A relatively quiet week for The Pietist Schoolman (grading season, doncha know) was more than offset by some excellent blogging elsewhere. Here I’ve always wanted to write about my favorite punctuation mark — but to get to do that and respond to a New York Times op-ed piece on belief in God at the same … More That Was The Week That Was
More fun with word clouds to get us started this morning: At least when I first came to Bethel, I was most surprised how few students agreed that Christians should seek to CONTROL culture, given the prevalence of “America is” or “America ought to be a Christian nation” rhetoric among some of our students. That … More Christians and Culture
12/14/11 – Earlier this fall I had the honor of being invited to write a brief appreciation of longtime Covenant pastor and editor Jim Hawkinson for the newsletter Pietisten. That piece appears on p. 15 of the Fall/Winter 2011 issue, now available (not online, but you can find out how to get that and earlier … More Article in Pietisten
This summer I devoted a blog post to celebrating the alumni of Bethel’s History and Social Studies programs. Today let me turn the spotlight on a group of our current students: members of the fall section of our capstone course, Senior Seminar, who presented their research papers Monday night. (Apologies to those who subscribe to … More In Celebration of Students
Like I said in my very first post… I’m not exactly an early adopter. But however late to the party this makes me… I am just now getting into word cloud generators! Here’s how I belatedly learned of this toy… In place of a final exam this week in our Christianity and Western Culture class, … More Fun with Word Clouds
Yesterday ended up being an unusually frenetic Sunday in our household. My brother and sister and their families came over to celebrate our twins’ birthday. Before that, we had to clean the house in a hurry — what our mom calls a “white tornado.” Before that, there was waiting at the pharmacy to pick up … More God as Semicolon
A week of questions here at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere in the blogging universe: Here Why do I love Sherlock Holmes, including his newest incarnation on the BBC? What makes Tim Tebow the best story (in sports or otherwise) and the recipient of unsolicited advice from fellow evangelical quarterbacks? Why would the foreign minister … More That Was The Week That Was
About two years ago I was invited to give a talk to our faculty in recognition of having been awarded Bethel’s 2009 Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching. In part one of this (slightly updated) version of the talk, I described my experiences integrating podcasts into two courses and evaluated them in light of the “No … More A Different Significance: Online vs. F2F Education (part 2)
12/8/11 – On this week’s penultimate episode of CWC: The Radio Show… Sara, Amy, and I muddled through in Sam’s absence, discussing Nicholas of Myra, Ambrose of Milan, Darlene Love, and other Advent/Christmas-related topics. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
For a blog called The Pietist Schoolman, there’s been surprisingly little posted here about Pietism in recent weeks. So today I’m starting a new series on the role of Pietism in the history of Bethel University and its parent denomination, the Baptist General Conference (now going by its “missional name”: Converge Worldwide). Rather than give … More Pietism, the BGC, and Bethel University: Virgil Olson
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