In Its Time
[The third post in a series on becoming a Christian physician. Earlier posts are Do You Want to Be a Doctor? and Helping People Is Not Enough]. Editor’s note: Lacking joy in the ordinary (and...
View ArticleA missionary calling to Africa for Christian academics: Part 1
Editor’s note: I had the privilege of meeting G. Randall Bond, M.D. at Urbana12. Randy was one of a number of people who visited the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN) booth to share not only a vision...
View ArticleA missionary calling to Africa for Christian academics: Part 2
Bujumbura, Burundi. Photo from What might missionary-educator life look like in Bujumbura, Burundi at HAU? (World Harvest Mission at Hope Africa University. Accessed 10/2/2013. 8:26 AM). Models There...
View ArticleScience In Review — October 2013
Protip: internal combustion involves as much heat as it sounds like it would Public domain I had a lot of time to think as I sat in the dark, waiting for the tow truck. I certainly wasn’t clinically...
View ArticleReasons: Why I am a Christian
“U Illinois arrays, by contrast, use the traditional semiconductor gallium arsenide (GaAs) and conventional metals for diodes and detectors.” — Coxworth, Ben. Flexible, Biocompatible LEDs Could Light...
View ArticleReasons: Why I am a Christian Part 2
Theresa Ginder Grosh watching over Tom and Theresa’s first child Elise Faith. Elise Faith lived eight days after being born at 23 weeks.(1) Every year, the translator at our pediatric hospital asks...
View ArticleScience Corner: Where the Viruses Have No Name
Photo by Argonne National Laboratory With all respect to the bard, there is power in a name — why else would Juliet consider changing hers? That’s why the WHO proposed new practices for naming a newly...
View ArticleTrouble in Mind: Attending to the Interplay of Mind and Body in Treating...
Photo by damien_thorne Psalm 139:13-14 (NASB): For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your...
View ArticleThe Residency Match: Medicine’s Romantic Comedy
For graduating 4th year medical students, spring brings warm weather, seasonal allergies, March Madness… and the dreaded Residency Match. The Match is kind of like medicine’s version of online dating....
View ArticleDuke Divinity Scholarships for Fellowship in Theology, Medicine, and Culture
Photo by fifteenthirty As we hear of opportunities that may be of interest to Christian scholars, we often share them at the ESN blog as a public service. Duke Divinity School shared this scholarship...
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