“Then Jesus said to his disciples, ‘Whoever wants to be my disciple must deny themselves, take up their cross and follow me. For whoever wishes to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. What good will it be for someone to gain the whole world, […]
On the 10th day of our little girl Elizabeth’s life, she was rushed by ambulance to Vanderbilt Children’s Hospital after she stopped breathing several times. Watching a team of doctors and nurses work to insert IVs into her tiny body, eventually by drilling into her little legs, brought me to tears (and still does as […]
Have you ever questioned why you work in academia? I have. In a particularly challenging part of the 2023-2024 academic year, I questioned my place in academia. I confided in a sister in Christ and shared that ‘endless emails and zoom calls’ certainly couldn’t be my calling. Her simple response gave me pause. She said, […]
“You won’t believe how God just answered our prayers!” I sent this message to our Faculty Commons leaders after our monthly gathering where we pray for our campus and students. That morning after reading and reflecting on Psalm 3:3, “But you, O LORD, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my […]
A friend loves at all times,and a brother is born for a time of adversity. – Proverbs 17:17 In Spring 2021, I was diagnosed with cancer. I was serving as interim department co-chair at this time while our department chair was on sabbatical. This was during the pandemic, and I was working from home. Soon, […]
I was raised in a religious family, attending church regularly and being educated in religious schools from my early childhood up through college at Villanova University. While I had the benefit of being raised in a Christian home, my faith walk has not been a smooth or easy one. Abuse and Dysfunction I had an […]
Joe and I are retired industry executives and had been colleagues for years at the same company. Our wives also have the same career field – nursing. Together the four of us enjoyed dinners together, traded recipes, traveled, and wandered the stalls at farmers markets. Because of our shared history, it surprised no one that […]
Just before 5pm on a Thursday, I tried to be inconspicuous as I joined the small cluster of people waiting in a hallway outside a classroom. My stomach was a little jumpy and my hands not quite dry; it had taken me four years to get to this point, and now that it was here, […]
When I started as a professor ten years ago, I wondered how to go public with my faith. My own time as a university student and follower of Jesus had been a great journey of discovery: of life, of growing up, of traveling, of reflection, of learning…and all of this with Jesus himself and many […]
The mottled light filtered through a large canopy of trees as we stepped off the train and onto the platform serving the tiny rural village. A few moments later, my friend and I came to, what appeared to be, the main street running east and west through town. We paused long enough to look both […]
