7/31/13 – Glad to see my colleague Chris Armstrong return to blogging after taking some time to focus on leading Bethel’s Work with Purpose initiative. (Look for a new Patheos channel on faith and work from Chris and team, later this year.) He started off by sharing a couple of passages from the current draft … More Welcome Back, Chris Armstrong
If you’re not a member of the American Historical Association (AHA), you might not have heard that our guild is in the middle of a fracas heated enough to have generated its own hashtag: #AHAgate. Or perhaps you have, since it attracted the attention of the New York Times on Monday. Quick version: nine days … More The Underquestioned Assumption at the Heart of #AHAgate
Just over 6000 American soldiers are buried outside the French village of Fère-en-Tardenois, at Oise-Aisne Cemetery. The most famous was killed by a German sniper ninety-five years ago today: a sergeant in the New York National Guard named Joyce Kilmer. So we were informed by the cemetery superintendent when our group visited Oise-Aisne last January … More “I think that I shall never see…”: Joyce Kilmer as War Poet
I just note an odd creeping "New York-centrism" amongst some Christians invested in "cultural engagement." — James K.A. Smith (@james_ka_smith) July 26, 2013 Are evangelicals committed to engaging with culture too focused on New York City? Like the first person to respond to Jamie Smith’s tweet noting “an odd creeping ‘New York-centrism,’” I immediately thought … More “New York-centrism” in Evangelical Cultural Engagement
Here… • Pride and Prejudice, going strong after 200 years. • Re: my post on the music of Monty Python… Did I mention that I was such a devoted fan in high school that I convinced a group of friends to come over to the house for a marathon viewing party that took us through … More That Was The Week That Was
7/25/13 – You’ll find two new blogs listed on my Recommended Links page, both by friends of mine who are gifted writers with an apparent aversion to capital letters. Mark Bruce teaches medieval literature here at Bethel, but he promises that he’ll explore other topics at surfingedges, starting off with Jesus’ parable of the Good … More Two New Blogs by Friends
I grieve to report that America’s latest bout of Anglophilia has infected this corner of the blogosphere. Perhaps one post on Monty Python (one-sixth American, and that fraction hailing from the niftiest of the fifty states) can be dismissed, but even as we Colonials rejoice at the birth of a new heir, I find myself … More Pride and Prejudice at 200
It’s been almost a year — let’s resume my series blogging alphabetically through a selection of some of my favorite albums. There was a time when the album was as much the dominion of comedians as musicians. Jokesmiths won two of the first five Album of the Year awards at the Grammys: Bob Newhart in … More Albums A to Z: Monty Python Sings
The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Gregory Thornbury Named President of The King’s College Christians, Patriotism, and Nationalism How Financially Sustainable Are Christian Colleges? Why Are There No Holidays in August? Will D. Campbell: A Radical Baptist Peacemaker (G.W. Carlson) – part 1 The Spread of Technology … More The Big Ten
Today The Chronicle of Higher Education published the results of its sixth annual Great Colleges to Work For survey. I don’t want to make too much of any college ranking system (this year, I mean — did plenty of it in 2012…), let alone one in which only 300 colleges and universities took part. But … More Great (Christian) Colleges to Work For 2013
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