Nov 26, 2014
I can do this! It’s funny how we can feel so confident in some areas and so fearful in other areas. While we are highly competent and confident in some arenas of experience and knowledge, we hesitate to volunteer where we have less experience and...
Nov 26, 2014
An Attitude of Gratitude Ever think about how blessed we are to be professors? For the most part, we have great jobs that are esteemed, that compensate us reasonably well, that pay us to think, to write, to serve. Many of us get reimbursed for travel, even for...
Nov 26, 2014
God Needs Witnesses More than Lawyers “You will be my witnesses.” Acts 1:8 The life of faith can be ironic at times. During an on-going conversation with an Indian graduate student, Priyanka, I became the student and my student the teacher. Priyanka had...
Sep 18, 2014
A Cup of Tea As predictably as tea leaves settle in the bottom of a cup when left undisturbed, I settle for the familiar and the safe. I often try to evade situations that require courage or risk-taking, and long for the comfortable and sedentary places of life....
Sep 18, 2014
As amazing as this sounds, you and I have been sent to the respective university where we each work. In John 20:21, Jesus tells His disciples following His resurrection: “As the Father sent me, so I’m sending you.” Jesus was merely passing on the same sense of calling...
Sep 18, 2014
They called it a “meeting that never adjourned” and an unending “concert of benevolence.” They were, in the words of Edmund Burke, “God’s little platoon.” That group, the Clapham Circle, may just serve us as a model for faculty fellowships. A Company...
