Last week here at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere: Here Why the Evangelical Covenant Church has typically viewed activities like packing meals for hungry children in Africa as going hand in hand with conversionism, biblicism, and other hallmarks of evangelicalism No This Week in History but one day in the United Nations’ history brought to … More That Was The Week That Was
What you might have missed in the last seven days here at The Pietist Schoolman or elsewhere on interesting blogs, op-ed pages, etc. Here Celebrating some free advertising for our Pietist Impulse book! My attempts to venture into biblical studies and the history of rhetoric: when did Micah 6:8 become the social justice verse, and … More That Was the Week That Was
A busy Friday at work bumped my last regular post of the week to Saturday, which is why I’m posting a rare Sunday installment of my weekly links wrap-up, featuring items you might have missed both here at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere at sites that might interest my readers. Here Two series continued after … More That Was the Week That Was
Heard ’round these parts and others last week: At The Pietist Schoolman The thrilling conclusion to my series ranking the best national anthems, as we counted down #5, #4, #3, #2, and — wait for it — #1. To whom did we compare the people we hate before we had Hitler? Never expected to write … More That Was the Week That Was
What you might have missed last week, first here at The Pietist Schoolman and then around the blogosphere: Here Reading Carolyn Weber’s Surprised by Oxford in light of memoirs by Augustine of Hippo and Frederick Buechner had me thinking about how hard it can be to talk about loving God with those I most love. … More That Was the Week That Was
Some highlights from the past week at this and other blogs and publications. Here We paid tribute to one of my favorite hometown bands as they returned to putting out albums after a prolonged absence. Not a huge fan of the new CD, though the documentary mini-features (including an early, early video of a sound … More That Was the Week That Was
What you might have missed this week, here and elsewhere: Here Why Pietism may have been an obstacle to the development of higher education in some American Christian traditions, plus one exception. Three stories of Africans who led revivals in the 20th century. The problematic legacy of “muscular Christianity,” plus contemporary Christian ambivalence about athletic … More That Was the Week That Was
Here The beginning of a new series working through Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom’s new book, Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia. The introduction noted the inherent tension between doing history and doing historiography. The first set of stories came from two African Christians responding differently to the “new” imperialism of the … More That Was the Week That Was
Here at The Pietist Schoolman My 100th post: a “This Week in History” segment featuring two devastating fires, Lincoln’s killer’s killer, and the rises and falls of the Dutch and British empires. A two-part post jumping off from the recent discussion of “Dominion theology” and its influence on Republican presidential candidates Michelle Bachmann and Rick … More That Was the Week That Was
Here at The Pietist Schoolman This Week in History included the birthdays of an anthropologist and a singer-songwriter, the Declaration of the Rights of Man, and two low moments in Italian military history: the sack of Rome in 410, and Brazil’s declaration of war in 1942! Wrapping up eight posts on The Pietist Impulse in … More That Was the Week That Was
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