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Blog articles offer practical advice, personal experiences, and responses to current events from the vantage point of life in academia.

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February 04, 2016
By Christine Wagoner
Avoiding the Drive-Thru: Accepting God's Invitation to Lunch
I love going on road trips with friends. You learn a lot about your friends when you’re in the car with them for hours at a time. I have learned that Jill should never be given more than one Biggie Iced Tea during a trip, if you don’t want...
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February 02, 2016
By Kathy Tuan-MacLean
My Uneasy Relationship with Leadership

For years, I rejected my call to be a leader. Or at least, I rejected embracing the identity of being a leader by calling everything I did that looked “leaderly” something else...

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January 28, 2016
By Dorcas Cheng-Tozun
The Gift of Mortality

Would you want to live to be 1000 years old if you could? Dorcas Cheng-Tozun explores this provocative question and its implications on her life today.

 

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January 19, 2016
By Jessica Fox
Urbana 15: A Graduate Student Review

For the many undergraduate attendees, Urbana conferences are rich with mountain-top experiences, diverse prayer opportunities, mission trip destinations, well-priced InterVarsity Press books, special-interest groups, and thousands of like-minded individuals. But what is it like to attend Urbana as a grad student?

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January 14, 2016
By Tish Harrison Warren
My Lord and Migraine

Since my early twenties, I’ve gotten migraines. It is hard for me to describe them without sounding dramatic. They are, in actuality, a little dramatic. And they have shaped me, my life, my family, and my view of God.

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January 13, 2016
By Anna Moseley Gissing
Christena Cleveland at Urbana 15: “Power of Us”

Dr. Christena Cleveland is a hero of mine: an accomplished social psychologist, associate professor at Duke, friend of The Well, a woman of vibrant faith. What does it mean when I say she is “one of us”? 

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January 05, 2016
By Christine Jeske
What to do on a commute

For many people, commuting falls into a category alongside purgatory, jail time, and colonoscopies.  I like to hope these hours we while away in subways, buses, and highways have some greater potential...

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December 24, 2015
By Ashley Van Dragt
A Real, Messy Nativity
When you grow up with divorced parents, Christmas is messy. I have this distinct memory of the first Christmas I spent with my newly single dad. When we got to his small, under-furnished apartment, I think it hit all of us...

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