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On Alert and On Call: Armed Only with His Mind and His Love

September 15, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

Mary Poplin offers a personal statement that describes her call as a Christian professor in a secular university.

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Filed Under: Academics as Mission, Christ and the Academy, Is Reality Secular Tagged With: Christian Personal Statement, constructivism, Mary Poplin, mind, personal statement, secular, Transformative Conversations

Addressing Loneliness in 2014

January 13, 2014 by Tom Grosh IV No Comments

The Innovation of Loneliness from Shimi Cohen on Vimeo. Yes, I posted The Innovation of Loneliness in Reclaiming Conversations (9/12/2013) when considering some of the work of Sherry Turkle and offering Transformative Conversations as a resource. But the recent attention given to Saving the Lost Art of Conversation: In a fast-paced digital age, an MIT psychologist tries to slow us […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Finding Your Voice, Science and Faith, Technology in Higher Ed Tagged With: ESN hubs, loneliness, Reclaiming Conversations, Saving the Lost Art of Communication, Sherry Turkle, technology, The Innovation of Loneliness, Transformative Conversations

Book Review: Transformative Conversations

September 24, 2013 by Bob Trube No Comments

I have not only previously referred to Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education by Peter Felten, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Aaron Kheriaty, and Edward Taylor (Jossey-Bass, 2013), but also Bob Trube’s review of it (see Reclaiming Conversations?). None-the-less this is such a significant topic and resource for Faculty Ministry/Emerging Scholars Network (FM/ESN), I […]

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Filed Under: Book Review/Discussion, Christ and the Academy, Mentoring Tagged With: Aaron Kheriaty, conversation, Edward Taylor, Faculty Ministry Leadership Team, FMLT, H-Dirksen L. Bauman, Mentoring, Mentoring Communities, Peter Felten, Reclaiming Conversations, Transformative Conversations, Transformative Conversations: A Guide to Mentoring Communities Among Colleagues in Higher Education

Reclaiming Conversations?

September 12, 2013 by Tom Grosh IV 1 Comment

“Reclaiming conversations, that’s the next frontier.” — Sherry Turkle‘s [1] concluding line to her TEDxUIUC 2011 presentation Alone Together. This morning David O’Hara’s Can I Ask Questions In Church? [2] spurred me to read Jaweed Kaleem’s Keeping Alive The Big Questions [3]. In Kaleem’s resource rich article I once again came across Sherry Turkle, Abby Rockefeller Mauzé Professor of […]

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Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Mentoring, Science and Faith Tagged With: Alone Together, conversation, loneliness, Mentoring, Reclaiming Conversations, Sherry Turkle, technology, Transformative Conversations

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