The Big Ten

The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: What If? Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War Emmaus Education The Vocation of a Christian Historian: Calling and Callings What I Will and Won’t Miss About Europe The Spread of Technology since 1900 Which Country (and Continent) Dominates Each Olympic … More The Big Ten

The Vocation of a Christian Historian: Calling and Callings

I’m up for promotion this year, and so had to write a lengthy faith-learning integration essay describing how I “[bring] the perspective of a Christian worldview to bear on scholarship and teaching” and reflecting an “increasing maturity in one’s discipline and faith….” I don’t intend to publish the entire (thirty-page) thing here, but I did … More The Vocation of a Christian Historian: Calling and Callings

Best of The Pietist Schoolman: An Imposition

I wrote this last year after our church’s Ash Wednesday service, which concludes with the “imposition” of ashes. My daughter is three now, otherwise I think most everything here applies in 2013 as much as it did in 2012… It’s amazing sometimes that anyone can learn English. Look up the word “imposition” in Webster’s, for … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: An Imposition

That Was The Day That Was: Pope Benedict’s Resignation

Yesterday’s surprising announcement that Pope Benedict XVI would resign at the end of this month inspired all sorts of commentary. Rather than try to make room for it all in my standard “That Was The Week That Was” links post on Saturday, we’ll give some of those links their own post: • Washington Post foreign … More That Was The Day That Was: Pope Benedict’s Resignation

“Listen to Him!”: A Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday

The sermon I preached yesterday (Feb. 10, 2013) as the conclusion of the Winter Seminar on Pietism at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Our text was Luke 9:28-45. (You can listen to the sermon at Bethlehem’s website.) “Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.” (We’re … More “Listen to Him!”: A Sermon for Transfiguration Sunday