A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Tuesday, January 8, 2013 – London Our initial burst of museum-touring will conclude today with a pair of brief introductions to European art ca. … More Nevinson’s War
I don’t know quite what to feel on the 4th of July. On the one hand, I’m a sucker for Americana. We’re spending the holiday with my wife’s family, in a small farming town in Iowa. We’ll dress our kids in red, white, and blue, grab a seat on the curb of Main Street to … More Pledging Allegiance
In case you missed them, a few of the nuggets found at this blog and others in the past week: Here The first five days of my proposed World War I travel course had us imaginatively immersing ourselves in American history, contrasting pilgrimage with tourism while we jetted to London, identifying the four best movies … More That Was the Week That Was
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Monday, January 7, 2013 – London Well, I’ve put it off as long as I can: try as I might to argue that this … More The First War Documentary
Now that our series on teaching the history of World War I in Europe (“Over There”) is well underway, I’m starting a new (though somewhat less frequently updated) series stemming from my research into Pietism and higher education, in which we consider some significant (neo)Anabaptist critiques of Pietism. Growing up in suburban evangelical churches, I … More The Anabaptist Vision
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Sunday, January 6, 2013 – London Why must all experience be systematized? A museum is not a first-hand contact: it is an illustrated lecture. … More Suffrage, Empire, and Strikes
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Saturday, January 5, 2013 – arriving in London This will be a quiet day for the group, so I’m going to stretch the theme … More Great Films about the Great War
I’m in Colorado today (6/29/11) through Friday, serving as a delegate to the annual meeting of the Evangelical Covenant Church. Worship on Wednesday and Thursday (AM + PM) will be streaming live.
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Friday, January 4, 2013 – flying from Minneapolis-St. Paul to London On Day 2 (well, that evening and into the morning of day 3, … More Travel and Sojourning
This actually came out a week before this blog started, so I didn’t include it in my links wrap-up yesterday, but check out this brief essay from Matt Jenson recommending Michelle Clifton-Soderstrom’s short book, Angels, Worms, and Bogeys: The Christian Ethic of Pietism. Agreeing with Clifton-Soderstrom that (Hallensian) Pietists were not world-denying moralizers, Jenson concludes, … More What Pietism Is Good For
The Pietist Schoolman 