It was a week ago tonight that we returned to the States after spending three weeks in Europe, studying the history of World War I with a group of Bethel University students: Near the end of the last day of our #WWI travel course. Couldn't have asked for a better group of @BethelU students! pic.twitter.com/TQY70S4dEq — … More Recapping Our World War I Travel Course
While I wasn’t blogging during my three-week trip to Europe, I did try to keep up with my Feedly, Twitter, and other online reading sources, bookmarking a variety of posts and articles. Enough that I’ll end January with three separate month-wide links wraps, one for each of the three main themes of this blog. We’ll start … More That Was The Month That Was: Education
Despite my being out of the country for three weeks, I’m happy to report that there’s been plenty of activity around The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons. • IVP Academic published a Q&A with me that serves as a brief introduction to key themes of the book. Here’s a sample: What do … More Announcements: What’s New with Our Pietism Book
The blog is going to be quiet for much of the rest of the month, as I’ll be in Europe for three weeks teaching a Bethel University travel course on the history of World War I. It’s my second time teaching this course abroad, and if it’s anything like the first trip, it’ll be memorable. (And this … More How to Follow Our Trip in Europe
1/5/15 – Wondering what to give your true love for the twelfth day of Christmas? How about twelve copies of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons, which is now officially available from IVP Academic!
Precisely because of the tradition’s emphasis on the personal experience of conversion, the subject of our previous post, Pietism is sometimes critiqued for promoting religious individualism (cf. Karl Barth). However, there’s scarcely any chapter in our book that doesn’t emphasize the importance of community for the Pietist vision of Christian higher education. For example, while philosopher David Williams … More Pietist Vision Previews: The Importance of Community
What is the purpose of Christian higher education? There is, of course, no single answer to the question. In any college, or any of its departments or programs, or of their required or elective courses and the individual class sessions that compose them, there are multiple objectives. But running through all of them, in our Pietist vision of Christian higher education, … More Pietist Vision Previews: Education as Conversion
I’m still a bit staggered that scholars as gifted as John Fea, Rhonda and Douglas Jacobsen, John Schmalzbauer, and Amos Yong would think highly enough of our book on Pietism and Christian higher education to endorse it. But my heart was specially warmed that Houghton College president Shirley Mullen focused so much of her endorsement on how the book was written: … More Pietist Vision Previews: “Pietist not just in content but tone”
Copies are already being delivered, but one week from today is the official publication date of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons. The seed of the idea for this book was planted over eight years ago, so it’s beyond exciting finally to hold the book in my hand. But more so, to anticipate … More Pietist Vision Previews: Background
12/19/14 – Word on the street is that preordered copies of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons are starting to arrive in mailboxes! If you’ve got a copy and want to share a photo or a favorite quotation, tweet it to #wholeandholypersons, post it at our Facebook page, or … More Have You Received Your Copy of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Ed Yet?
The Pietist Schoolman 