4/19/12 – Just one day left until Bethel’s Inaugural Colloquium on Pietism Studies. I’ll post a recap here on Friday night or Saturday morning, and I might even take a shot at doing some play-by-play from the colloquium itself tomorrow on Twitter. (Follow me there @cgehrz.) For an appetizer, here’s a January 2012 post on … More Tomorrow’s Colloquium on Pietism Studies
The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: “Do college professors work hard enough?” Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War John Piper: “I think I’m a pietistic Calvinist” Registration Open for the Inaugural Bethel Colloquium on Pietism Studies “The Capital of the Movement” The Best National Anthems: Introduction … More The Big Ten
In the past couple of months, WordPress (the blogging service that hosts The Pietist Schoolman) has introduced some new metrics that help us bloggers better understand how we’re being received. My favorite is a breakdown of the countries where my readers are located. The top four, unsurprisingly, are English-speaking nations: 1. United States (76% of … More Taking Over the World, One Post at a Time…
In which Chris basks in the reflected glory that comes with having been a graduate student of a Pulitzer Prize winner… Lamentably still on my to-be-read-over-the-summer list, Yale historian John Lewis Gaddis’ magisterial biography of American diplomat George Kennan was yesterday named the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography. Called “an engaging … More Congratulations, John Lewis Gaddis!
This semester students in our capstone course, Senior Seminar, are joining me in reading through Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation (University of Notre Dame Press), edited by John Fea, Jay Green, and Eric Miller. As we work through it, I’ll plan to share a few observations, starting today with Miller’s … More Confessing History: Introduction
My wife and I were blessed to be part of a very special wedding yesterday. Among many other memorable elements of the occasion, the New Testament text that our friends chose stood out: Therefore if you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any common sharing in … More “One in spirit and of one mind”
Here • A three-part exploration of the 1940 census records for my grandparents — Peterson, Nelson, and Gehrz (haven’t found Laubscher yet) — shed some light on ethnicity, social mobility, and education in American society coming out of the Great Depression. • As speculation about Mitt Romney’s running mate begins in earnest, a look back … More That Was The Week That Was
4/13/12 – Hot off the press from Wipf & Stock, publisher of our The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, is another book about an “impulse” in Christianity. Edited by Jared S. Burkholder and David C. Cramer, The Activist Impulse: Essays on the Intersection of Evangelicalism and Anabaptism brings together chapters by John Roth, Steven Nolt, John … More The Activist Impulse
In a sure sign that I’m either avoiding grading or preparing for a new episode of The Policast, I spent an hour of my life this week investigating this marginally interesting question: How good are political pundits and reporters at prognosticating the “veep-stakes”? That is, once a nomination for U.S. president is sewn up, how … More Veep-Stakes
In the newest issue of the Baptist Pietist Clarion, I was especially struck by Glen Scorgie‘s article, “Religion of the Heart: The Enduring Value of Pietism,” in which he asks “whether Pietism should still matter to the Baptist General Conference—to Converge Worldwide.” Even beyond that particular denomination, I think it’s a valuable question for several churches … More Glen Scorgie: Why Pietism Still Matters
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