March 11, 2 pm ET. Most ESN members work within institutions. Our conversation with Gordon T. Smith, president of Anselm University, will explore how institutions work and how we may work intelligently and redemptively within them. Register at https://tinyurl.com/InstIntell.
Friday, February 5, 2021
Hosted by The Ohio Valley Grad & Faculty ministry- Intervarsity
Presenter
John Chae, MD
Vice President, Research and Sponsored Programs
The MetroHealth System
Professor and Chair, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation
Professor, Biomedical Engineering,
Case Western Reserve University
Video Link to Webinar Recording
Resources from Webinar
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This 40 minute presentation will focus on the experience of a survivor as he and his wife describe what life was like in a Japanese internment camp in China during World War II. A time for Q/A will follow. Note: This camp is where Eric Liddell [Chariots of Fire] was also imprisoned with nearly 2,000 others and Eric became the surrogate father of our guest presenter, now 92 but then only a teenager. Join us to hear about this extraordinary example of faith under trying times.
Meets weekly online on Zoom
Start date: January 13, Wednesday, 7:45am (Eastern time)
Book: Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure
ISBN: 0–06-063112-0
Author: Dr. Langdon Gilkey
About the book
Langdon Gilkey was a young American teacher at Yenching University near Pekig, China, when the Japanese military under wartime press ion rounded up all foreigners into an internment camp. Shantung Compound is based on a journal Dr. Kilkey kept during his imprisonment. Along with Gilkey were nearly 2000 others, a cross-section of humanity, businessmen, families, lawyers, doctors, missionaries (including Eric Liddell, [Chariots of Fire] the gold medal winner of the 400 yr. dash in the 1924 Olympics), junkies, prostitutes, little children, the old and infirm – in all about 2000 people. You will read of the moral problems arising in this polyglot community, some shocking and responses often surprising during their 2 1/2 year ordeal.
Time Magazine wrote: The camp became a living laboratory, a miniature society that illustrated the human condition and moral dilemmas in a way that would not have been possible had more conventional conditions prevailed. Shantung Compound, is a “fascinating memoir that is both a vivid diary of prison life and a theologian’s mature reflection on the condition of man in times of stress.”
Special Guest:
Among the missionaries imprisoned was a mother and her three children from Norway . One of her children at the time was a teenager named Hakon. Today Hakon is 92 and he and his wife are living on an organic farm in Minnesota. They will be our special guests on January 29, noon Eastern, for a webinar and we will hear his first-hand account of the ordeal his family went through, the special relationship with Eric Liddell who became his surrogate father, and answer our questions.
For more information and link to the Zoom discussion please contact Dr. Paul Post at OSU: post.1@osu.edu. or Howard Van Cleave voice/text: 614-404-7076
November 24, 12 pm ET.
Did you know that some of the most famous Christians through history experienced depression? Did you know graduate students are six times more likely to experience anxiety and depression than the general population? Drawing on these stories and her own experience, Diana Gruver will offer practical help for those experiencing the darkness, and those who walk with them. Sign up for this important conversation at tinyurl.com/dgruver.
November 10, 1 pm (US Eastern Time)
Michael Card, The Nazarene: Forty Devotions on the Lyrical Life of Jesus(link is external)
Musician and author Michael Card will talk with us about his most recent book, devotionals on the life of Christ. If you’re looking for devotional reading for the season of Thanksgiving and Advent, this is a great opportunity to meditate on the life of Christ in community.
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October 6, 7 pm ET.
The InterVarsity graduate chapters at the University of Cincinnati and Ohio State are co-sponsoring this event on Race, Faith, and the Academy. Students from both groups will respond to Rev. Dr. Weems’ presentation. The Emerging Scholars Network is delighted to help publicize and support this online Campus Conversation! Register at tinyurl.com/RJWeems (This session will be recorded)
October 16 @ 7pm and October 17 @ 12pm (US Eastern Time): Leading Lives of Purpose: The science of determining your work and calling for a lifetime
ESN and American Scientific Affiliation team up once again to bring you an interactive event on the science behind discerning your calling, wherever you are in your career. Event will be held twice in one weekend, so you can choose the time that is best for you.
