In place of my usual weekend links wrap, this final Saturday in 2019 I’ll just reveal what was most popular in a busy year: blog posts (here and at The Anxious Bench), podcast episodes, and links I share in That Was The Week That Was. Thanks for reading, listening, and clicking, and have a Happy New Year!
Top 10 Pietist Schoolman Posts in 2019
- Beyond Yes or No: Covenant History and the Third Way (Hauna Ondrey)
- “I paid $120,000… to accept a four-year degree in a language I already spoke“
- Harmony and Liberty in the Covenant Church (Phil Anderson)
- The “Next Chapter” in Christian Liberal Arts Education
- I’m a Pietist
- Another Congregation Leaves the Covenant Church
- The Average Christian College President
- Hoping for Better Times after Omaha
- On Christianity Today Calling for Trump’s Removal from Office
- RIP Kimberly Weaver Olson
Top 10 Anxious Bench Posts in 2019
- The Legacy of Rachel Held Evans (with Kristin Kobes Du Mez and Beth Allison Barr)
- The Sexuality Debate Dividing an Evangelical Denomination
- It’s Not Just Evangelicals: Trump and Mainline Protestantism
- Baptists (and Other Christians) Against Christian Nationalism
- Can Evangelicals Support Religious Freedom and LGBT Rights? (interview with Shirley Hoogstra)
- “Teaching was unrighteous for a girl”: The History of Violence Against Women Preachers
- Red State Christians (interview with Angela Denker)
- The History of Moral Re-Armament
- The Honest Patriotism of Frederick Douglass
- Beyond Red Kettles and Chick-fil-A: Some History of the Salvation Army
Top 5 Podcasts in 2019
- Nothing Rhymes with Gehrz – Old, Coinage, Epiphany, etc.
- The Pietist Schoolman Podcast – Live from Paris
- The 252 – Our Sports Biographies
- The 252 – The Mount Rushmore of Baseball History
- The 252 – The Super Bowl
Top 20 Most-Clicked Links in 2019
- Ruth Graham, “‘I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go to Heaven’” (Slate)
- David Brooks, “The Case for Reparations“(New York Times)
- Lili Wright, “DePauw’s Big Mess On Campus” (Indianapolis Monthly)
- Jennifer Day, “He was hired to teach at Olivet Nazarene University. And then someone read his book” (Chicago Tribune)
- Sarah Eekhoff Zylstra, “Tuition Is Rising and Enrollment Is Holding. So Why Are Christian Colleges Struggling?” (The Gospel Coalition)
- Tish Harrison Warren, “The Church Made Vagina Sculptures Long Before Nadia Bolz-Weber” (Christianity Today)
- Laura Turner, “Sixteen and Evangelical” (Slate)
- Scott Hoezee, “Confessional?” (Reformed Journal)
- Rick Seltzer, “Cuts Spark Fears at Azusa Pacific” (Inside Higher Ed)
- Scott Jaschik, “Another Private College May Close” (Inside Higher Ed)
- William Trollinger, “White Jesus at Westmont College: The Controversy” (Righting America)
- Adelle Banks, “Billy Graham archives to move from Wheaton College to his North Carolina library” (RNS)
- Warren Throckmorton, “Former Liberty University Faculty Member Describes Workplace as ‘Shifty, Dishonorable, Unprincipled, and Hypocritical’“
- John Fea, “Taylor University President Lowell Haines Has Resigned After Serving Three Years” (The Way of Improvement Leads Home)
- Benjamin Perry, “The Problem is Sinful Masculinity, Not Effeminacy” (Sojourners)
- Amy Peterson, “Mike Pence will speak at this evangelical school’s graduation in his home state. Here’s why many are upset” (Washington Post)
- Judy Peterson, “Why I sacrificed my chaplain’s job and my reputation to marry a same-sex couple” (RNS)
- Tegan Hanlon, “Facing $130 million budget cut by Dunleavy, University of Alaska braces for big budget decisions ahead” (Anchorage Daily News)
- John Fea, “Netflix released a new documentary on the secretive religious group ‘The Family.’ Despite its flaws, it’s a must see” (Washington Post)
- David French, “Jerry Falwell Jr. Shows How the Advance of Christendom Can Harm Christianity” (National Review)
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