Here… • I don’t know if Frederick Buechner actually runs his own Twitter account or not, but regardless, it was an honor to have him (or “him”) retweet my post on balancing multiple callings, the first in a series on “The Vocation of a Christian Historian.” (From an essay I wrote over Christmas that drew … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • The Winter Seminar at Bethlehem Covenant will continue later this morning after getting off to a great start last night. In preparation for it, I shared a couple of posts on Pietism: one on Covenant theologian Don Frisk’s attempt to apply Pietist principles to Christian education; the other on a Church of the … More That Was The Week That Was
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
Yesterday I cleared out some intriguing education-related links I didn’t get a chance to blog about during my three weeks teaching in Europe. Today: history! • It’s both hard and easy to believe that the last president of the American Historical Association not to be a research university professor held office during World War II… … More That Was The Month That Was: History
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
Here… • Update on my beardedness: advice taken. • How to have a Cratchit Christmas dinner, all for less than nine bob! (And if you’re feeling more Edwardian than Victorian, try this Downton Abbey Christmas.) • G.W. Carlson served as our special correspondent covering the Clarence Jordan Symposium. • GW’s post covered several of the … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • A preview of some of the primary sources we’ll be reading next month on our history of World War I travel course in Europe, and the places where we’ll read them. • Are evangelical colleges stepping back from explicit endorsement of political and economic conservatism? • What’s happened historically on 12/12/12, 11/11/11, 10/10/10, … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • Announcing a couple of events coming up at Bethel University: a faculty workshop on Pietism and Christian colleges that I’ll be directing, and a much larger initiative led by my seminary colleague Chris Armstrong, on “work with purpose.” • And another announcement: of a class on the history of the Evangelical Covenant Church … More That Was The Week That Was
Here • I presented a three-part series exploring whether social class (as much as gender and race) is a source of inequality at Christian colleges like my employer. (part 1: some preliminary observations; part 2: mining data on higher education and social mobility; part 3: some stray thoughts on evangelical and Jesuit colleges and universities) … More That Was The Week That Was
Here • 2012 has been busy, and 2013 is shaping up to be even more hectic, but I was happy to add this speaking engagement on the Pietist impulse in the 21st century. • And I’ll always make time for a mock trial that, year in and year out, is probably the best, most challenging … More That Was The Week That Was
The Pietist Schoolman 