In this episode, I’m continuing my sporadic series on various campus ministries. I’m joined by Jaime Noyd, the Director of the Emerging Scholars Network (ESN). We discuss what ESN is and how it will be of great help to you if you are considering following God’s call to one day serve Christ as a professor.

In this podcast we discuss:

How Jamie came to direct ESN
Why ESN exists–the vision of the ministry
How scholarship can be a sacred calling
If students may join ESN if they are not involved in InterVarsity
How students can join ESN before they start college
Some examples of students greatly helped by ESN
Where ESN is going in the next 20 years
Questions to regularly ask yourself (or others) in following God’s calling to the professorate
The next step to joining ESN

Resources mentioned during our conversation:

Emerging Scholars Network website
Contacting Jamie: esn@intervarsity.org
The American Scientific Affiliation
Christian Professional Societies
InterVarsity Graduate & Faculty Ministries
Cru’s Graduate Student Resources
Veritas Forum Communities
The Society of Christian Scholars
The International Fellowship of Evangelical Students
Christianity and Intellectual Inquiry: Thinking as Pilgrimage by Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen
The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods by A.J. Sertillanges
Love The Lord Your God With All Your Mind: The Role of Reason in the Life of the Soul by J.P. Moreland
Courage and Calling: Embracing Your God-Given Potential by Gordon T. Smith
The Call by Os Guinness
Getting What You Came For: The Smart Student’s Guide to Earning a Master’s or Ph.D. by Robert L. Peters
The Thinking Christianly podcast
Scholars’ Compass (ESN devotionals)
The Biblical Story and the Story of the Academic Disciplines (free with a Society of Christian Scholars membership)