Calling & Vocation

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All believers share a primary call "to God in Christ," and each has a particular secondary calling, what we'll refer to as vocation.

Advice to Those Who Would Be Christian Scholars

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

2016: Emerging Scholars Network Blog Highlights

It was a great year for the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) blog, thanks to partnerships with InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA campus staff ministers, campus grad fellowships, and individual emerging scholars.

Tags: Calling & Vocation | Graduate Students | Leaders | Mentoring

Law, Religion, and Confident Pluralism in the University

The interaction between people who hold different and particularized beliefs leads to the challenge of pluralism—the fact of deep and incommensurable difference around us. In this article, Dr. Inazu shares about the challenges pluralism brings—especially in the university—and how one of those challenges calls us to live together through our indifferences.

Tags: Lamp Post | Integration of faith and academia | Leaders | Calling & Vocation | Multiethnicity

What is Calling?

Hope College’s Marc Baer addresses conceptions (and misconceptions) of calling from personal, Biblical, and historical perspectives. Can we know our calling?

Tags: Calling & Vocation | Grad Students

Loving God in the Flesh in the Real World

Thomas Grosh IV, Emerging Scholars Network’s Associate Director, shares some reflections inspired by Romans 12:1-21, Philippians 2:1-18, and Psalm 122:1-9 which challenge us to live as God created us to live.

Tags: Bible Study | Prayer | Transition | Leaders | Calling & Vocation

Beginning Well: Advice for New (and Returning) Grad Students

These articles, gathered from the Emerging Scholars Network and from The Well, were written with beginning grad and professional students in mind. But no matter what stage of life you are in, we think you will find the counsel wise and useful. Note: Originally published in The Well, the online presence of Women in the Academy & Professions.

Tags: Time Management | Calling & Vocation

Brett Foster: Why Get a PhD in the Humanities?

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?”

Tags: Humanities | Calling & Vocation