It’s been a long weekend teaching and preaching, but a rewarding, exhilarating one. Thanks again to the people of Bethlehem Covenant Church for making me feel so welcome as the guest speaker for their Winter Seminar! I’m particularly grateful to their senior pastor, Ryan Eikenbary-Barber, for extending the invitation and for being an active participant … More Further Reading on Pietism
Thanks to Brian Gumm for drawing my attention to a recent post by Joshua Brockway, a minister in the Church of the Brethren, considering how the Pietist half of the COB’s heritage contributes a “spiritualist corrective” to its Anabaptist half. As I continue to prepare my comments for this weekend’s seminar, Pious Wishes and Better … More A Pietist-Spiritualist Corrective to Anabaptism
As part of the seminar on Pietism that I’m leading this weekend at Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, I’ll devote an hour or so to my chief area of interest: Pietist models of education. In doing some reading for that talk, I revisited an interesting document from my own denomination‘s history: a working paper from … More Don Frisk on Pietism and Christian Education
One group of Christianity-related links that I left out of my January links recap stemmed from Marcia Pally’s post at The Immanent Frame, about “Evangelicals who have left the right” and are embracing more progressive political positions. While commentators like Sarah Posner have poked legitimate holes in Pally’s case that “where once there was the … More Evangelicalism: A “Global Renewal Movement,” Not an American Political Faction
Today I’ll conclude a brief series of posts clearing out some links I flagged during my January travels. We’ve already covered education and history, leaving the third of the major stated themes of this blog: Christianity. • Rachel Held Evans: “Perhaps in reaction to the ‘scandal of the evangelical mind,’ evangelicalism of late has developed … More That Was The Month That Was: Christianity
Next weekend those of you who live in the Twin Cities can put a voice to the words you’ve read on this blog by coming to Bethlehem Covenant Church in Minneapolis, where I’ll be leading the annual Winter Seminar. In classes Friday night (Feb. 8) and the following morning, then during Bethlehem’s Sunday School hour, … More The Pietist Impulse in the 21st Century
1/10/13 – Officially, I’m still on blogging vacation while I lead our travel course on the history of World War I (though I’ll have a report on our journey thus far on our department blog tomorrow), but I did want to put in a plug for Devin Manzullo-Thomas’ post today, previewing his upcoming article asking … More Pietism and the Brethren in Christ Today
Even two weeks later, I don’t think I have much to say about the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, CT that hasn’t been said already, and better than I could say it. But such tragedies are on my mind today for another reason: this fourth day of Christmas is the same day … More Providence, Irony, and Moral Reflection: Historians Confront Evil
“If I had one wish that I could wish this holiday season,” began comedian Steve Martin in a famous monologue from the Christmas episode of Saturday Night Live in 1991, “it would be for all the children to join hands and sing together in the spirit of harmony and peace. If I had two wishes … More Merry Christmas (just enjoy it!)
Earlier this fall what would have been the 100th birthday of Clarence Jordan was celebrated with a two-day symposium whose participants included former president Jimmy Carter and my recently-retired (down to a mere three classes, from seven) Bethel colleague G.W. Carlson, who provided us with an introduction to Jordan back in August. Fall grades now … More Reflections on the Clarence Jordan Symposium (G.W. Carlson)
The Pietist Schoolman 