10/27/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… Amy, Sara, Sam, and I discuss Halloween costumes for kids and adults, compare ourselves to Friday Night Lights characters, evaluate Renaissance views of humanity, and launch Sara’s one-issue presidential candidacy. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the … More This Week on CWC: The Radio Show
Today I’ll wrap up my series on Carolyn Weber’s lovely memoir, Surprised by Oxford, with a relatively short post (short, at least, in terms of material I’ll cover from the book itself). Now, when I last I blogged about this memoir, I went on at some length about the story of Weber’s conversion to Christianity … More Surprised by Oxford: Eastertide and After
In the last two weeks of my Modern Europe course, we’ve twice run headlong into the hardest question historians ask: Why? First, I had my students read The Dynamite Club, John Merriman’s account of Émile Henry, a young French anarchist who threw a bomb into a crowded Paris café in 1894 — thereby, in John’s … More Terror, Secularization, and “Imaginative Understanding”
It’s a pretty uninteresting “week in history,” so I’m going to let that feature take some time off and come back reinvigorated next week. But one event this day in history prompted some reflection: October 24, 1945 – The United Nations comes into being When the five members of the Security Council (USSR, US, Britain, … More This Day in History: Peace vs. Justice
What you might have missed in the last seven days here at The Pietist Schoolman or elsewhere on interesting blogs, op-ed pages, etc. Here Celebrating some free advertising for our Pietist Impulse book! My attempts to venture into biblical studies and the history of rhetoric: when did Micah 6:8 become the social justice verse, and … More That Was the Week That Was
10/21/11 – Start your Christmas shopping early and order The Pietist Impulse in Christianity, now available for Kindle!
10/20/11 – Back after a brief hiatus, this week on CWC: The Radio Show… Amy, Sara, Sam, and I discuss the educational value of crisis, remaking ’80s sitcoms, the suburbs, God’s judgments, and IKEA. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
Here are the ten most popular posts in the past month here at The Pietist Schoolman: Tolkien, Lewis, and the Memory of War The Usable Past: Pietism and Bethel University “The Right Kind of Peace” Does Your Church Value Church History? Radio Kings: The Jayhawks Nevinson’s War The First War Documentary “The Capital of the … More The Big Ten
10/19/11 – Every month Christianity Today, the leading evangelical magazine in this country, features a set of mini-book reviews by John Wilson, editor of CT’s awesome sister publication, Books and Culture. Now, I would have been happy just to know that John Wilson knew of our book, let alone read it. But to our utter … More The Pietist Impulse Hits the Big Time
He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8, TNIV) Let me say right off the bat: I believe Christians ought to seek social justice. We follow a Savior who opened … More Micah 6:8 in Christian Rhetoric
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