Here… • Is New Year’s Day a “Christian holiday“? Ecclesiastes, Christian Piatt, and others helped me on this one… • I know I’m living in the past, but hey, I’m a historian: the blogging year in review for 2013. • Looking to the rapidly nearing future: a preview of some themes from the new World … More That Was The Week That Was
“Following Up” is a kind of semi-rerun that I do from time to time: freshening up an older post with just a bit of new content or reflection. This one goes back to late February 2013: If you’re like me, you emerged from the Christmas special that served as the final episode of the third … More Following Up: Downton and Sherlock
It’s hard for me to get too excited about January 1st. I mean, it’s as good an arbitrary point as any to change calendars. So long as we bracket off the fact that — beyond the West — it’s a kind of vestige of colonialism to use that calendar in the first place. So long … More Is New Year’s Day a “Christian Holiday”?
Thanks to everyone who read, commented, and shared this year at The Pietist Schoolman! By most any reckoning, it was a good year at this blog: readership was up over 40% this year, we started a Facebook page, and Jared Burkholder came on board as our regular guest-blogger. Before we enter 2014, a look back … More 2013: That Was The Year That Was
I think it was sometime in the fall of 2003, my first semester teaching at Bethel University, when I blurted out to members of my Modern Europe class something like, “You wouldn’t be interested in a course on the history of World War II, would you?” More than ten years and lots of student requests … More Previewing My New WWII Course
Aside from some Tweeting and Facebook microblogging, I took Christmas week off. But others kept the blogosphere humming… • On Christmas Eve I sang carols about angels and wrote a brief reflection on Twitter and Facebook that concluded with St. Augustine’s famous prayer asking God to “give your angels charge over those who sleep.” But … More That Was The Week That Was
12/26/13 – Over at the Religion in American History blog, Brantley Gasaway was kind enough to draw readers’ attention to my Evangelical Theological Society paper that encouraged an international/transnational turn in the history of evangelicalism. (My paper was a response to David Swartz’s chapter on Latin American evangelicals in Moral Minority; Gasaway interviewed Swartz last … More Brantley Gasaway on My ETS Paper
Looking back over my first two Decembers blogging, I’m surprised how many posts I wrote in the week around Christmas. While I won’t entirely rule out a post here or there (Christmas Eve worship inevitably inspires some reflection, continuing a tradition started by the mother who “treasured all these words and pondered them in her … More Christmas Vacation
Here… • When the week started, did I think that I’d writing about the spiritual implications of birdwatching? No. By Thursday afternoon had I written the phrase “orni-theological musing“? Yes. Blogging is weird. • Jared Burkholder introduced us to the Moravian branch of the Pietist family tree. I’m hoping for a sequel in which he … More That Was The Week That Was
The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: How Well Paid Are Christian College Presidents? The Challenge of Ranking Christian Colleges Why I’m Almost a Lutheran The Global Reflex: An International Historian Appraises David Swartz’s Moral Minority (part 2) How Not To Speak for a Generation: Rachel Held Evans … More The Big Ten
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