Pietism Studies Group on Twitter
February 13, 2013
2/13/13 – Move over, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, and, um, Mr. President… A new contender’s ready to make a meteoric rise into the top five of Twitter accounts: the Pietism Studies Group!
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Best of The Pietist Schoolman: An Imposition
February 13, 2013
I wrote this last year after our church’s Ash Wednesday service, which concludes with the “imposition” of ashes. My daughter is three now, otherwise I think most everything here applies in 2013 as much as it did in 2012… It’s amazing sometimes that anyone can learn English. Look up the word “imposition” in Webster’s, for … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: An Imposition
That Was The Day That Was: Pope Benedict’s Resignation
February 12, 2013
Yesterday’s surprising announcement that Pope Benedict XVI would resign at the end of this month inspired all sorts of commentary. Rather than try to make room for it all in my standard “That Was The Week That Was” links post on Saturday, we’ll give some of those links their own post: • Washington Post foreign … More That Was The Day That Was: Pope Benedict’s Resignation
“Listen to Him!”: A Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday
February 11, 2013
The sermon I preached yesterday (Feb. 10, 2013) as the conclusion of the Winter Seminar on Pietism at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our text was Luke 9:28-45. (You can listen to the sermon at Bethlehem’s website.) “Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” (We’re … More “Listen to Him!”: A Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday
Further Reading on Pietism
February 10, 2013
It’s been a long weekend teaching and preaching, but a rewarding, exhilarating one. Thanks again to the people of Bethlehem Covenant Church for making me feel so welcome as the guest speaker for their Winter Seminar! I’m particularly grateful to their senior pastor, Ryan Eikenbary-Barber, for extending the invitation and for being an active participant … More Further Reading on Pietism
That Was The Week That Was
February 9, 2013
Here… • The Winter Seminar at Bethlehem Covenant will continue later this morning after getting off to a great start last night. In preparation for it, I shared a couple of posts on Pietism: one on Covenant theologian Don Frisk’s attempt to apply Pietist principles to Christian education; the other on a Church of the … More That Was The Week That Was
A Pietist-Spiritualist Corrective to Anabaptism
February 7, 2013
Thanks to Brian Gumm for drawing my attention to a recent post by Joshua Brockway, a minister in the Church of the Brethren, considering how the Pietist half of the COB’s heritage contributes a “spiritualist corrective” to its Anabaptist half. As I continue to prepare my comments for this weekend’s seminar, Pious Wishes and Better … More A Pietist-Spiritualist Corrective to Anabaptism
Don Frisk on Pietism and Christian Education
February 6, 2013
As part of the seminar on Pietism that I’m leading this weekend at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, I’ll devote an hour or so to my chief area of interest: Pietist models of education. In doing some reading for that talk, I revisited an interesting document from my own denomination‘s history: a working paper from … More Don Frisk on Pietism and Christian Education
What Our Students Thought of the WWI Trip
February 5, 2013
2/5/13 – Last month I posted a few reflections from Europe while we were teaching our three-week travel course on the history of World War I (and I’ll probably have some more thoughts to share later this month), but some of you might also be interested to read what our students thought. We passed along … More What Our Students Thought of the WWI Trip
Evangelicalism: A “Global Renewal Movement,” Not an American Political Faction
February 5, 2013
One group of Christianity-related links that I left out of my January links recap stemmed from Marcia Pally’s post at The Immanent Frame, about “Evangelicals who have left the right” and are embracing more progressive political positions. While commentators like Sarah Posner have poked legitimate holes in Pally’s case that “where once there was the … More Evangelicalism: A “Global Renewal Movement,” Not an American Political Faction
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