{"id":6891,"date":"2025-12-10T13:52:11","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/?p=6891"},"modified":"2025-12-10T13:58:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T18:58:20","slug":"a-holy-nudge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/campus.cru.org\/faculty\/2025\/a-holy-nudge\/","title":{"rendered":"A Holy Nudge"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6891\" class=\"elementor elementor-6891\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-efa2382 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"efa2382\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-d2d80c8\" data-id=\"d2d80c8\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3639d99 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3639d99\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>During my senior year of undergrad, I signed up for a class far outside my mechanical engineering curriculum\u2014<em>Freud Debates Lewis<\/em>\u2014offered through the honors college.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section data-particle_enable=\"false\" data-particle-mobile-disabled=\"false\" class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-b2517fd elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"b2517fd\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-8daf040\" data-id=\"8daf040\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2e344d8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"2e344d8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">As someone who had grown up loving C.S. Lewis\u2019s\u00a0<em>The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe,<\/em>\u00a0but had never studied Freud, I was intrigued by the chance to explore faith, culture, and reason from two opposing worldviews.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Toward the end of the semester, I met with my professor to discuss my final paper. As we wrapped up, he paused, looked at me, and asked, \u201cAre you a Christian?\u201d I said yes. He nodded, then asked which department I was in. When I replied \u201cMechanical Engineering,\u201d he said something that has stuck with me ever since: \u201cI used to know a few Christian professors in your department\u2026but I don\u2019t know of any now.\u201d<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong>Reshape My Calling<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">That sentence sank into me. I realized\u2014I didn\u2019t know any either. In fact, several professors had explicitly stated in class that they weren\u2019t Christians. God stirred something in me in that moment. I began to wonder:\u00a0<em>What if God wants me to step into that gap? What if this degree, this discipline, could be used to serve a deeper purpose?<\/em><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the time, I had been wrestling with whether or not to pursue a PhD. Deep down, I sensed I would go for it, but I still lacked clarity. That short conversation became a holy nudge. God began to reshape how I viewed my calling\u2014not just as a student or future engineer, but as someone who could reflect His light in academic spaces.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\"><strong>Living Faithfully in Academia<\/strong><\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Since then, God has continued to confirm that calling. Through transitions, challenges, and now pursuing my PhD at the University of Tennessee, I\u2019ve seen Him open my eyes to how faith and scholarship intertwine. From attending a talk by Heather Holleman, to praying with faculty, God keeps placing people in my path to remind me: He\u2019s at work here, too.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now more than ever, I feel a sense of purpose\u2014not just in completing research or earning a degree, but in living faithfully in the world of academia. My prayer is that through my work, conversations, and presence, others might see Christ and be encouraged to follow Him.<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400;text-align: center\">\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014\u2014<\/p><p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Editor\u2019s note<\/strong>: Breanna recently defended her dissertation and ended it with a witness to the wonders of the Creator. 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