I’ll be at Bethel’s commencement exercises in an hour, so a relatively short set of links this Saturday morning: Here… • What does it mean to be Midwestern? @jwilson1812 @cgehrz few other regional identities (which are all imagined & constructed) come w/ as many caveats & apologies & self-doubt — Paul Putz (@p_emory) May 21, … More That Was The Week That Was
5/22/15 – Good grief – two weeks in a row of posting a Pietist Schoolman Podcast a day late! But don’t let that discourage you from listening to episode 6 on iTunes and the Christian Humanist website. This time we dive deeper into the meaning of “whole-person education,” talking athletics and academics with Gretchen Hunt and everything from biokinetics to spiritual disciplines with Seth Paradis.
The last episode of The Late Show with David Letterman aired last night — just over twenty-two years and four thousand episodes after I watched its debut in the middle of a hurricane warning, on my first evening as a college student in Virginia. I can’t really improve on all the commentary recognizing the significance of my all-time favorite TV personality to … More What Does It Mean to Be Midwestern? (A Post-Letterman Question)
5/20/15 – For the third year in a row, this afternoon I’ll spend part of my Study Day taking part in West by Midwest, a gathering of Bethel University folks who want to share innovative ideas for teaching and course design. I’ll be reporting on my experience teaching our new Intro to History course as a hybrid, blending face-to-face seminar … More West by Midwest 2015
Offered as a daydream, as by one who trusts rather than knows that the grading will get done and this impossibly busy academic year will reach its end… John Turner, Brigham Young: Pioneer Prophet (Harvard UP, 2012) A big part of my summer reading is simply playing catch up, and I’ve already got a head start on that … More Is It Too Early For a Summer Reading List?
Aside from noting the season finale of our department webisode series (on calling and careers) and the newest episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast (on sciences and visual arts within the liberal arts), the only new post at this blog was an overview of four key findings from the new Pew survey on this country’s changing religious landscape. … More That Was The Week That Was
5/15/15 – Yes, I know it’s actually Friday night, but episode 5 of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast went up yesterday on iTunes and the Christian Humanist website. In addition to physicist Dick Peterson talking about his chapter in our book, we expanded our conversation of Christian higher ed to the visual arts, thanks to artist Ken Steinbach.
5/13/15 – We’ve saved one of the best episodes of Past & Presence for last. Not only do we take a road trip to Duluth, MN — with a stop at a former fur trading post and a discussion of one of the worst disasters in Minnesota history along the way — but we close with one of … More Past and Presence: Careers and Vocation
Well, this should give bloggers plenty of material for a few months: the Pew Research Center has released preliminary findings from the 2014 U.S. Religious Landscape Study, based primarily on a national survey of over 35,000 adults. This comes seven years after the first such study and points to some important trends — and at least a … More Four Key Findings in the New Pew Survey of America’s Changing Religious Landscape
Here… • Should non-theologians like Rachel Held Evans and me be doing theology? • All readers interested in Pietism beyond 17th century Germany need to check out Mark Safstrom’s new translations of C. O. Rosenius and P. P. Waldenström. • Some more in this vein: the newest issue of a periodical written by the Baptist descendants of … More That Was The Week That Was
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