November 2017 – Page 2 – The Pietist Schoolman

How to Nominate The Pietist Option for a Readers’ Choice Award

November 8, 2017

If you’ve read and enjoyed The Pietist Option, please take a minute to nominate our book for the InterVarsity Press Readers’ Choice Award. Just click through to the link and explain briefly why you think The Pietist Option deserves this recognition. (Note: nominations close at 11:59pm on Sunday, November 12th.) If we receive enough nominations, we’ll move to … More How to Nominate The Pietist Option for a Readers’ Choice Award

“Honor the Emperor”: One Year Later, A Plea to the 81 Percent

November 7, 2017

It promises to be a quiet Election Day for me. The two cities on either side of Roseville are having contentious mayoral races, but Roseville residents have nothing on their ballots but an uncontested school board race and what strikes me as the obvious choice to approve a bond that will allow our aging public … More “Honor the Emperor”: One Year Later, A Plea to the 81 Percent

On Saying Farewell to a Family Farm

November 5, 2017

It was a particularly emotional All Saints’ Sunday for me. Not only did I think of Glen Wiberg as we gathered in the sanctuary where he preached and worshipped for so many years, but I carried a candle in memory of my Grandpa Peterson, just a day after we’d gathered at the family farm to … More On Saying Farewell to a Family Farm

That Was The Week That Was

November 5, 2017

Last week it was all Reformation, all the time here at The Pietist Schoolman: my fame as the cartoon voice of a singing Martin Luther continue to grow; I tweeted my way through the Reformation; I suggested three ways to remember the Reformation on its 500th anniversary; I connected a couple of news stories about Lutheranism … More That Was The Week That Was

Thursday’s Podcast: Sola Scriptura and Christian Unity

November 2, 2017

Is the Protestant principle of sola scriptura antithetical to Christian unity? That’s the argument of Catholic historian Brad Gregory, in his newest book: “Though it liberated evangelicals from the Roman Church, [“scripture alone”] also plunged them into the beginning of an unwanted Protestant pluralism. What lay behind these church-dividing disagreements was the very thing that had launched the Reformation … More Thursday’s Podcast: Sola Scriptura and Christian Unity

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Month: November 2017