At The Pietist Schoolman I think I pretty much beat everyone to the punch in posting something on Rob Bell’s Love Wins. A summer spent, in part, shooting the breeze over overpriced coffee drinks with former students produced this celebration of alumni. My series on employing a “usable past” to define the mission and identity … More That Was the Week That Was
The past week found me writing and reading an even more motley crew of posts than usual. Behold: a small but eclectic sampling of the week that was. Here The first installment of what I plan as a recurring Monday feature: a semi-serious look-ahead at “This Week in History.” Embedded will be a recurring sub-feature: … More That Was the Week That Was
I confess: I brought my laptop along on our recent family vacation. But for the most part, I did a decent job of ignoring the blogosphere and focusing on more crucial tasks — e.g., how to get western Michigan sand off/out of every object and article of clothing we brought to the beach. So I’m … More That Was the Week That Was
A quick recap of what was happening at this blog and better ones in the last week. Ici Yes, coming to the end of thinking through my proposal for a travel course on World War I already has me longing for la belle langue of France (and southern Belgium, I guess). In the last four … More That Was the Week That Was
Whenever I felt like I was getting overly excited about new media, I could always say, “At least I’m not blogging.” That crumbled a month ago, but after ignoring my family for an hour to work on some post about Caravaggio or English music halls, I could always plead, “At least I’m not on Twitter.” … More That Was the Week That Was
As I noted in my very first post on this blog, I’m not an early adopter. So I’m probably the ten millionth person to realize that Google has an application called Reader that lets you easily digest the contents of any blog that interests you without the trouble of actually visiting it. All of which … More That Was the Week That Was
Kind of a slow blogging week, what with the long weekend and a heat-induced torpor slowing down us hard-summering intellectuals. But here’s what you might have missed at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere. Here I revealed the Baroque painting that lends a sliver of visual flair to the top of this otherwise text-heavy blog—along the … More That Was the Week That Was
In case you missed them, a few of the nuggets found at this blog and others in the past week: Here The first five days of my proposed World War I travel course had us imaginatively immersing ourselves in American history, contrasting pilgrimage with tourism while we jetted to London, identifying the four best movies … More That Was the Week That Was
With a nod to the early 1960s satirical British TV program that featured future Monty Python members John Cleese and Graham Chapman and children’s author Roald Dahl as writers, here’s the first installment of our recap of what happened last week here at The Pietist Schoolman and elsewhere around the Web… The Week Here: My … More That Was the Week That Was
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