Today I’ll conclude a brief series of posts clearing out some links I flagged during my January travels. We’ve already covered education and history, leaving the third of the major stated themes of this blog: Christianity. • Rachel Held Evans: “Perhaps in reaction to the ‘scandal of the evangelical mind,’ evangelicalism of late has developed … More That Was The Month That Was: Christianity
Yesterday I cleared out some intriguing education-related links I didn’t get a chance to blog about during my three weeks teaching in Europe. Today: history! • It’s both hard and easy to believe that the last president of the American Historical Association not to be a research university professor held office during World War II… … More That Was The Month That Was: History
Having been out of the country and out of my routine for almost all of January, I find myself with more flagged, starred, bookmarked, and otherwise highlighted links than I could possibly list in one Saturday links post. So instead I’ll be putting out three best-of-January posts, each clustered around one of the three stated … More That Was The Month That Was: Education
Next weekend those of you who live in the Twin Cities can put a voice to the words you’ve read on this blog by coming to Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, where I’ll be leading the annual Winter Seminar. In classes Friday night (Feb. 8) and the following morning, then during Bethlehem’s Sunday School hour, … More The Pietist Impulse in the 21st Century
Tomorrow marks the beginning of our spring semester at Bethel, which should officially make me stop thinking about our recently-concluded three-week travel course in England, Belgium, France, and Germany and force me to focus on, oh, writing syllabi for the classes I have to teach. So as a farewell to January’s journeys, a few things … More What I Will and Won’t Miss About Europe
Preach it, Dr. Richard Gunderman! The nation’s 80,000 medical, 20,000 dental, and 180,000 nursing school students might think that lectures are dead, or at least dying. Health professions curricula increasingly feature small-group, interactive teaching, and successive waves of enthusiasm have arisen for laptops, PDAs, and tablet computers as the new paradigms of learning. Commentators frequently … More No, the Lecture Isn’t Dead
Good to be back home after three weeks in Europe teaching about World War I… I’ll be easing back into blogging this week, starting with a post tomorrow soliciting readers’ thoughts about the questions I’ll be asking Feb. 8-10 when I teach the Winter Seminar at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis. Then I’ll stretch out … More Back from Europe!
1/21/13 – Gruss Gott from Munich, where we’re into the last leg of our history of WWI travel course. Over on our department blog I just posted a new update covering our five days in Paris — including a photo of me leading a simulation of the Versailles Peace Conference… in the Hall of Mirrors … More How Ya Going to Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm…
1/14/13 – Greetings from Paris! I hadn’t intended to post a new update on our history of World War I trip until our off day, but having just finished the Western Front leg of our trip today, I just had too many highlights to save until Thursday. You can find my post (with some more … More All Still Quiet on the Western Front…
1/11/13 – If you’d like to read some highlights and see some pictures of our first week studying World War I (in London and Oxford), I posted a summary at our department blog this morning. On to the Western Front!
The Pietist Schoolman 