I’ll be back tomorrow with my usual Saturday links post, then expect more new posts next week as we return from Bethel’s Spring Break. Today, one more reprised post from recent months: my meditation on the mysteries of the Christian sacrament known as Communion, Eucharist, the Lord’s Supper, etc. There are few things I understand … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: The Mystery of Communion
One more post about British TV as I continue to reprise some posts from recent months during this mini-hiatus coinciding with Bethel’s Spring Break: my defense of Downton Abbey against withering criticism from one of Britain’s most popular historians. Downton has been back on my mind of late, after my wife and I watched its antecedent, the … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: Downton Crabby
It’s Spring Break here at Bethel University, so I’m going to take a break from blogging the rest of the week in order to focus on some other projects. In the meantime, I’ll reprise some posts I especially enjoyed writing: one each from December 2011, January 2012, and February 2012. First up, my enthusiastic response … More Best of The Pietist Schoolman: Sherlock!
The ten most popular posts in the last month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War We Take Care of Our Own: Standing with John Fea Apolitical Churches “The Capital of the Movement” “Cathedrals of the Modern World” (part 2) Commemorating World War I (part 1) “What If?” The Best … More The Big Ten
3/19/12 – Now available on iTunes U: the newest episode of The Policast, the political affairs podcast I host with my colleagues Chris Moore and Sam Mulberry. Our general theme this time is religion and politics: specifically, models for Christian engagement with (or disengagement from) American politics; the attention (or lack of it) paid to religion by … More On This Episode of The Policast…
I’ve mentioned pieces of this since after Christmas and there’s a count-down widget on this blog’s home page, but let today’s post serve as a more official announcement: On Friday, April 20, 2012, Bethel University will host its inaugural Colloquium on Pietism Studies. This coming about three years after we hosted a Lilly Research Conference … More Registration Open for the Inaugural Bethel Colloquium on Pietism Studies
Here I wrote about the “Kony 2012” controversy and how it was covered by different types of media before this news about the new Invisible Children film director broke… I don’t think Jason Russell’s behavior or arrest would change my reaction. Part two of my spiritual travelogue found me reflecting on my college/grad school years, … More That Was The Week That Was
Today I’ll continue my recollection of the churches that I’ve called home over the years. (See part 1 here.) While the congregations of my childhood and adolescence in the Twin Cities were all members of the Evangelical Covenant Church, deciding to attend the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia meant that I didn’t … More My Churches: A Spiritual Travelogue (part 2)
CAESAR: The ides of March are come. SOOTHSAYER: Ay, Caesar; but not gone. Happy March 15th, everyone! But especially my friend Brook, who celebrates his birthday on the ides of March, and my brother Jon and his wife Michelle, marking their 10th anniversary today. All of which has me thinking that perhaps we’ve let one … More This Day in History: The Ides of March
There are few people in the history of the world whom I respect more than the late Dietrich Bonhoeffer. But even he was bound to be very, very wrong about something: Because it is bound wholly to the Word, the singing of the congregation, especially of the family congregation, is essentially singing in unison. Here … More Live (and Sing) in Harmony with One Another
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