
Gratitude is hard. When things are going well, it’s easy to believe that we have accomplished our success entirely through our own effort and that we owe nothing to anyone else, least of which God.Read more…
Praise and Thanksgiving
Today join me in praising God for his blessing and asking him to continue to grow in all of us a heart of thankfulness and joy.Read more…