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. He conducted his doctoral studies with Professor Christine Jacobs-Wagner in the Department of Molecular, Cellular & Developmental Biology at Yale University. Matt lives with his wife, Rose, and their three young sons, Tommy, Benjamin, and Henry, in Boston, Massachusetts. The Cabeens attend church at their local Roman Catholic parish, St. Ann.
1. ESN: You talk in this essay about the delight and value of making space for a vibrant family life even as someone with a busy academic career. I’m curious if there are any ways that you find insights in your academic work and insights in your family life overlapping. Do you ever discover that God is teaching you about your family life through your academic career, or vice versa? [Read more…] about Faithful Is Successful: Interview with Matthew Cabeen