Back after a break and feeling refreshed, it’s our week(end)ly sampler of interesting posts from around the blogosphere: Here… • I offered a sneak peek at the conclusion to our forthcoming book from InterVarsity Press: The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons. Look for a preview of the rest of the … More That Was The Week That Was
I said it this morning on my Pietist Schoolman Facebook page, but it bears repeating for the larger audience that reads the blog itself: Within the evangelical world it’s hard to overstate the importance of this critique of David Barton, coming as it does from the president of the Conference on Faith and History and chair of the History … More Tracy McKenzie on David Barton: “What’s Really at Stake”
It’s not the most significant thing I’ve accomplished in the 2013-2014 academic year, but in terms of things of which I’m most foolishly proud… Well, there’s playing the role of Severus Snape in a Bethel-themed spoof of the Harry Potter movies, and there’s everything else: Watch the whole thing of course, but pay particular attention to what’s … More Just Call Me Alan Rickman
I concluded the second part of this preview of the conclusion to our forthcoming book on Pietism and Christian higher education (IVP, late 2014) with the sentence that provides the essay its title: “…Pietist educators ought to bear one principle in mind: Their mission does not depend on innovations; their mission is innovation.” Explaining what … More The Pietist University in the 21st Century (part 3)
This morning I’ll continue my preview of the conclusion to our forthcoming book, The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons, with a section considering how Pietists might respond to one popular “disruptive innovation” within higher ed. It resolves to the claim that gives the conclusion its title… Decision makers will need … More The Pietist University in the 21st Century (part 2)
I’m currently editing the manuscript for our new book, The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons, due out from InterVarsity Press at the end of the year. Most of the chapters are written by current and former colleagues from Bethel University, but I’m happy to chip in with an introduction and … More The Pietist University in the 21st Century (part 1)
2/23/14 – Between needing to finish editing a manuscript due the end of this week and coping with a minor computing catastrophe, I’m not going to have time to post my usual That Was The Week That Was links wrap this weekend. It’ll be back next Saturday, but in the meantime… I do share quite a few … More No Links This Weekend
Ever since I wrote it in the summer of 2012, one of the “greatest hits” of this blog has been a post asking which countries dominate which Olympic sports. (Clearly the current Olympiad has revived interest: that post made the “Big Ten” for the last month and, as I write this, sits atop the “Top … More Which Country Dominates Which Olympic Sport? (Winter Edition)
The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Why I’m Almost a Lutheran Which Country (and Continent) Dominates Each Olympic Sport? How Well Paid Are Christian College Presidents? The Spread of Technology since 1900 WWI in Classical Music Vote Early and Often: A Bearded Pietist Schoolman? Tolkien, Lewis, and … More The Big Ten
I’m happy to announce that I’ll be speaking at the University of Minnesota’s Rochester campus on Tuesday night, April 22nd as part of the UMR Connects lecture series, free and open to the public. That month the series will focus on “Wars and Conflicts,” so I was invited to give a talk on World War I (this … More Hear Me Speak on WWI Commemoration
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