I [Heather], while a Ph.D. student in English literature at the University of Michigan, struggled to understand a grander story beyond my own narcissistic ideas of what earning that degree would mean for my story. I wanted, like everyone else around me, to make a name for myself in my field. I wanted recognition, applause, […]
If the ultimate story is God’s story, and if our story finds its significance in light of God’s story, would it not follow that your particular life story is insignificant? The Scriptures resoundingly refute such thinking: God created each of us for the purpose of playing a unique role in his grand story. In Psalm […]
Last summer a retired professor and I [Rick] floated down 187 miles of the Grand Canyon, from the Lee’s Ferry launch to the Whitmore helipad, where a helicopter retrieved us from the bowels of the canyon. I will forever treasure this experience – for a litany of reasons – but chief among them is the […]
Do you remember responding to God’s high and holy call to become an academic? Perhaps you imagined that being an academic meant tackling the world’s greatest problems around a crackling fire (picture Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the Inklings in that Oxford pub) in the camaraderie of friends. Even if you didn’t see yourself in a […]
I never really wanted to be a college professor and I certainly did not want to be a missionary. I wanted to get a Ph.D. in engineering along with some MBA courses and become the CEO of some large technical company. In fact, my Christian life stalled during the middle of my seven years at […]
As amazing as this sounds, you and I have been sent to the respective university where we each work. In John 20:21, Jesus tells His disciples following His resurrection: “As the Father sent me, so I’m sending you.” Jesus was merely passing on the same sense of calling He had—a sense made unmistakable by the […]
