ESN members seek to be a redeeming influence among the people, ideas, and structures of academia.
Recent Resources
Religious Bias in Academia
Tom Trevethan reviews the new book Compromising Scholarship: Religious and Political Bias in American Higher Education by George Yancey, Professor of Sociology at the University of North Texas.
Road to the Professorate
ESN Associate Director, Micheal Hickerson, maps out an ideal route to becoming a professor. There may be bumps along the way, but keep your destination in mind.
How Can We Change the University?
C. John Sommerville expounds on the assertion that now is a time of opportunity for Christians in the university, introduced in his book Decline of the Secular University, to tell us how we must now embark on changing the academic world.
A Christian Theology of Mentoring
Is there a theological basis for academic mentoring? Tom Trevethan and Nan Thomas explore the question in a paper originally presented at the Maclaurin Institute's faculty mentoring conference.
Audio: Faith & Academic Commitments in a Post-Modern World
What does theology have to do with other academic disciplines? Alan Padgett of Luther Seminary provides a model for the engagement of theology with academic disciplines, using postmodern philosophy as an example, at the 2008 Wisconsin Symposium. Originally published at FacultyMinistry.org.
