This series offers the opportunity to learn from Black faculty, researchers, and graduate students, as they share their scholarship in their areas of teaching, research or practice.

How do you find time to connect with God during the busy years of graduate school? Pastor and InterVarsity staff, Howard Chang, shares how spiritual disciplines have provided the rhythms and space to stay connected to God as a branch is to a vine (John 15:6)."

Medical students across the US anticipate Match Day with both excitement and trepidation. On this spring day, fourth-year medical students find out where they will be starting their residency or fellowship training programs. We offer this prayer as a way to reflect and remember the ways God has been faithful in the past and the promise that he will continue to be faithful during this pivotal transition.

Hear from Dr. Rick Donlon, plenary speaker at the Christian Community Health Fellowship conference.

We are happy to share BSAP’s online Meet the Author Event with: Ms. Skip McDonald, R.N.,BSN, Th.B., who wrote the Anxiety Bible Study Guide. Join us to hear Ms. Skip McDonald talk about anxiety, share key points from her bible study guide, and entertain questions from Black scholars in attendance. She worked extensively as a mental health nurse and she serves InterVarsity as a Regional Resource Specialist focusing on mental health and spiritual formation. We are so grateful to have this time with her. Peace be with you.

Why is everyone so angry online? The internet seems to have brought the world together only so we can tear each other apart. Social media platforms have become toxic and polarizing environments.

We’re all moving toward the unknown this fall. We don’t know what to expect, or even how to imagine what things will be like. It’s a critical moment when we can choose to follow Jesus on the journey, to walk by faith instead of sight. This collection of readings from the Emerging Scholars Network blog is designed to help you do that together. Built in are study questions, prayer ideas, and optional spiritual activities for groups meeting online or in socially distanced ways.

Whether you just started graduate school or are almost finished, our weekly fall readings are designed to help you journey forward with a strong sense of calling to God’s work in the university. Read and discuss with a small group, or reflect on your own. Click here to go to the readings on the Emerging Scholars Blog.

From “Take a Long Walk: Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855),” an excerpt from Vintage Saints and Sinners: 25 Christians Who Transformed My Faith (InterVarsity Press, 2017) by Karen Wright Marsh<

You Don’t Need to Know Everything. Perhaps you’ve seen the poster that proudly proclaims “All I really need to know I learned in kindergarten.” This is a clever list of light-hearted observations that can remind us to slow down and not take ourselves so seriously. And yet, here you are in graduate school...

July assignment for GFM New Staff Training: Wolsterstorff discusses three pitfalls in how to integrate faith and research, and how to avoid them.

As we enter Advent on December 3rd, we would like to invite faculty and students to enjoy a free visual devotional experience as you spend time alone with God this Christmas season. This weekly devotional experience, created by lnterVarsity staff minister, Bette Lynn Dickinson, features a beautifully hand-painted original series, Scriptures, prayers and questions to guide you through the days that lead to our Savior's birth.

May God speak to us and fill us with the hope that was born that first Christmas. Learn more and download the complete Advent series.

In this interview from the ESN Blog, 2016 Christian Scholars’ Foundation Grant Recipient Carrie Bredow describes the psychology research she’s carrying out with the grant and talks about how her faith and academic work interact. For more information about the CSF Grant, see this post.

Enjoy book reviews, excerpts, poetry, and visual art in this corner of The Well.

The Well interviews faculty, professionals, authors, and researchers about their work, faith, families, and more.

As you live out your faith in your sphere of influence, may the words of this poem offer you encouragement to continually abide in Christ.

Laura Veltman, Professor of American Literature, sheds light on reading novels from a Christian perspective.

With a record-high population of international students and scholars in the U.S. (over 1 million, actually!), and nearly half of them being graduate students and post docs, you’re likely to run into them. Many are from nations where the Gospel is inaccessible, even illegal. We have an amazing opportunity! But, you say, "I know there are a lot of international students here, but…"

A discussion and study guide of I Peter by Thomas Trevethan developed for the Midwest Faculty Conference at Cedar Campus (2009).

