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. Tuesday, January 15, 2013 – to Paris Between 1840 and 1914, as many as one million Swedes crossed the Atlantic Ocean to seek economic … More Bennie and Mabel
For the third part of my series on (neo)Anabaptist critiques of Pietism, I’d like to pause, sum up the points of criticism, and invite readers’ responses before moving on. In the first entry in the series, we reviewed Harold Bender’s “Anabaptist Vision” speech, then continued in part 2 with the “Friedmann thesis” promulgated by Robert … More Taking Stock: Anabaptist Critiques of Pietism
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. Monday, January 14, 2013 – The Somme Back on the bus for a brief ride across the Belgium-France border, then we’ll tour sites from … More The War Elsewhere
Now that weather in Minnesota actually resembles July and not March or November, I think I’m finally in the proper mood to ask that overasked question: What to read on one’s summer vacation? The English novelist Andrew Miller — author of the well-received Pure, set in pre-revolutionary Paris — recently shared his list of top … More Beach Reads
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. Sunday, January 13, 2013 – Ieper No, not the last post in the series. (We’re not quite halfway through.) “Last Post” is a small … More “Last Post”
…the publication by Wipf & Stock of The Pietist Impulse in Christianity (Princeton Theological Monographs Series), edited by Christian Collins Winn, G.W. Carlson, Eric Holst, and myself. You can find it on Amazon, but save yourself some money and go straight to the publisher for a 20% discount. I’m going to start a series in … More I’m Proud to Announce…
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. Saturday, January 12, 2013 – from London to Ieper After a week in London, it’s high time we actually saw some of the battlefields … More “What Have We Learned, Charlie Brown?”
Kind of a slow blogging week, what with the long weekend and a heat-induced torpor slowing down us hard-summering intellectuals. But here’s what you might have missed at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere. Here I revealed the Baroque painting that lends a sliver of visual flair to the top of this otherwise text-heavy blog—along the … More That Was the Week That Was
The banner image running across each screen of this blog is cropped from a 1601 painting by the Italian Baroque artist Caravaggio, “Supper at Emmaus.” (Congratulations to Rachel Neiwert for winning yesterday’s challenge!) The story of the risen Jesus’ encounter with the two disciples traveling to Emmaus (Luke 24:13-35) has special meaning for me, in … More Emmaus Education
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 11, 2013 – London For our last day in London, students will be given semi-free rein and set loose to work on … More The Challenge of Commemoration
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