Here are the ten most popular posts in the past month here at The Pietist Schoolman: “You say pietism, I say Pietism” Evangelicals and “Dominion” (part 1) Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War “The Capital of the Movement” “The Right Kind of Peace” The Pietist Impulse: Modernity The Pietist Impulse: Germans My Four Favorite … More The Big Ten
One of the statistics provided every day by WordPress (the service that hosts this blog) is a list of “referrers,” websites that blog visitors click on to get to your blog. 90% of the referrers for this blog are sites like Facebook, Twitter, Google Reader, and WordPress itself. Most visitors have been here before and … More Fun with Googling
Your music fills my car Your voice breaks every time I’m still wonderin’ If I know who you are I hang on every line One day near the end of my time at the College of William and Mary, I tagged along with my friends Mark and Vicki to do some music shopping in Norfolk, … More Radio Kings: The Jayhawks
September 19, 1945 – “Lord Haw Haw” is sentenced to death One of the courses I teach at Bethel University is the capstone of our major program, Senior Seminar, in which students spend the spring semester conducting original research on a topic of their choosing, produce an article-length paper, and close the year by giving … More This Week in History
What you might have missed this week, here and elsewhere: Here Why Pietism may have been an obstacle to the development of higher education in some American Christian traditions, plus one exception. Three stories of Africans who led revivals in the 20th century. The problematic legacy of “muscular Christianity,” plus contemporary Christian ambivalence about athletic … More That Was the Week That Was
9/16/11 – Coming up next week here at The Pietist Schoolman… Pietism in the history of Bethel University, Christian responses to apartheid and Idi Amin, the return of one of my favorite bands, and having some fun with Google searches.
Today we continue to consider why, for most historians and leaders of colleges and universities founded by Pietist denominations, Pietism seems not to provide a “usable past,” a living history capable of sustaining a distinctive mission and identity. In the first part of this post, I suggested, first, that this might be a byproduct of … More The Unusable Past: Pietism and Christian Colleges (part 2)
9/15/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… We celebrate pumpkin lattes, teach Sam how to cheer, ask what Plato has to do with Christ, hear music from the Black Hills, and share memories of 9/11 and reactions to the commemoration of its 10th anniversary. Get episodes here, or click on the … More This Week on CWC: The Radio Show
As we continue in this series blogging through Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom’s Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia (InterVarsity Press), we’ll start to consider just how Christianity grew so dramatically in 20th century Africa. Today the stories of three Africans who led different sorts of revivals: William Wadé Harris, Simeon Nsibambi, … More Clouds of Witnesses: Revivals in Africa
9/14/11 – Sometime yesterday afternoon we reached a landmark here at The Pietist Schoolman: the 5000th page view. (And only half from family members!) Recognizing on the one hand that there are blogs with that many views per hour, and on the other that I’m fortunate to find even one person interested in what I think … More 5000!
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