10/26/12 – Readers interested in Pietism and how that term continues be used in the larger evangelical and Protestant world should read Scot McKnight’s response to Tim Keller‘s argument (in Center Church) that the influence of pietism led 20th century evangelicals to “ignore culture and put all stress on conversions and on the spiritual growth … More Scot McKnight: “After Pietism”
Ten years ago today, Sen. Paul Wellstone (D-MN), his wife Sheila, his daughter Marcia, and five others died when their small plane crashed en route to Eveleth, MN. Running for a third term in the Senate, Wellstone was scheduled to debate Republican challenger Norm Coleman later that night. It was less than two weeks before … More Paul Wellstone: The Conscience of a Liberal (G.W. Carlson)
I know that Godwin’s law pertains to Internet discussions, but perhaps it’s also true that the closer we get to a vote on a contentious issue in the culture wars, “the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches 1.” Take, for example, the state of Minnesota, whose voters will be asked to answer … More For the Last Time, It’s Not a Good Idea to Make Nazi Analogies
I may play the role, but I’m not a historian of Christianity, or any other religion. I edit books, write articles, give papers, and blog about Pietism, and I teach courses on Christianity and Western Culture and The Reformations, but my graduate education was overseen by this guy and this guy; I somehow never took … More Matthew Bowman’s The Mormon People
On Sunday night this blog received its 50,000th visit. Which both got me feeling profoundly grateful to all of those who take the time to read my digital scribbling, and in a mood to reflect on the blog’s founding. The choice of name, for example. As I wrote in an early post, “The Pietist Schoolman” … More The Pietist as a “Catholic Evangelical”
I don’t have all that many memories of the former senator and presidential candidate — I was only five when he was voted out of the Senate in 1980, after three terms representing South Dakota — but as a historian I know enough to find interesting what’s being remembered, and what’s being forgotten, as journalists … More Remembering (and Forgetting) George McGovern
Here • Can blogging be both “public thinking” and “digital scholarship”? • One of the contributors to our Pietist Impulse book was named a “woman to watch” by Christianity Today. (That feature was put together by CT’s excellent online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey, who is moving on to a new job.) • Resources for those … More That Was The Week That Was
The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War Replacing the NFL: A Thought Experiment (with Chris Moore and Sam Mulberry) Close-Minded Christian Colleges? Thoughts from CFH 2012: Tracy McKenzie’s Presidential Address Thoughts from CFH 2012: Saturday Veep-Stakes 4 Things I’ve Learned Teaching … More The Big Ten
Congratulations to Shirley Mullen, president of Houghton College (the first woman to hold that office), for being named one of the “50 Women You Should Know” by Christianity Today in its October 2012 issue. In that article (not yet online just posted by CT), fellow historian Mark Noll writes of Shirley that, “In evangelical higher … More Congratulations, Shirley Mullen!
If a scholar blogs, is it scholarship? When I started this enterprise in the summer of 2011, it never occurred to me to think of blogging as a form of scholarship. “A good way to cultivate the discipline of writing,” to implement the commonplace advice “that the best way to learn writing is to write”? … More Blogging: “Public Thinking” as “Digital Scholarship”?
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