ESN continues its series of interviews with authors of Faithful Is Successful, chatting with Matthew Cabeen about career/family life balance. You can read Daniel Roeber's post on Matthew Cabeen's Faithful Is Successful essay here. Matthew Cabeen is a postdoctoral fellow of the Jane Coffin Childs Foundation studying in the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at Harvard University. He studies bacterial community behavior in Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the laboratory of Prof. Richard Losick. … [Read more...] about Faithful Is Successful: Interview with Matthew Cabeen
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Scholar’s Compass Navigating Beginnings: Learning Scholarly Virtues from the Iliad
“For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me” – Matthew 25:35 (ESV) … [Read more...] about Scholar’s Compass Navigating Beginnings: Learning Scholarly Virtues from the Iliad
Three Things Christian Scholars Can Learn from Glen East
Thanks to the generosity of Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion, I got to spend a half day at Glen East, a workshop Image sponsors every year. The experience was rich with conversations and presentations about intertwining the life of faith and the life of art. The virtues, disciplines, and choices of faithful art-making are often similar to the things that sustain faithful scholarship. Here are three patterns Christian scholars can study from Glen East: 1. Practicing Hospitality Glen East was a deeply … [Read more...] about Three Things Christian Scholars Can Learn from Glen East
James K.A. Smith on “Liturgical Discipleship”
Discipleship, becoming Christ-like, empowered by the Spirit to image God to the world is not magic. Nor is it merely intellectual. It's a matter of re-forming our loves, re-narrativing our identities, re-habituating our virtue. And that is centered in the practices of the people of God gathered by the Spirit around Christ's Word and the table. Love takes practice. Worship is our gymnasium. . . . -- Conclusion to James K.A. Smith's presentation Liturgical Discipleship: Worship as the Center of Spiritual … [Read more...] about James K.A. Smith on “Liturgical Discipleship”
In Pursuit of Gospel-Driven Productivity
A Review of Matt Perman's What's Best Next: How the Gospel Transforms the Way You Get Things Done (Zondervan: 2014) By David H. Leonard, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Apologetics, Luther Rice University, Atlanta, GA It might be tempting to think that productivity is a topic more suitable for business leaders and entrepreneurs, for whom it's essential to “get things done” as efficiently as possible. As Matt Perman argues in What's Best Next, however, productivity is mainly about loving others by … [Read more...] about In Pursuit of Gospel-Driven Productivity