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ESN News: A Leadership Transition

January 15, 2019 by Hannah Eagleson 2 Comments

Photo: At Urbana 18, we held a staff party to celebrate Tom's great work with ESN (Emerging Scholars Network). This picture shows Tom and Theresa Grosh, their daughter Ellen, and InterVarsity Grad/Faculty Ministry Colleagues Bobby Gross (Vice President for GFM), Kathy Tuan-Maclean (Director of Faculty Ministry), and Hannah Eagleson (ESN).   With both sorrow and joy, we announce that Tom Grosh IV will be transitioning to a new role as an area director with CMDA (Christian Medical and Dental Association) in South … [Read more...] about ESN News: A Leadership Transition

Filed Under: About ESN, Christ and the Academy, housekeeping Tagged With: academic vocations, calling, donations, Emerging Scholars Network, resources, support, urbana student missions conference, Urbana18, vocational stewardship

Equipping Christian Scholars at Urbana 18: The ESN Urbana Fellows Program

January 13, 2019 by Hannah Eagleson Leave a Comment

“It was amazing seeing so many Christian graduate students passionate about integrating their faith and their academic work. The connections were invaluable and further spurred me on to persevere as a faithful witness to Jesus' kingdom in the academy.” —InterVarsity ESN Urbana 18 Fellow … [Read more...] about Equipping Christian Scholars at Urbana 18: The ESN Urbana Fellows Program

Filed Under: Christian Thought and Practice, Urbana18 Tagged With: academic vocations, calling, urbana student missions conference, Urbana18, vocational stewardship

Letter to a New Graduate Student

September 17, 2015 by Monica Greenwood 3 Comments

Dear New Graduate Student, I don't know you. And yet today, I think about you and pray for you. The academic world is small and mobile enough that there's a good chance we'll be on the same campus at some point in our lifetimes, and yet this letter is probably the only chance I'll be able to speak these words to you. And reflecting back on my own first year as a graduate student reminds me of all I want to say to you, to tell you that you aren't alone. … [Read more...] about Letter to a New Graduate Student

Filed Under: Advice for Entering Graduate School, Christ and the Academy Tagged With: Advice for New Grad Students, letter, letter to a new grad student series, vocational stewardship

Deploying Vocational Power: Four Pathways

January 19, 2012 by Tom Grosh IV Leave a Comment

Kingdom Calling Cover

Amy Sherman begins Chapter 8 of  Kingdom Calling: Vocational Stewardship for the Common Good  (InterVarsity Press, 2011) with a bang! Jesus is actually looking for people He can trust with His power. --  Dallas Willard Faithful vocational stewardship is not only about  doing,  it's also about  being.  To deploy their vocational power for the common good, believers must possess a character that handles this power humbly and eschews its misuse. This is why discipling for vocational stewardship involves not only the work … [Read more...] about Deploying Vocational Power: Four Pathways

Filed Under: Christ, Christ and the Academy, Public Intellectuals, Vocation Tagged With: Amy Sherman, andy crouch, blooming where you're planted, books, Center on Faith in Communities, common good, creation, culture-making, dallas willard, Fall, Head Heart Hands, higher education, Kim Phipps, Kingdom Calling, Messiah College, power, Revelation, righteous, Sagamore Institute for Policy Research, Spiderman, vocation, vocational stewardship

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