I am stepping back into academia this year after a two-year detour working at my church. This brings with it a fresh excitement for returning to Boise State and engaging in ministry with students and faculty here. What I wasn’t prepared for – and have been pleasantly surprised by – is the movement of Christ […]
As I neared retirement, I was apprehensive about what I would do. The world has a view of retirement that differs significantly from the biblical view of service to The Kingdom. Many who follow the world’s egocentric advice end up being bored, isolated, and purposeless. Contrastingly, Christians recognize Solomon’s counsel in Proverbs 16:9: “The mind […]
During my senior year of undergrad, I signed up for a class far outside my mechanical engineering curriculum—Freud Debates Lewis—offered through the honors college. As someone who had grown up loving C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, but had never studied Freud, I was intrigued by the chance to explore faith, culture, and reason […]
My husband James and I met as students at the University of Florida. Four years ago, we were grateful that God led us back as faculty, opening opportunities to engage with current students, and join my home department of Microbiology and Cell Science. For several years, on each of my birthdays, I seek a word […]
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9 The trouble was—I had become just that: weary. On the outside, everything in my ministry at work looked the same. I identified myself as a Christian in the classroom, […]
As a young mechanical engineering professor in the 1990s, I was blessed to have senior colleagues who were strong believers. That made it easy for me to be open about my Christian faith with other faculty. I still had fears about sharing with students until I sat in a class with one of those senior […]
One of my favorite things about my job is mentoring students who hope to become attorneys. In my own college and law school experience, the Lord used people and programs for low-income students to help me get started. As a pre-law advisor I work with students who overwhelmingly come from backgrounds like mine. To equip and encourage […]
“Fall forward in faith” – one of my pastor’s favorite sayings – echoed in my head as the young lady in front of me started veering off topic during our 30-minute meeting. I was teaching a doctoral methods class and met with each student in the first couple of weeks to customize their final project. […]
The Cru mission trip to Poland had gone well. Our Faculty Commons group had joined the student ministry group from Chicago sharing the gospel on campus with Polish students in Poznan. Everything had gone smoothly until that morning. We missed our train and lost our reserved seats to Krakow! The Plan Was to Get […]
“Jill” (not her real name) had just finished her undergrad degree in engineering and was working on her MBA. She had recently gotten out of a toxic relationship and was confused and lonely. She was struggling with her concept of God and who He is. She called me and we talked on the phone a […]
