My favorite story making the blog rounds today concerns a new release from Concordia Publishing House: This is the story, from birth to death, of Martin Luther who headed a revolution that changed the world. From a small town in medieval Germany, the Reformation resulted in dramatic, sweeping change that still echoes today. Here is … More Luther!
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. Wednesday, January 16, 2013 – Paris You wouldn’t think that the seemingly random combination of these four words could yield 2.1 million hits on … More “Cheese Eating Surrender Monkeys”
7/14/11 (sorry: 26 Messidor 219) – Here’s hoping that all of my former Modern Europe students find themselves humming “La Marseillaise” sometime today, and that the French nation can forgive me for the tongue-in-cheek review of their military history that’ll be posted here tomorrow morning.
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. Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – to Paris Between 1840 and 1914, as many as one million Swedes crossed the Atlantic Ocean to seek economic … More Bennie and Mabel
For the third part of my series on (neo)Anabaptist critiques of Pietism, I’d like to pause, sum up the points of criticism, and invite readers’ responses before moving on. In the first entry in the series, we reviewed Harold Bender’s “Anabaptist Vision” speech, then continued in part 2 with the “Friedmann thesis” promulgated by Robert … More Taking Stock: Anabaptist Critiques of Pietism
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. Monday, January 14, 2013 – The Somme Back on the bus for a brief ride across the Belgium-France border, then we’ll tour sites from … More The War Elsewhere
Now that weather in Minnesota actually resembles July and not March or November, I think I’m finally in the proper mood to ask that overasked question: What to read on one’s summer vacation? The English novelist Andrew Miller — author of the well-received Pure, set in pre-revolutionary Paris — recently shared his list of top … 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 13, 2013 – Ieper No, not the last post in the series. (We’re not quite halfway through.) “Last Post” is a small … More “Last Post”
…the publication by Wipf & Stock of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity (Princeton Theological Monographs Series), edited by Christian Collins Winn, G.W. Carlson, Eric Holst, and myself. You can find it on Amazon, but save yourself some money and go straight to the publisher for a 20% discount. I’m going to start a series in … More I’m Proud to Announce…
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 12, 2013 – from London to Ieper After a week in London, it’s high time we actually saw some of the battlefields … More “What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?”
The Pietist Schoolman 