2/19/13 – If you’re part of the Bethel University community or live in the Twin Cities area… I have a pair of presentations coming up (both at the Bethel Library on Thursday mornings). First, my colleague Sam Mulberry and I will be joined by two of our students to share photos, videos, and reflections on … More Bethel Library Presentations
At some point in the history of this blog, I think I’ve had at least one post about every course that I teach — with one exception: I’ve said little about my upper-division course on the history of the Cold War, for the simple reason that I haven’t taught it since May 2011, and this … More Teaching the Cold War
I’m up for promotion this year, and so had to write a lengthy faith-learning integration essay describing how I “[bring] the perspective of a Christian worldview to bear on scholarship and teaching” and reflecting an “increasing maturity in one’s discipline and faith….” I don’t intend to publish the entire (thirty-page) thing here, but I did … More The Vocation of a Christian Historian: Calling and Callings
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
2/5/13 – Last month I posted a few reflections from Europe while we were teaching our three-week travel course on the history of World War I (and I’ll probably have some more thoughts to share later this month), but some of you might also be interested to read what our students thought. We passed along … More What Our Students Thought of the WWI Trip
Having been out of the country and out of my routine for almost all of January, I find myself with more flagged, starred, bookmarked, and otherwise highlighted links than I could possibly list in one Saturday links post. So instead I’ll be putting out three best-of-January posts, each clustered around one of the three stated … More That Was The Month That Was: Education
Preach it, Dr. Richard Gunderman! The nation’s 80,000 medical, 20,000 dental, and 180,000 nursing school students might think that lectures are dead, or at least dying. Health professions curricula increasingly feature small-group, interactive teaching, and successive waves of enthusiasm have arisen for laptops, PDAs, and tablet computers as the new paradigms of learning. Commentators frequently … More No, the Lecture Isn’t Dead
1/21/13 – Gruss Gott from Munich, where we’re into the last leg of our history of WWI travel course. Over on our department blog I just posted a new update covering our five days in Paris — including a photo of me leading a simulation of the Versailles Peace Conference… in the Hall of Mirrors … More How Ya Going to Keep ‘Em Down on the Farm…
1/14/13 – Greetings from Paris! I hadn’t intended to post a new update on our history of World War I trip until our off day, but having just finished the Western Front leg of our trip today, I just had too many highlights to save until Thursday. You can find my post (with some more … More All Still Quiet on the Western Front…
1/11/13 – If you’d like to read some highlights and see some pictures of our first week studying World War I (in London and Oxford), I posted a summary at our department blog this morning. On to the Western Front!
The Pietist Schoolman 