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Did you know that I'm part of a new, innovative Kingdom project (when am I not exploring fresh opportunities for Gospel work)? Well, what is it?

A blog for the Emerging Scholars Network ... for several years I've been advocating for a forum along these lines and I'm thrilled to work w/Mike Hickerson, Associate Director, Emerging Scholars Network, to explore this unchartered territory.

A brief aside:  God has been blessing our family in many ways this summer as we recieved the gift of Baby Lily Joy, I participated in my first Brethren in Christ Core Course, the twins entered 3rd grade, Eden began rumbling around, and the deck nears completion. It is a great joy to enter the fall term with such freshness.  To God be the glory!  Your prayers and partnership have been a great blessing.

So let me stop rambling in order for you to swing by and check out the Emerging Scholars Blog where I have posts on Andy Crouch’s brand new book Culture-Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling, Randy Pausch’s Last Lecture, and more to come over the course of the coming days, weeks, months. ... Please join the conversation by posting comments or dropping me an email with thoughts/reactions/topics for consideration.

Thank-you to Miller for some helpful reflections on depression, an area which is of great personal and vocational concern to him.  Anyone with thoughts of their own to share? 

seems depression is always a possibility for those of us who think a lot...a survey of harvard students showed that ten percent of them are clinically depressed, and half of them have times of depression when they can't operate...it seems to run in families...i think we don't realize we've been through a time of depression until we get on the other side of it, and look back...i am especially sympathetic toward students and friends who go through this. ... (More)

Are you unfamiliar with mood, tone, direction of InterVarsity? Then check out this video.

What's the specific passion and call which the Father has placed upon me? The people, ideas, and structures which which shape higher education ... I love the opportunity to walk side by side with the people of God, encouraging them as they live out their vocation as Christ followers on campus! Nothing like digging into the Word and material written by followers of Christ with faculty and administrators as they, by the Spirit of God, seek to live by faith day by day, student by student, class by class. Join me today in lifting up in prayer the people of the Book on campus (student, faculty, administrator, staff) as the fall term opens. Welcome class of 2012!

In the Weekly Bulletin from the Editors of Books & Culture Magazine, I came across the WSJ article Solzhenitsyn, Optimist.*  This will serve as an excellent article for our family as we continue dinner conversations on Thou Shall Not Lie, Jesus as the Truth, & following Christ in the real world (at home, on the bus, at school, and beyond). I'd encourage you to take some time to chew on the piece, here's the quote which I'm going to share with my family:

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In case you haven't already, take a few minutes to reflect upon Albert Mohler's "One Word of Truth Will Outweigh the Whole World" -- The Death of Alexander Solzhenitsyn) and Chuck Colson's (w/Anne Morse) Jeremiah at Harvard: Three decades after Solzhenitsyn's speech, where do we find ourselves?).  Their pieces are a good reminder of Solzhenitsyn's prophetic word to democracy which stands true today in America and Russia.

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I've mentioned Following Christ 08 several times before (e.g., N.T. Wright on the Colbert Report, Prayer for 2008-2009 Planning, Where should young emerging evangelicals turn for care and feeding), but how about a give-away of three $30 Amazon.com gift certificates. (Watch the video to learn how to enter.)

Picking up from yesterday's post Designed for Good, enjoy the video below.  May you find James Choung's material a blessing as you share the love of Christ with those to whom you have been called to live and minister among.  Note:  James' personal website is Tell It Slant

How do you [James Choung] hope this tool will change the way Christians themselves think of evangelism?

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Thank-you to Miller who passed along the link to Bible Expositor named for Urbana '09 (America's Center and the Edward Jones Dome in St. Louis, Missouri, on December 27-31, 2009). So who is the expositor?

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