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Writing Exercises My Respect Muscles (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
“Respect, I think, always implies imagination—the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls.” (Wendell Berry, The Art of the Commonplace) In South Africa where I...
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First Sunday of Lent: Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane
During Lent, ESN writer and InterVarsity graduate/faculty staff member Jamie Noyd will share her reflections. She’ll invite us to meditate with her on six of the stations of the cross on which...
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Second Sunday of Lent: Jesus, Betrayed by Judas, is Arrested
During Lent, ESN writer and InterVarsity graduate/faculty staff member Jamie Noyd will share her reflections. She’ll invite us to meditate with her on six of the stations of the cross on which...
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Third Sunday of Lent: Jesus is Judged by Pilate
During Lent, ESN writer and InterVarsity graduate/faculty staff member Jamie Noyd shares her reflections. She invites us to meditate with her on six of the stations of the cross on which Christians...
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Fourth Sunday of Lent: Jesus is Helped by Simon the Cyrenian to Carry the Cross
During Lent, ESN writer and InterVarsity graduate/faculty staff member Jamie Noyd shares her reflections. She invites us to meditate with her on six of the stations of the cross on which Christians...
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Fifth Sunday of Lent: Jesus Speaks to His Mother and the Disciple
During Lent, ESN writer and InterVarsity graduate/faculty staff member Jamie Noyd shares her reflections. She invites us to meditate with her on six of the stations of the cross on which Christians...
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The Perfection of our Praise: Reclaiming our Inner Folly on Palm Sunday...
For this Palm Sunday, ESN author and classical college professor Brandon Spun offers a meditation in the tradition of Erasmus’s Praise of Folly or G. K. Chesterton’s meditations on the lightheartedness...
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Making the Second City Church Lenten Cross
Sculptor and art professor Theodore Prescott describes a collaborative Lenten project he led for a congregation in the city of Harrisburg, PA. We hope it provides rich reflection for readers as Holy...
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Good Friday: Jesus Dies on the Cross
During Lent, ESN writer and InterVarsity graduate/faculty staff member Jamie Noyd has generously shared her reflections. She invited us to meditate with her on six of the stations of the cross on which...
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A New Easter Poem
For this joyful day of celebration, we feature a contemporary Easter poem by ESN author and scholar of early modern literature David Parry. We’re honored to be the first publication to share it. For...
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Letter to My Self, Starting Graduate School
Historian Ryan Wilkinson, PhD finished and starting a tenure track job in the fall, writes a letter to himself at the beginning of graduate school. We hope it’s a great encouragement, wherever you are...
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Why I Write (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Photo by vpickering We resume our Writing As a Spiritual Discipline series with a post by Anna Gissing, editor at InterVarsity Press and previous editor of The Well. Browse Anna’s other work for ESN...
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What Writing Does for Me (Writing As a Spiritual Discipline Series)
Photo by amypalko Tamarie Macon continues our spring series on Writing As a Spiritual Discipline with reflections on the writing process—including some in poetry. Read Tamarie’s other ESN reflections...
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Reshaped, Reworked, and Redeemed (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer...
We’re delighted to start summer with a new Scholar’s Compass series. Scholar’s Compass is our ongoing online devotional for academics. In it, we ask authors to write about how their academic vocations...
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“Where You Go, God Is” (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017,...
We’re delighted to start summer with a new Scholar’s Compass series. Scholar’s Compass is our ongoing online devotional for academics. In it, we ask authors to write about how their academic vocations...
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Living in Transition (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 3)
We’re delighted to start summer with a new Scholar’s Compass series. Scholar’s Compass is our ongoing online devotional for academics. In it, we ask authors to write about how their academic vocations...
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Living in the Moment (Scholar’s Compass Transitions Series Summer 2017, Post 4)
Photo by U2start We’re delighted to start summer with a new Scholar’s Compass series. Scholar’s Compass is our ongoing online devotional for academics. In it, we ask authors to write about how their...
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Thinking as Worship
Christian Brady recently shared a thoughtful Scholar’s Compass series on transitions with us. Here he reflects on the surprising origins of a quote he learned years ago, and on how its context sent him...
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The Bible Project — A daily engagement with the word of God
In January, I began a daily engagement of the Word/Story of God through The Bible Project. I have found The Bible Project a rich online resource to prayerfully consider and apply “How to Read the...
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Developing Christ-like Character in Grad School
Recently, I was pleased to write a recommendation for an outstanding 4th year medical student’s application for a residency program. I’ve been asked to write and review a number of recommendation...
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