A Tree Grows on Campus
Biblical imagery of the tree is particularly relevant to the work and presence of Christian professors on campus.

Advent: God's Invitations
Calling advent "a very female season," Sharon Gartland considers how we hear and respond to God's invitations.

An Invitation from God: Healing from Catastrophic Thinking
Spiritual Director and author Adele Calhoun recounts her own experience looking for the invitation God might have for her in the midst of too much to do.

At a Loss for Words: Finding Prayer Through Liturgy, Silence, and Embodiment
At an unaccustomed loss for words, Tish Harrison Warren discovers prayer in liturgy, silence, and embodiment.

Attending to Mary's Theology
Grace Chiu looks into Mary's Magnificat and calls us to the joy, humility, and confidence Mary's theology reveals.

Giving up a Grad Student Approach to God
Carrie Francis realized her relationship with God was suffering even as she filled her spare time in grad school with ministry.

Hide-and-Seek God
Do you experience the joy of God's playfulness? Carmen Acevedo Butcher finds evidence of it in the literature she studies and in her life.

How Does Your Garden Grow?
Sharon Gartland recognizes the need for a master gardener to tend her flourishing but sometimes unruly life.

Lent: Emptiness, Fear, and Fullness
Tish Harrison Warren took on stillness for Lent and found when she slowed down and invited Jesus in, she was forced to face things she might usually ignore.

Make Peace with Your Whole Crazy Family
Sharon Gartland longs to have her academic friends meet Jesus, but wrestles with introducing them to her fellow Christians.

Navigating Singleness: Finding Love That Will Not Let You Go
Amid the cacophony of advice from well-meaning friends, writer Grace Chiu finds the most difficult counsel she's had to wrestle with is from God himself.

Reflection: Poured Out
Is what you've done good enough? What do you do when you feel all your hard work has been for nothing?

Reflection: The Given Life
Kelly Monroe Kullberg describes how her given life has been the framework and inspiration for her larger cultural calling.

Reflection: Why I Teach
A biology professor sees a garden as she cultivates her students' growth and delights in their bloom.

Reflections: Asking for Good Things
What do you need to get your job done? Are you comfortable asking for it? Sharon Gartland sees biblical precedent for our requests.

Reflections: Behind the Scenes
Anesthesiologist Debra Schwinn describes backstage work as the most important calling of our lives.

Reflections: Flourishing in the New Year
Beverly Chen reflects on the practices that enable her to flourish in the academy.

Reflections: Grace to Enter the Desert
Nicole Shirilla invites us to enter the desert of our hearts and confront the temptation that God is not enough.

Reflections: Great Plans
What do you do when God's plans for you seem overwhelming and you're running on empty?

Reflections: Measuring Up
Receiving negative feedback is hard for us all. How should we respond?

Reflections: Parted on the Wrong Side
Sharon Gartland describes how emotional discomfort may be the stimulus for change needed in our lives.

Reflections: Schedule Recovery
Journalist Christine Tatum's encounter with a computer technician has her reviewing her calendar and commitments.

Reflections: Small Everyday Battles
Grace Chiu reflects on the everyday struggles of the dissertator.

Reflections: The Good Life
As we prepare for Following Christ 2008 with its theme of "human flourishing," conference emcee Kathy Tuan-MacLean reflects on the source of a good life.

Reflections: The Perfect Boss
Sharon Gartland speaks to the struggle of submitting to the less-than-perfect leaders in our lives.

Reflections: Unknown Places
Venturing into unfamiliar territory, Grace Chiu finds hope and perspective in her great-grandmother's story.

Rock Polishing
Nikki Toyama-Szeto wonders why we as Christians try to look like well-polished specimens rather than enter the rock-tumbler that might actually reveal — and heal — our flaws.

The Art of Conversation
Sharon Gartland encourages us to be willing to listen well and process communally in this election year.

The Little Way
Grad faculty staff Kathy Tuan-MacLean considers if we are really to bring good news to the academy, perhaps we needed to embody the opposite.

The Thousand Gifts
What difference might it make to record a list of God's gifts? Author Ann Voskamp found it life-changing.

The Wheels Are Coming Off!
Sharon Gartland reflects on creating a life with margin in the midst of family, job, and life stresses.