What is it like to be a photojournalist, and why would a Christian choose journalistic photographic work over advocacy? From Dec 27 - Jan 1, volunteers with our network of early career Christian academics are liveblogging seminars at the Urbana conference, a mission-focused student gathering of 16,000 Christians from across North America and the world. Here at at the Urbana conference in St Louis, photo journalist Micah Albert (website) (blog) talks to us about the role of photojournalism in society. Micah covers news … [Read more...] about Why Is There No Photo About This? Challenging the Comfortable with Photojournalism
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ESN, Global Scholars, Urbana: A Doorway to the World’s Universities
Trajectories in Global Missions I returned to America in July from China after teaching in a Shanghai university for four years, including serving occasionally more broadly in Asia; and I just stepped off of the plane recently from a one-month, five-country trip to numerous universities in Sub-Saharan Africa. I happily discovered from these travels that what missiologists like Timothy Tennent have been saying for years is, indeed, so right: The ‘west reaches-the-rest' missional paradigm must change; it should be … [Read more...] about ESN, Global Scholars, Urbana: A Doorway to the World’s Universities
Urbana Preview: Cross-Cultural Teaching—One Story and a Few Tips for North American Scholars
Brian Dennison spoke at Urbana on "The Vocation of Law in God's Global Mission to Bring Justice and Wholeness." You can find a summary of his talk here. To introduce you to Brian and "share the blessing," Brian offers some tips from his own experience teaching cross-culturally. Part 1. Note: Have experience teaching cross-culturally and want to write about it? Whatever your culture of origin and wherever you taught cross-culturally, we'd love to hear. Email us here. … [Read more...] about Urbana Preview: Cross-Cultural Teaching—One Story and a Few Tips for North American Scholars
Loving Your Atheist Neighbor, Part 4 (Urbana Preview)
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Love Your Atheist Neighbor, Part 3 (Urbana Preview)
Picture: University of Michigan Law School Reading Room Rick Mattson, InterVarsity staff and author of How Faith Is Like Skydiving: And Other Memorable Images for Dialogue with Seekers and Skeptics (InterVarsity Press, 2014), continues his series. Rick will be speaking at Urbana Student Missions Conference (December 27-31) in a seminar called “Love Your Atheist Neighbor,” and he's giving us a preview here. Read Part 1 and Part 2. Interested in doing a series on Urbana or an interview with an Urbana speaker? … [Read more...] about Love Your Atheist Neighbor, Part 3 (Urbana Preview)