Few books have been as significant in my professional life as Scholarship and Christian Faith: Enlarging the Conversation, edited (and about half-written) by the husband and wife team of Douglas Jacobsen and Rhonda Hustedt Jacobsen, of Messiah College. I first encountered it in 2006, during a summer workshop at Bethel University led by the Jacobsens. … More Religion’s “Return” to Higher Education
The first birthday of this blog is coming up on Wednesday, which means that I’ve spent the weekend thinking back over the past twelve months, and observing some common themes. One, starting early in the history of the blog and popping up periodically ever since, has been the challenge of defining Pietism. In our Pietist … More Tim Keller on Reformed “Pietism”
Here • The great Frederick Buechner helped me (via a 1969 sermon) talk to my students about the meaning of vocation. • Reflections on a weekend spent in the woods of northern Minnesota and (imaginatively) on the desert road where Philip encountered an Ethiopian eunuch. • Parts one and two of my recent series of … More That Was The Week That Was
The title of this post will be news to many of our readers, so let me give some context right away: As part of an interview with Christianity Today about his reaction to the death of Trayvon Martin, Baptist pastor and neo-Reformed theologian John Piper was asked about his book Bloodlines, on racism and racial … More John Piper: “I think I’m a pietistic Calvinist”
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
A series of posts taking you day-by-day through a proposed travel version of my course HIS230L World War I. Read the introduction to the series here, or the previous post here. Thursday, January 17, 2013 – Versailles HOLLYWOOD FOR $1200: Which American president was the subject of the 1944 film, nominated for ten Oscars, that … More “The Right Kind of Peace”
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