8/1/12 – Earlier today Jim Rohrer became the first Pietist Schoolman reader to write a guest post. If you’d like to follow his lead, I’d certainly welcome proposals related to any of the main themes of this blog: Christianity (especially Pietism and my particular wing of that tradition, the Evangelical Covenant Church), History (book/film/museum reviews), … More Guest Blogging at The Pietist Schoolman
Today I’m pleased to present the first guest post in the thirteen-month history of this blog, by Jim Rohrer (PhD, U. Michigan), a professor at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. A longtime reader and commenter here at The Pietist Schoolman, Jim holds a master’s in sacred theology and leads senior worship services six times … More Pietism: Interdenominational, Nondenominational, or Anti-denominational? (Jim Rohrer)
In 1952 an African-American man named Eugene Allen joined the White House staff as a “pantry man,” washing dishes, stocking cabinets, and shining silverware for $2400 a year. Thirty-four years later, he retired as the Head Butler of the most famous residence in the United States, having served under Presidents Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, (LB) Johnson, … More Casting a Movie with Thirty Years of Presidential History
I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. So said American publisher John Bartlett of his most famous work, a compendium of quotations that is still in print today. While later editors went far beyond the founder’s favorite sources (the Bible and Shakespeare) … More Democratizing Bartlett’s: What Kindle Readers Highlight
Earlier this year, according to one study, the smart phone reached an important milestone: 50% market penetration in the United States. It’s a remarkably quick ascent, but just how remarkable? I’m no historian of technology, but Atlantic editor Alexis Madrigal (author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology) recently looked at a … More The Spread of Technology since 1900
Here • I liked Lauren Winner’s use of a pie social as a metaphor for the Church, though I Midwestern-ized it into a potluck supper. • Trying hard not to pile on Penn State after the NCAA sanctions that were announced Monday, I tried to make the case for sports playing an integral role in … More That Was The Week That Was
As an Olympics junkie, I was pretty thrilled to see this interactive feature from Slate making the rounds yesterday. For the men’s and women’s competitions in four Olympic events (100m dash, discus, long jump, 100m freestyle swim) it lines up eight gold medalists going back through time and animates their performances. So, for example, you … More Olympic Records Over Time
Today: a second reflection inspired by Lauren Winner’s Still: Notes on a Mid-Faith Crisis. Read the first here. As you might guess from the title, Lauren Winner spends plenty of time alone with her thoughts in Still, but it doesn’t usually take more than a page or two before a relative or friend or pastor … More Reflections on Lauren Winner’s Still: The Potluck Church
With the Summer Olympics about to start, there’s been some attention paid to the last Olympiad hosted by London: the 1948 summer games, which took place in a country still subject to rationing and other austerity measures, experiencing the beginning of the end of history’s greatest empire, and nervously watching Cold War tensions heat up … More Mussolini’s World’s Fair
Only two posts ago in this series, I said that I owned only two 1980s albums that were popular: Bruce Springsteen’s Born in the U.S.A. and Tom Petty’s solo album, Full Moon Fever. Oh, and one of the 25+ million copies of The Joshua Tree that have been sold worldwide. U2, The Joshua Tree How’d … More Albums A to Z: The Joshua Tree
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