Faculty Catalysts

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Sometimes faculty need a hand in breaking the ice with their coworkers.

Showing the love of Christ to new faculty can be as simple as hosting a breakfast at the beginning of the academic year.

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Two New Resources for Faculty

You will love the two new resources from Faculty Ministry and ESN this fall. Please share these with faculty on your campus.

Tags: Scholar's Compass | Faculty Catalysts

Faith, Learning, and Practice as Matters of Christian Discipleship

GFM staff produced these questions to guide faculty in examining one's integration of faith and learning.

Tags: Faculty Catalysts | Faculty Communities | Integration of faith and academia

Discussion Guide for Marsden's Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship

Discussion questions for George M. Marsden's, "The Outrageous Idea of Christian Scholarship" (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), introduction and chapters 3-6. You may find the quotations that follow most questions to be relevant, but they are no substitute for following Marsden's argument in full.

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Audio: How to Be Busy, Productive, and Happy

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.

Tags: Event Resources | Time Management | Conference Materials | Faculty Catalysts

On the Doctrine of the Incarnation: A Study in Hebrews

This Bible study for faculty was originally presented at the Collegium on Christ, Knowledge and Wisdom at Union University.

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Not One Square Inch: A Study in Colossians

Colossians 1:15-20

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Faculty Scavenger Hunt

At the Spring 2007 Vanderbilt Faculty Dinner, this “scavenger hunt” was used to break the ice between Christian faculty meeting for the first time.

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A Redeeming Influence?

Faculty Ministry calls for Christian faculty to be redeeming influences within higher education, but to some, this sounds like too great a claim for the role of Jesus's disciples. Thomas Trevethan, InterVarsity Faculty Ministry staff, argues for a stronger understanding of what it means to be a redeeming influence and suggests a set of identifying marks of this redeeming influence.

This article is part of the Faculty Ministry Foundations section of the Faculty Ministry Catalyst Portfolio.

Tags: Vision | Faculty Ministry | Faculty Catalysts

Faculty Ministry Catalyst Portfolio

Faculty Ministry offers a portfolio of resources to assist you in establishing a faculty community on your campus. It includes background materials on the theology and rationale for faculty communities, a bibliography for further reading, and practical resources and examples that have proven successful on a variety of campuses.

Tags: Bible Study | Prayer | Faculty Communities | Faculty Catalysts

Partners in the Gospel

A Resource for InterVarsity Staff

InterVarsity staff and Christian faculty have been working in partnership on campuses across the country since InterVarsity’s founding.

Download InterVarsity Staff & Christian Faculty: Partners in the Gospel on Campus

Tags: Faculty Catalysts | Leaders | Calling & Vocation

Faculty as Salt & Light

Looking for stories of faculty around the country who have found interesting and effective ways to be "salt and light" on their campuses? Each of these stories comes from the Faculty Newsletter, now called the Lamp Post, which InterVarsity began publishing in 1990.

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