A Full Education
Grad student Katelin Hansen builds relationships across racial and socioeconomic lines while lamenting the lack of diversity in graduate programs.

Alone in a (Church) Crowd
Author Diane Paddison recognizes the isolation many academic and business women have in their churches and gives suggestions for change.

An Indian Academic's Unexpected Path
Writer Kami Rice introduces us to the story of Susheila Williams' perseverance in obtaining her advanced degrees and the remarkable work she has since accomplished.

Beginning Well: Advice for New Grad Students
Here are helpful articles to help you survive and thrive in grad school.

Between the Academy and a Profession
MFA grad Rebecca Rogers considers faith in the midst of endless job applications in unresponsive directions.

Broken For You
When Jamie Yeo is asked to serve communion at her church, she is terrified of being called out, "Hey, who let you in? What do you think you're doing?" until her thought is claimed by another idea.

Christian Faculty in Secular Colleges and Universities: Challenges and Opportunities for Integration
Professor Christy Moran Craft reports on a qualitative research study designed to look at how Christian faculty members express their faith within public institutions.

Clinker Bricks
A professor of the history of Christianity learns to tell the truth about the giants of the faith and about herself.

Compulsive Comparisons
Comparing oneself to others can reach new heights when the comparison is based on the progress of a dissertation.

Considering a Christian College Calling
The question of calling doesn't end with what the career will be. Where you pursue your calling is nearly as significant.

Dangerous Truths and True Dangers: Can — and Should — Christians Read Novels?
English professor Laura Veltman finds Truth in fiction and gives some suggested readings.

Do I Measure Up?
Chrissy Jeske recognizes the pressures of being "measured," whether for grad school, jobs, or in relationships.

Fight, Flight, or Flourish?
ABD. Grace Chiu considers how to respond to this challenging time in the life of a graduate student.

Finding God in Literature
Though living hundreds of years apart, T. S. Elliot and Julian of Norwich both affirmed that in Christ, "all shall be well and all manner of thing shall be well."

Finding Life In-between
Jamie Noyd gives examples from literature, the Bible, and her own work of lives changing in "liminal" moments.

God Said "No"
With her own experience in mind, author Chrissy Jeske rejects self-pity and bitterness and considers the window God provides.

Great Expectations
Data indicates happiness is declining for women worldwide, even in the face of greater opportunity and freedom. Halee Gray Scott suggests how Christian women might respond.

Heading East
Join writer Kami Rice as she takes a second trip to India, eager to explore questions touched off by her first visit. The Well borrows this blog post from the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN).

How to Find the Right Church After Grad School
Finding the right church can be a struggle after experiencing close grad school fellowships.

I'll Be Singing
Returning to graduate school and overwhelmed with the added responsibilities of being a spouse, parent, and homeowner, Chrissy Jeske found encouragement in an unexpected place.

In Focus: Asking the Right Question
How do you measure your success in the academic world? It all depends on which questions you ask.

In Focus: Birthing the Word
Jerusha Matsen Neal discusses her work as pastor and dramatist in an interview with The Well.

In Focus: Call Waiting
Is the Christian notion of calling really a helpful one? Debra Rienstra, on faculty at Calvin College, reflects on some troubling implications of our understanding of vocation.

In Focus: Considering the Call to be Childless
Hillary Lum explores the motivations, perspectives, and experiences of two Christian women who with their husbands chose to be childless.

In Focus: Journeying to the Christ Child
Works of art speak to those of us on a journey, writes art historian Linda Stratford, allowing us to hear God's voice.

In Focus: Keeping Sabbath
Tish Harrison describes how the weekly practice of ceasing from work and embracing rest and play has become her touchstone.

In Focus: Keeping the Unity of the Spirit
An ethnographer encourages Christians to build bridges of solidarity with believers around the world.

In Focus: Loving the Academic Life
Dorothy Boorse reminds us of the rewards of an academic life.

In Focus: Pushing Boundaries
Have you encountered walls in your personal or spiritual path that seem insurmountable? Susan Smetzer-Anderson probes these seeming roadblocks and what they might mean for our lives.

