Last month, as I celebrated Thanksgiving, I took a moment to remember how thankful I am for your support of Global Scholars. Because of you, professors around the world are learning how to integrate their faith with their teaching and research. Because of you, students are hearing the gospel and understanding that the Christian faith makes sense. Thank you!
In last month’s PROFile newsletter, I shared some of the things our Regional Representatives have been grateful for over the past year. If you missed that, you can read it here. As promised, this month I am sharing more expressions of thankfulness from our Regional Representatives. Please join me in praising God for these stories of transformation!
Osam Temple, our Regional Representative for Anglophone Africa, is thankful for professors like Thomas who are learning to see their universities as a mission field. Osam writes:
Thomas, in Sierra Leone, is a young scholar who wasn’t quite sure of his career path. As the best graduating student in his master’s degree class, everybody expected him to pursue an academic career. In fact, he had already been hired as an assistant professor and has been teaching for three years. The problem, however, is that he wasn’t convinced this was his path. As a very committed Christian, he didn’t see an academic career as a priority. … This is the situation in many African countries. … The story changed as soon as he joined the Society of Christian Scholars and attended our Nairobi conference. For the first time, he saw a clear career path as a Christian academic. He is now able to see how he can contribute in many ways to God’s kingdom as an academic.
Omar Montero, our Regional Representative for Latin America, is thankful for God’s work in the life of Matias, a young engineer at a university research center. Matias told Omar about the change in his mindset thanks to the mentoring and training provided by the Society of Christian Scholars:
I can glorify God through all I do, including at my job. Especially at my job! It is one of the activities where I invest the most time. In the Society of Christian Scholars, I found people who want to transform the world and love God with their minds. We met with several Christian scholars to learn about apologetics. I can say now that I am really blessed by the grace of the almighty God that has radically transformed my life in only one year.
Thank you for being part of this growth in the lives of Thomas and Matias. You are making a difference. May God bless you this Christmas season as you reflect on the birth of Jesus.
For Christ and the university,
Stan
My guest in this episode of the College Faith podcast is Brian Mann, National Director of InterVarsity’s ministry among students in fraternities and sororities. As many students are on campuses with Greek houses, I’ve asked Brian to help us understand what the Greek System is and the pros and cons of “going Greek” at college.
In this episode of the Thinking Christianly podcast, we continue our series by engaging Chapter 3 of my new book Have We Lost Our Minds? Neuroscience, Neurotheology, the Soul, and Human Flourishing. We discuss how understanding identity can help us understand neural events and mental events, key differences between reductive and non-reductive physicalism, and more.
Our December prayer calendar is now posted on our website. Download the prayer calendar to pray for professors, students, and current needs in higher education.
