Seeing as how I spent part of my Monday post tearing into a Washington Post op-ed piece that vilified small college faculties for the few hours they put into their job, then followed it on Tuesday by spotlighting a couple of articles about the value of the liberal arts, today I’d like to praise another … More The U of M
See, this is why you spend all those hours teaching college students: so that one day they’ll be your Facebook friend and point you in the direction of a tool as interesting as this interactive map from Bloomberg. For each of United States’ 3100+ counties, it lets you see how heavy or light is the … More Mapping the Melting Pot
I try not to post too many posts defending the beleaguered liberal arts from assorted barbarians at their gates. I’m pretty sure my feelings on that model of education are well known, or could be predicted if you just knew my occupation, and the value of the liberal arts seems self-evident to me. But two … More The Liberal Arts: From Minnesota to China
The right time for a college professor like myself to read an op-ed piece asking the question above is not during a short break from a grading session that would end my spring “break” at 1am, five hours before I woke up to take my children to day care and then start a teaching day … More “Do college professors work hard enough?”
Aside from advertising the opening of registration for our April 20 colloquium on Pietism, announcing a new podcast episode, and revealing the most popular posts in the last month, there wasn’t much happening here while I was on spring break. Meanwhile, in other parts of the blogosphere… • One more post on Joseph Kony… Like … More That Was The Week That Was
I’ll be back tomorrow with my usual Saturday links post, then expect more new posts next week as we return from Bethel’s Spring Break. Today, one more reprised post from recent months: my meditation on the mysteries of the Christian sacrament known as Communion, Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, etc. There are few things I understand … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: The Mystery of Communion
One more post about British TV as I continue to reprise some posts from recent months during this mini-hiatus coinciding with Bethel’s Spring Break: my defense of Downton Abbey against withering criticism from one of Britain’s most popular historians. Downton has been back on my mind of late, after my wife and I watched its antecedent, the … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: Downton Crabby
It’s Spring Break here at Bethel University, so I’m going to take a break from blogging the rest of the week in order to focus on some other projects. In the meantime, I’ll reprise some posts I especially enjoyed writing: one each from December 2011, January 2012, and February 2012. First up, my enthusiastic response … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: Sherlock!
The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War We Take Care of Our Own: Standing with John Fea Apolitical Churches “The Capital of the Movement” “Cathedrals of the Modern World” (part 2) Commemorating World War I (part 1) “What If?” The Best … More The Big Ten
3/19/12 – Now available on iTunes U: the newest episode of The Policast, the political affairs podcast I host with my colleagues Chris Moore and Sam Mulberry. Our general theme this time is religion and politics: specifically, models for Christian engagement with (or disengagement from) American politics; the attention (or lack of it) paid to religion by … More On This Episode of The Policast…
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