Here • Two more posts on how World War I has been commemorated in western Europe, the first focused on German military cemeteries in Belgium and France and the second on memorials in two large German cities. • And for good measure, a link to an op-ed piece in the New York Times about why … More That Was The Week That Was
It’s good to be back blogging full-time after a quiet December and a total hiatus the first half of January. Somehow we kept getting a steady number of hits during that period, to the point that we’ll actually be welcoming our 15,000th visitor sometime today! Thanks to everyone for reading!! What you might have missed … More That Was The Week That Was
After being awake for twenty-three hours (thirteen of them on one Delta plane or another), my body decided that it was still on Munich time, so I stumbled out of bed at 4:30, brewed coffee, and started to go through my Google Reader feed — neglected for over two weeks now. I don’t subscribe to … More Those Were The Weeks That Were
A relatively quiet week for The Pietist Schoolman (grading season, doncha know) was more than offset by some excellent blogging elsewhere. Here I’ve always wanted to write about my favorite punctuation mark — but to get to do that and respond to a New York Times op-ed piece on belief in God at the same … More That Was The Week That Was
A week of questions here at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere in the blogging universe: Here Why do I love Sherlock Holmes, including his newest incarnation on the BBC? What makes Tim Tebow the best story (in sports or otherwise) and the recipient of unsolicited advice from fellow evangelical quarterbacks? Why would the foreign minister … More That Was The Week That Was
At The Pietist Schoolman I don’t tend to cry in the classroom, but here’s why a lecture on the Holocaust (and the related program of euthanasia that killed hundreds of thousands of children, youth, and adults with physical and mental disabilities) gets me every time. My planned travel course on World War I was approved, … More That Was The Week That Was
Some “best of” reruns and desperate pleading for Cliopatria Award nominations notwithstanding, I pretty much took last week off. But other bloggers were hard at work: On Thanksgiving Parker Palmer professed himself “profoundly grateful that America is not a Christian nation. If it were, my Quaker convictions might get me into very deep oatmeal. And … More That Was The Week That Was
Here’s what happened here and at other blogs and sites in the past week. Here Can historians engage in both empathy and judgment (all without “hindsight bias”)? The case of Neville Chamberlain, as presented by anti-appeaser/historian Winston Churchill. The greatest hero in Swedish military history… Still not quite sure why that should cause me any … More That Was The Week That Was
A few hopefully interesting things were seen here at The Pietist Schoolman in the past week. Here’s a list of them, plus a few of the many, many other noteworthy posts and essays published at other sites: Here Having survived my first visit to the pulpit, I shared the text of my All Saints’ sermon … More That Was The Week That Was
Here Twenty-five hours and counting until I preach my first sermon, on Revelation 7:9-17. I piggybacked on the arguments of two much more gifted scholars: first, Roger Olson’s lament that some Christian colleges borrow liberally from a business model led me again to revisit the history of Bethel University and the educational philosophy of its … More That Was The Week That Was
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