Author: Chris Gehrz

Christian Collins Winn

Pietism and Civil Discourse (Christian Collins Winn)

August 28, 2012

I’m very pleased to welcome this guest post from my colleague Christian Collins Winn: the text of his address yesterday morning in Bethel University‘s year-opening chapel service, in which he appealed to Bethel’s roots in Pietism to help us start a year-long conversation about what church historian Martin Marty has called “convicted civility.” Christian is … More Pietism and Civil Discourse (Christian Collins Winn)

Victory Memorial Drive in Minneapolis

Commemorating WWI in Minnesota: Victory Memorial Drive

August 24, 2012

In the first part of this series on how the First World War has been commemorated in my home state, I suggested that a “celebratory, self-righteous, unproblematically patriotic mood” inspired the commission and design of Duluth’s Soldiers and Sailors Monument. But you don’t think that Minnesota’s largest city would let its northern neighbor corner the … More Commemorating WWI in Minnesota: Victory Memorial Drive

McCullough, John Adams

Who Owns History?

August 22, 2012

I’m a PhD-holding history professor myself who will likely never write any book with sales approaching even quadruple figures, but I cringe when fellow guild-members like Louisiana State University professors Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg write things like the following, in Salon this past Sunday: Frankly, we in the history business wish we could take out … More Who Owns History?

CFH Program

August 21, 2012

8/21/12 – Only time for a brief post today, as I’ve been busy with Bethel’s pre-semester faculty retreat… The Conference on Faith and History released the program for its biennial conference, held this October 4-6 at Gordon College in Boston. That Saturday morning I’ll join Jared Burkholder and Kurt Peterson on a panel about Pietism … More CFH Program

Dakota Internees at Fort Snelling

“All have sinned”: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

August 20, 2012

Last Friday I decided to put syllabus revision on hold and spend an afternoon continuing my tour of World War I commemoration in the Twin Cities by visiting Fort Snelling, the nearly 200-year old former military installation at the convergence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers that trained officers, processed recruits and draftees, and housed … More “All have sinned”: The U.S.-Dakota War of 1862

Table Tennis at the 2012 Olympics

The Big Ten

August 20, 2012

The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Which Country (and Continent) Dominates Each Olympic Sport? In Celebration of Students Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War Olympic Records Over Time The Best National Anthems: Also-Rans The Best National Anthems: Honorable Mentions Evangelicals and Dominion (part 1) Why Are … More The Big Ten

Old Main at Gustavus Adolphus College

Student Politics at Church-Related Colleges and Universities

August 16, 2012

On Wednesday I noted that the new Newsweek/Daily Beast college rankings included a dozen members of the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities on their list of the Top 25 Most [Politically] Conservative schools (referring to the student bodies and not to faculty, staff, administrators, curriculum, assigned readings, guest speakers, etc., though all that might … More Student Politics at Church-Related Colleges and Universities