As I suggested in my weekly recap last Saturday, I’ve had a hard time convincing myself to write a second post about the man who committed the massacre in Norway last month: Anders Behring Breivik. Intending to analyze his targeting of “cultural Marxists” in addition to Muslims, I attempted to read through parts of Breivik’s … More Norway: “A Christian Fundamentalist”
A quick recap of what was happening at this blog and better ones in the last week. Ici Yes, coming to the end of thinking through my proposal for a travel course on World War I already has me longing for la belle langue of France (and southern Belgium, I guess). In the last four … More That Was the Week That Was
7/29/11 – My family is spending a long weekend attending a wedding in Michigan, so there might not be much posted here until the middle of next week: more previews of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, the conclusion to our series on Anabaptist critiques of Pietism, and perhaps something more on the awful events in … More The Week in Preview
In case you missed any or all of it the first time, here’s an overview of my just-concluded series thinking through a proposal to turn my “January term” course on the history of World War I into a study trip through England, Belgium, France, and Germany. I started with some words of introduction, then continued … More Over There: An Overview
In the first preview of chapters from our new book, The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, I made much of our volume’s affinity for expansive definitions of the “Pietist impulse,” by implication rejecting the “strict constructionist” take that Pietism properly construed was a certain segment of German Lutheranism in the early modern period. So it’s only … More The Pietist Impulse: Germans
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Friday, January 25, 2013 – to Minneapolis-St. Paul This is it: the last day of term; the day we fly home from Munich. I’ve … More Loving War, Seeking Peace
7/27/11 – Peace be to the memory of the Rev. Dr. John R. W. Stott, chief author of the Lausanne Covenant and the most important and widely respected evangelical leader in the world (according to the only man who could challenge him for that title, Billy Graham). I’ll collect several links for my Saturday recap, … More John Stott
When I associate with Pietists, I am convicted of our Anabaptist roots. When I am in a strong Anabaptist milieu, I want to espouse Brethren Pietism. (Dale Brown, 1994) For the fifth post in this series on Anabaptist critiques of Pietism, we hear from Dale Brown and other scholars associated with the Church of the … More Anabaptist AND Pietist
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Thursday, January 24, 2013 – Dachau Tomorrow we’ll hop a plane back to the States, but as a last experience of post-WWI Europe, we’re … More Pretending
This week I’m launching a new series previewing the chapters in our newly released book, The Pietist Impulse in Christianity. Where better to start than with the deceptively simple question, “What is Pietism?” As we point out rather obviously in our editors’ introduction, that question “is not easily answered” (xxi). Some scholars prefer a “strict … More The Pietist Impulse: Definitions
The Pietist Schoolman 