Kind of a slow blogging week, what with the long weekend and a heat-induced torpor slowing down us hard-summering intellectuals. But here’s what you might have missed at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere. Here I revealed the Baroque painting that lends a sliver of visual flair to the top of this otherwise text-heavy blog—along the … More That Was the Week That Was
The banner image running across each screen of this blog is cropped from a 1601 painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio, “Supper at Emmaus.” (Congratulations to Rachel Neiwert for winning yesterday’s challenge!) The story of the risen Jesus’ encounter with the two disciples traveling to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35) has special meaning for me, in … More Emmaus Education
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 11, 2013 – London For our last day in London, students will be given semi-free rein and set loose to work on … More The Challenge of Commemoration
Anyone recognize the painting that’s been cropped to produce the image running along the header of this blog? I’ll reveal it tomorrow in a new post on Pietism and education. (UPDATE, 7/8: Click on the link to learn the answer.)
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 10, 2013 – Oxford Already in this series, I’ve singled out several excellent movies that meditate on the First World War. Another … More Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War
7/6/11 – I’ll have my own appreciation to post later in the summer, but for now, I’d encourage anyone who knew or simply knew of Jim Hawkinson to read the July 2011 issue of The Covenant Companion. If you don’t subscribe, you can find him remembered in pieces by Jane Swanson-Nystrom (who quotes Jay Phelan … More Jim Hawkinson
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 9, 2013 – London …God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it he rested from all the work … More Sing! Sing! Sing!
Part two of my new series on (neo)Anabaptist critiques of Pietism. See the first entry, on Harold Bender’s “Anabaptist Vision” here. Pietism in the larger sense is a quiet conventicle-Christianity which is primarily concerned with the inner experience of salvation and only secondarily with the expression of love toward the brotherhood, and not at all … More The Friedmann Thesis
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 8, 2013 – London Our initial burst of museum-touring will conclude today with a pair of brief introductions to European art ca. … More Nevinson’s War
I don’t know quite what to feel on the 4th of July. On the one hand, I’m a sucker for Americana. We’re spending the holiday with my wife’s family, in a small farming town in Iowa. We’ll dress our kids in red, white, and blue, grab a seat on the curb of Main Street to … More Pledging Allegiance
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