In Focus: The Yeast Factor
What does it mean to be the yeast factor? Professor and spiritual director MaryKate Morse explores Jesus' use of this surprising image in his parable of the kingdom.

Investment Values
Sarah Pechan calls readers to not contribute to poverty production with their funding and gives resources for socially responsible investing.

It is Good: Seasons in a Career
Physician and mother Tricia Hall describes seasons in her work life, including some far different from those she envisioned as a student.

Living into the Promise of Graduate School
Graduate student Jayme Yeo describes the opportunities and obstacles for spiritual, personal, and professional growth in grad school.

Living Out My Vocation as a Female Professor
Sociology professor Margarita Mooney, with the help of Edith Stein, considers how women can reclaim a feminine ethos in all walks of life.

Making Margins
Margins make a visual design — and a life — more appealing. But, Chrissy Jeske asks, how do we make that space?

Making Margins, Part 2
Chrissy Jeske promised to report back on her effort to create margins in her life. How did she do?

Making Space for God in a College Classroom
Writing professor Heather Holleman invites students into her home and into her life.

Mud Is Joyful
Author Christine Jeske finds joy in the mud and muck of life and calls us to enter in.

Of Acts Ongoing
An anthropologist of religion describes her experience with new believers in Zambia and how, as in the book of Acts, conversion brings a reexamination of culture.

On Tutorhood
Freelance writer Adele Konondyk sees tutoring an adult literacy student as an act of kindness as much as it is an act of teaching.

Opals
English professor Angie Crea O'Neal considers the mysteries of the opal, her October birthstone, in this creative non-fiction reflection for The Well.

Re-imagining Hope
What purpose does art have in the church and in our world? Artist Bobbette Rose travels to Africa and back considering the question.

Remembering Helen Hynes Hill: An Interview with InterVarsity President Alec Hill
As a single mother, she worked as a beloved and dedicated teacher, studied for her PhD, and raised three boys — including InterVarsity president Alec Hill. The Well interviewed Alec about her influence on his life.

Research Opportunity: Seeing God's Hand in Creation
Ph.D. candidate Jennifer Bonina-Noseworthy finds her research on winter squash imbued with elements of worship and meaning.

Return of the Ezer
Carolyn Custis James' study of the Hebrew word ezer changed how she thinks of herself and how she understands God's call to women.

Seeking Environmental Justice in Southeast Asia
Laura Yoder's experience with small scale tropical farmers and their political environment has transformed her practice and her teaching.

Spiritual Difficulties on the Job Market
A PhD grad shares her experience searching for an academic position in the humanities.

Ten Ideas for Valentine's Day
Ambivalent about Valentine's Day? Our writers suggest ten ways to make Valentine's Day memorable.

Tending Your Relationship with God through Spiritual Direction
Sara Scheunemann describes her own experience with spiritual direction and its place in deepening her relationship with God.

The Commuting Life
Susanna Childress describes her experience dividing life between a teaching position in Indiana and a home in Michigan.

The Gift of Discipline
Graduate student Jenn Anderson finds in her new discipline of running, lessons for engagement and challenge in all areas of her life.

The Spiritual Discipline of Indifference
Passionate about almost everything, the call to indifference takes Kathy Tuan-MacLean by surprise.

The Stair-Runner
Halee Gray Scott finds her calling making connections between the colonnade and the cathedral.

Thoughtful Faith and Faithful Thought
Jayme Yeo finds her academic work and her faith can richly inform each other and gives practical resources for work and faith integration.

To Do What I Am Able
Diana Mao co-founded Nomi Network to use education and enterprise to help put an end to human trafficking.

Trust in His Call: Wait
What happens when you are unable to pursue what you believed to be God's call? Jean Geran shares from her own experience and highlights two reminders for those going through times of dryness and frustration.

What I Wish My Pastor Knew About... The Life of a Scientist
Andy Crouch, married to physicist Catherine Crouch, describes the scientific life itself as a vocation that can reflect the image of God — a vocation to be attended to and prayerfully encouraged and supported.

Wrestling with God
A fighter and questioner by nature learns to love asking questions about her faith.

You Are Not Alone
Whether single or married, the experience of loneliness occurs, but that does not mean we are alone.