Tomorrow’s Colloquium on Pietism Studies

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 Big Ten

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

Taking Over the World, One Post at a Time…

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…

Congratulations, John Lewis Gaddis!

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!

The Activist Impulse

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

Veep-Stakes

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

Glen Scorgie: Why Pietism Still Matters

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