Beth Allison Barr and prayer for a new school year
At The Well This Week
Are you wondering how to pray at the start of a new academic year? Or looking around and seeing so much to pray for, but feeling unsure where to start? We asked Carrie Bare, InterVarsity’s Associate Director for Spiritual Formation of Faculty, to share her wisdom and some practical suggestions for prayer at the beginning of a new semester.
“It’s like standing on a high hill and looking down — I can’t quite see what’s there, what it will be like when I get down there. Every new year is like this, but now, today, there is more uncertainty and less stability or predictability. How to pray?” — Carrie Bare
Our most recent podcast episode is one of my all-time favorites. This conversation with Beth Allison Barr covers her book, The Making of Biblical Womanhood, her journey to her current job, and the nuts and bolts of being a woman in academia.
“I'm always a hopeful person.... It's hard to honestly believe in Christianity and not believe that we can be better because Christianity is about resurrection, it's about new life, it's about the old dying and the new being born…. It doesn't mean we're not discouraged, it doesn't mean to don't want to tear our hair out, but at the same time we've got to realize the problem isn't with God, the problem is with flawed people — and this is why we need Jesus.” — Beth Allison Barr on her hope for the church
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“Mother Knows Best — Even Insect Mothers Provide for their Offspring” from our friends at ESN.