Year One of The Pietist Schoolman concludes today. 365 days, 420+ posts, about 33,000 views, and nearly 12,000 spam comments after that first post, I’m struck that blogging has indeed helped with the three things I hoped to accomplish: to get some feedback (though I’d love to have more comments, the cliché that “1% of … More One Year of The Pietist Schoolman
5/24/12 – After a two-month break while my co-host Chris Moore and his wife Stacy welcomed their first child, a new episode of The Policast is now available on iTunes U. The Policast is a political affairs podcast that we’ve produced occasionally this spring and to which we’ll return in a more regular fashion as the presidential and … More On This Episode of The Policast…
5/14/12 – If you weren’t able to attend the Inaugural Bethel Colloquium on Pietism Studies last month, you can now listen to the three main sessions on iTunes U! The talks by Scot McKnight and Jon Sensbach, plus the roundtable discussion of Pietism in churches today, are all available for free download in podcast format. … More Pietism Colloquium on iTunes U
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…
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…
Today marks the official premiere of the second season of The Policast, a political affairs podcast I help co-host. Episodes are available from iTunes U, where you can download individual episodes or subscribe to get new installments as they’re produced. (If you don’t have the iTunes software, you can download it for free.) We first … More The Return of The Policast!
I happen to agree almost entirely with John’s column, but that’s irrelevant. Even if I didn’t share some of his disappointment in Obama the president vs. Obama the candidate, or if I didn’t think that Obama was unusually explicit about his faith by contrast with most of his predecessors in the White House, I’d still … More We Take Care of Our Own: Standing with John Fea
Key moments on my agenda for this particular workday: 7:45am – Drop off our twins (each suffering from an advanced case of being “terrible” two years old) at day care. Say quick prayer for their teachers. 9:00am – Deliver lecture in 100-level Western Civ course on post-exilic Judaism and its interactions with Hellenistic culture and … More The Dabbler
About two years ago I was invited to give a talk to our faculty in recognition of having been awarded Bethel’s 2009 Faculty Excellence Award for Teaching. In part one of this (slightly updated) version of the talk, I described my experiences integrating podcasts into two courses and evaluated them in light of the “No … More A Different Significance: Online vs. F2F Education (part 2)
12/8/11 – On this week’s penultimate episode of CWC: The Radio Show… Sara, Amy, and I muddled through in Sam’s absence, discussing Nicholas of Myra, Ambrose of Milan, Darlene Love, and other Advent/Christmas-related topics. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
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