In part because I’ve got a bunch of grading to do (likely to inspire a bitter, self-loathing post early next week…) and in larger part because late last week I wrote my 300th post in just over eight months and suddenly felt massively tired, I’m not going to post anything today other than this: I’d … More Your Turn
Time to strike the set on 2011 here at The Pietist Schoolman. Things will be quiet here for a couple of weeks while Mrs. Pietist Schoolman and I travel to Britain and western Europe. But expect several reflections and photo essays to stem from that trip, as we’ll be scouting museums, memorials, and battlefield sites … More See You in 2012!
12/21/11 – With grades due tomorrow night and Christmas travels this weekend, I don’t expect to post much new material here for a few days. And generally, the next three weeks will find this blog fairly quiet. But expect me to come back in mid-January with plenty to say after spending two weeks in Europe … More Christmas Semi-Break
9/14/11 – Sometime yesterday afternoon we reached a landmark here at The Pietist Schoolman: the 5000th page view. (And only half from family members!) Recognizing on the one hand that there are blogs with that many views per hour, and on the other that I’m fortunate to find even one person interested in what I think … More 5000!
9/5/11 – How is Labor Day observed, or not observed? Nathan Gilmour asks about churches; John Fea about colleges and schools (Bethel is off, for the record); and Will McDonald has a long, excellent piece lamenting that Major League Baseball pays so little attention to this holiday, unlike Memorial Day or Independence Day (H/T Craig … More Labor Day Silences
8/25/11 – This’ll be all I post today as I take a break from course prep and blogging to join my family in attending Day 1 of the Minnesota State Fair. (All together now: “Our State Fair is a great state fair / Don’t miss it / Don’t even be late!”) But I’ll have pictures … More The Great Minnesota Get Together
8/11/11 – I didn’t have time to post anything substantive today while I spent the morning with my family in beautiful Stillwater, Minnesota and caught up on some pre-semester work at Bethel in the afternoon, but we’ll be back tomorrow morning with the next Pietist Impulse preview and then again on Saturday for a special … More Crickets Chirping…
7/18/11 – In for a social media penny, in for a pound. Over the weekend I sold what remained of my soul and joined Twitter. Follow me @cgehrz.
7/6/11 – I’ll have my own appreciation to post later in the summer, but for now, I’d encourage anyone who knew or simply knew of Jim Hawkinson to read the July 2011 issue of The Covenant Companion. If you don’t subscribe, you can find him remembered in pieces by Jane Swanson-Nystrom (who quotes Jay Phelan … More Jim Hawkinson
My enthusiasm for certain innovations notwithstanding, I’m not what you would call an “early adopter.” I bought an iPod Touch approximately two weeks before the iPad rendered it obsolete, and I still don’t own an iPhone. (When I renewed my T-Mobile contract recently and picked out the cheapest non-smart phone possible, my salesperson looked at … More What the World Needs Now…
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