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Book Review: Acedia and Its Discontents, by R. J. Snell

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Acedia and Its Discontents, R. J. Snell. Kettering, OH: Angelico Press, 2015. Summary: This is an exploration of the vice usually known as sloth, often thought of as laziness. The author argues that acedia is a contempt of all relationships and a destructive embrace of autonomous unchecked freedom rather than the love of God and the good work to which God calls us. … [Read more...] about Book Review: Acedia and Its Discontents, by R. J. Snell

My Calling at Work (Liturgies of Calling, Post 2)

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Now  and then, we'll take a break from our Sunday Scholar's Compass rhythm to share other material that can be used in personal reflection and communal worship, and this week we continue a series of  liturgies from a recent InterVarsity conference. Every summer, InterVarsity hosts  the  Midwest Faculty Conference  as a time for faculty to rest, reflect, and meet with God and each other. This year's theme was The Faculty Vocation: Exploring a Christian Anthropology of the Academic Life. Mike Gehrling,  InterVarsity's … [Read more...] about My Calling at Work (Liturgies of Calling, Post 2)

Diligence in the Life of the Christian Scholar (Scholar’s Compass)

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Now for this very reason also, applying all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence, and in your moral excellence, knowledge . . .  - 2 Peter 1:5, NASB, emphasis mine … [Read more...] about Diligence in the Life of the Christian Scholar (Scholar’s Compass)

Learning to wait on God in North Korea (Scholar’s Compass)

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Pyongyang Metro, courtesy of  David Eerdmans, via Wikimedia Commons:  https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MetroPyongyang.jpg "What then is Apollos? And what is Paul? Servants through whom you believed, even as the Lord gave opportunity to each one. I planted, Apollos watered, but God was causing the growth. So then neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but God who causes the growth. Now he who plants and he who waters are one; but each will receive his own reward according to his own … [Read more...] about Learning to wait on God in North Korea (Scholar’s Compass)