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)