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Why Should You Celebrate This King?

February 20, 2013 by John Hundley 2 Comments

A point often overlooked when we talk about Lent is its celebratory nature.   Throughout the week we remember our complete need for healing, but doing so makes our rejoicing all the more honest.  During the week we are reminded that without the Light we're lost, but we remember that “Sunday's a-comin'!”   On Sunday we celebrate the resurrection.   We celebrate the God who brings the dead to life and calls nonexistent things into existence. But what might a celebration for partakers in the ‘kingdom of God' look like … [Read more...] about Why Should You Celebrate This King?

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy Tagged With: celebration, Exodus, fasting, king, lent, Luke 9:28-36, transfiguration, Urbana09, worship

More on ESN at Urbana 09

January 13, 2010 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

To add to Mike's LAST Week in Review: ESN at Urbana 09, below are a few pictures and some of my joys of serving Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) at Urbana 09. What a joy to ... serve a nearly continuous stream of Urbana 09 delegates, including a number of international students and several faculty, at the ESN table.   As Mike noted, we received over 150 registrations.   Why the interest in the table, the reception, and the seminar?   Many students (not to mention postdocs and young faculty) continuing in … [Read more...] about More on ESN at Urbana 09

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Urbana 09 Tagged With: urbana, Urbana09

LAST Week in Review: ESN at Urbana 09

January 8, 2010 by Micheal Hickerson Leave a Comment

Urbana09 Main Session

Tom and I have been busy recuperating from our week at Urbana 09, so there won't be any Week in Review this week. Instead, we're each going to share some highlights of our experience. If you were there, we hope that we were able to make contact. If you weren't there, you can watch videos of many of the speakers and other main session performers at the Urbana website. So, what did the Emerging Scholars Network do at Urbana 09? Serving Christ as a Professor: More than 250 students —mostly undergraduates —attended my … [Read more...] about LAST Week in Review: ESN at Urbana 09

Filed Under: Christ and the Academy, Urbana 09 Tagged With: ken elzinga, Mentoring, mentors, urbana, Urbana09

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