Midway through my first semester at Colorado School of Mines, I took my next faith step as a Christian professor. I briefly shared in class some personal details about myself to help my ~100 students to get to know me better as a person, not just as their teacher. I also passed out 3×5 cards […]
I was not called to be a Professor who happens to be a Christian; I was called to be a Christian Professor who professes to being a follower of Jesus. This meant professing my Christian faith in some legal and professional appropriate way. But what might this be? My first faith barrier as a graduate […]
It has been a full and fun 30 years, and I also know that it is not too late to make the most of every opportunity on campus during the twilight years of my professorship. I have learned that weighing opportunities in terms of eternal value is key. /*! elementor – v3.6.4 – 13-04-2022 */ […]
In my seven years of taking undergraduate and graduate courses, none of my professors were willing to identify themselves as Christians. Conversely, there certainly was no shortage of professors willing to ridicule Christianity. This absence of a Christian presence in the university began to rock my own spiritual foundation in a very significant way. I […]
Most faculty now have a website or a homepage. I have a homepage (http://kenelzinga.com/), something that was done for all the members of my department of economics at UVA. This happened several years ago, but I still remember my graduate student, who was very web-savvy, and was hired to set up a homepage for all […]
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I’m trying to learn how to de-emphasize credentials as I learn to model the servanthood of Jesus. I know that much of my propensity is to emphasize academic and financial and institutional credentials; and that comes from my own deep insecurities. Credentialing can be a barrier between professors and between professors and students. The business […]
The conventional talk about Christianity in academic life is, “What does it mean to do biology or philosophy or economics or French literature from a Christian perspective?” David Dockery wrote that Christian higher education meant not only an integration of faith and learning but an integration of faith and living. This suggests considering what it […]
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Ut elit tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo. Now retired from the Academy, I have had a year to reflect on my service as an educator, a scientist, and an administrator, prompting the question: Was I a success? Twelve years of my tenure were spent […]
Integrating my academic discipline with my walk with Christ often proves more difficult than the task of identifying myself as a Christ-follower to colleagues and students. At first, I just hadn’t thought about connecting my faith in Jesus to my work in human physiology. /*! elementor – v3.6.4 – 13-04-2022 */ .elementor-heading-title{padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title[class*=elementor-size-]>a{color:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-small{font-size:15px}.elementor-widget-heading .elementor-heading-title.elementor-size-medium{font-size:19px}.elementor-widget-heading […]