An urban mission trip may be just what you need to hear God's call on your life to start considering right where you are the perfect mission field. Graduate students on mission, world changers in progress.

”Friends, keep showing up, keep praying, keep experimenting, and keep watching for signs of God’s kingdom on your campus. It’s about faithfulness, not numbers, and about a special work that God will unfold in your unique university context. The fruitfulness will come.”

Black Scholars and Professionals (BSAP), a national ministry within InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, hosted its fifth annual conference in Cambridge, MA. Dr. Claudette Ligons spoke on persevering and growing in the academic life. Dr. Ligons also has the distinction of a 100% graduation rate among the Ed.D. students she has supported through the dissertation process at Texas Southern University. Originially published on the Emerging Scholars Network blog, we are delighted to share wisdom on continuing in the journey of higher education from Dr. Ligons in this four part series, Strength for the Journey.

Dwight Schwartz found that a pre-scheduled grad student luncheon turned into an opportunity to thirst together for Shalom.

What story will you tell? Urbana15: Find Your Life!

Emerging Scholars Network, Women in the Academy, and InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries wish you a wonderful new year. As you flip your calendars, we pray that you are renewed and ready to finish the academic year well. Whether you are or not, these articles offer quick, practical advice that might encourage you in your academic and personal pursuits.

What good is it if we gain academic prestige, yet forfeit our souls? Robert Kaita, Principal Research Physicist of the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, offers his perspective and a Scriptural basis for aiming to serve Christ and achieve academic success simultaneously.

Bird-watching is more than a hobby for me. It is a spiritual discipline, a facet of a life of prayer, an extension of my seeking, seeing, and hearing from the Spirit of Jesus. Not only do the disciplines of bird-watching and contemplative prayer appear strikingly similar, but I also see parallels in the tools as well.

A seminar to prepare students for graduate school.

Selected resources on science and religion from InterVarsity Faculty Ministry and ESN, featuring Elaine Ecklund, Francis Collins, Jennifer Wiseman, Robert Kaita, Jeff Hardin, Cal DeWitt, and many others.

Tom Trevethan, retired Faculty Ministry staff, offers a study to lead us in examining Psalm 90.

These resources may be especially helpful to undergraduates or others who are at the early stages of integrating their academic with their faith in Christ.

On November 3, 2009, the Indiana University Graduate and Faculty Ministry hosted a panel discussion on evolution and evangelical Christianity, in the midst of a campus-wide celebration of Charles Darwin. Panelists featured were Dr. Jeff Hardin (Zoology, University of Wisconsin, Madison), Dr. Tim O'Connor (Philosophy, Indiana University), and a pastor, Dr. Rich Holdeman.

Brett Foster, Assistant Professor of English at Wheaton College, answers the question, “From a Christian perspective, why should anyone get a PhD in the Humanities?”

In the face of poor job prospects, a long and difficult process, and discouraging academic environments, why should anyone get a PhD in the Humanities? Seven Christian faculty and postdocs share their perspectives.

Kenneth G. Elzinga, Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics at the University of Virginia, advises faculty on why and how to mentor. Originally presented at the ESN National Gathering at Following Christ 2008. (Part 2 of 2).

Conversations with C. S. Lewis, by author, philosopher, and Emerging Scholars Network member Robert Velarde. This Q&A with the author was originally published at IVPress.com.

Cal DeWitt, Professor at the Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies of the University of Wisconsin, delivered this talk at the 2007 Faculty Conference at Cedar Campus. He focuses on a topic of concern to all Christian academics: time management.

"I have a strong feeling that my intellectual formation is just as much a hindrance as a help to prayer."-- Henri Nouwen The Genesee Diary

Couldn't make it to the Redeeming Reason conference in Chicago? You can still listen to the talks given by Dallas Willard, Cornelius Plantinga, and others.

Charles Troutman (a pioneer of IVCF in the 1930s) wrote, "There is no place like the university for the sharpening and expansion of Christian faith." Here is a prayer he wrote in 1960 which brings that grand vision down to each individual's desk.