I never would have guessed that posting something on my two favorite historical novelists would have generated the kind of response that it did, but let me push my luck by adding representatives of a different kind of historical fiction to my summer reading list. Still jazzed about Tuesday morning’s discussion of World War I … More More Beach Reads
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Sunday, January 20, 2013 – Paris Today in real time happens to be my wedding anniversary; “today” in the course is scheduled as a … More A Day of Rest
Well, we’re a month into this experiment in blogging, and I appreciate all the views, comments, and e-mails! Here are the ten most popular posts from the first thirty days of The Pietist Schoolman: What the World Needs Now… The Anabaptist Vision Nevinson’s War Over There Pledging Allegiance Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War … More One Month Down…
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Saturday, January 19, 2013 – Paris Both the political capital of the first modern nation-state and the cultural capital, in several writers’ judgment, of … More Expats
This afternoon we’ll pick up our series examining the critique of Pietism bound up in the “Anabaptist vision” promoted by Harold Bender and like-minded Mennonite scholars in the mid-20th century. Last time I noted that Bender’s critique (as substantially developed by Robert Friedmann) continued to influence neo-Anabaptist scholars like the young Mennonite Brethren professors who … More The Anabaptist Revision
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Friday, January 18, 2013 – Paris If it feels like I haven’t had a lot to say recently about the titular topic of this … More What If?
7/18/11 – In for a social media penny, in for a pound. Over the weekend I sold what remained of my soul and joined Twitter. Follow me @cgehrz.
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Thursday, January 17, 2013 – Versailles HOLLYWOOD FOR $1200: Which American president was the subject of the 1944 film, nominated for ten Oscars, that … More “The Right Kind of Peace”
As I noted in my very first post on this blog, I’m not an early adopter. So I’m probably the ten millionth person to realize that Google has an application called Reader that lets you easily digest the contents of any blog that interests you without the trouble of actually visiting it. All of which … More That Was the Week That Was
I’ve tried very, very hard not to litter this blog with reflections on my love of television. But two things happened this week that, in combination, proved too much for me to resist. #1. A marginally popular drama called Friday Nights Lights reached the end of its fifth and final season last night. #2. Chuck … More Teary Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose
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