A taste of the Christian academic vocation and the greenhouse community as described in “Restoring the Soul of the University.”Read more…
Science in Review: A Theology of Science
If I’m not interested in science, why take a science class?Read more…
Book Review: Exiles From Eden
Schwehn chronicles a shift in the academic vocation from one of formation of the mind and character of students to one of making knowledge, reflecting a change from religiously shaped values to a valuing of formal and procedural rationality, and from an integral sense of self to a multiplicity of “selves.”Read more…
Visions of Vocation on Labor Day
The word vocation is a rich one, having to address the wholeness of life, the range of relationships and responsibilities. Work, yes, but also families, and neighbors, and citizenship, locally and globally — all of this and more is seen as vocation, that to which I am called as a human being, living my life before the face of God. It is never the same word as occupation, just as calling is never the same word as career. Sometimes, by grace, the words and the realities they represent do overlap, even significantly; sometimes, in the incompleteness of life in a fallen world, there is not much overlap at all (Steve Garber. Visions of Vocation. InterVarsity Press, 2014, 11).Read more…
Fall Preview: Scholar’s Call
Emerging scholars often tell us that they don’t know where to start when they begin trying to integrate faith and their subjects. Our goal with Scholar’s Call is to generate a series of documents for each discipline that can serve as springboards or starting points for exploring what it means to integrate Christian theology/spirituality and thoughtful engagement with an academic discipline.Read more…
Preview: ESN This Fall
As the semester starts up, we wanted to share a preview of what’s happening at ESN this fall. We’re excited to be introducing new ways of connecting with other Christian scholars online and in person, as well as a wide range of blog options. This week, we’ll be sharing a preview of upcoming blog features for this academic year. For now, let me introduce some new or expanded ways to connect face to face. Read more…
The Big Picture of Ministry to Emerging Generations
Christians must care deeply about culture and they must recognize that true cultural obedience to their Lord has to take place under the cross. — Richard Mouw. Abraham Kuyper: A Short and Personal Introduction (Eerdmans, 2011), 136. In Ministry to Emerging Generations I brieflyRead more…
Ministry to Emerging Generations
Calling is the truth that God calls us to himself so decisively that everything we are, everything we do, and everything we have is invested with a special devotion and dynamism lived out as a response to his summons and service. Read more…
ESN Connect 2015: Theology of Higher Education Project
Imagine, as a new graduate student, being able to connect online to a resource that explored: Why other Christian scholars see the academic life as an important vocation. How faith and learning shape each other in subjects like philosophy, biologicalRead more…
Welcome Hannah to ESN!
As our family heads to InterVarsity’s Cedar Campus for a MidWest Faculty dialogue on The Ends and Goals of Higher Education in Twenty-First-Century America: Change and the Calling of the Christian Educator, it is my privilege to announce that Hannah Eagleson hasRead more…