{"id":52797,"date":"2020-04-14T13:14:54","date_gmt":"2020-04-14T13:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/?p=52797"},"modified":"2022-11-09T15:42:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:42:56","slug":"a-prayer-for-education-and-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/2020\/04\/14\/a-prayer-for-education-and-research\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for Education and Research"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today we resurrect the importance of Education and Research. Education research consists of descriptive, association, and intervention. Research by practitioners, identifies a problem, clarifies the problem, determines the problem, organizes the data and interprets the results. We celebrate all the work and skill sets to do this work.\u00a0 <\/span>According to the American sociologist Earl Robert Babbie, \u201cResearch is a systematic inquiry to describe, explain, predict, and control the observed phenomenon. Research involves inductive and deductive methods.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

As the world continues to struggle through the COVID-19 Pandemic, the importance of <\/span>higher education, research and academics is universal. The creativity and scholarship of undergraduate and graduate students and research is crucial in understanding the transmission of and preventing the spread of the virus, as well as discovering a cure or antivirus for the virus proves to be very challenging.\u00a0 Researchers everywhere are working tirelessly to accelerate research techniques to find a cure, and inform preventive actions, and to better prepare for future potential viruses. Students researchers today are the answer to our problems of tomorrow.<\/span> Humankind needs answers in order to evolve. Research is crucial to advancing all industries, it is the gateway to exploration, discovery, and problem-solving. <\/span>Today we offer a scripture and\u00a0 PRAYER FOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n

Philippians 4:8\u00a0 (NRSV)<\/span><\/p>\n

Finally, beloved,\u00a0whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about<\/span> these things.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let us pray,<\/p>\n

All wise God, we give you thanks for the gifts and the calling of researchers, students and professionals. Gracious Lord, every good and perfect gift comes from you and we thank you for the gift of research.\u00a0 You who created all from your wisdom and knowledge are generous toward us all. God of resurrection, we praise you for you have given researchers the mind to see the tomb from the inside out, to discover meaning. Good Teacher, you equip the academy with the necessary curiosity and skill to dissect the inner workings of problems. Teach us all to appreciate and learn from them and the benefits of their research.\u00a0 Help and strengthen them when they grow weary and tired. We pray you reward them for their dedication and guide them to great discovery. Bless them with the wisdom of Solomon, the curiosity of Moses, the patience of Job, the devotion of David, the trust of Joseph, the gratitude of Paul and the faith of the gentile woman to continue in this work and study. And finally Lord, we ask you to protect and keep them and their families from all hurt, harm or danger. Lord, you who practices steadfast love, justice and righteousness in the world, it is in your name we pray. Amen<\/span><\/p>\n

Rev. Babette Chatman, University Pastor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we resurrect the importance of Education and Research. Education research consists of descriptive, association, and intervention. Research by practitioners, identifies a problem, clarifies the problem, determines the problem, organizes the data and interprets the results. We celebrate all the work and skill sets to do this work.\u00a0 According to the American sociologist Earl Robert …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,119],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chapel","category-prayer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52797"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53204,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52797\/revisions\/53204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/campusministry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}