Tag: Christian Colleges

Christian Humanist Profiles

Listen to My Interview on Christian Humanist Profiles

February 23, 2015

2/23/15 – I’m quite sure I have no business being admitted to any intellectual club whose membership includes Stanley Hauerwas, Merold Westphal, and John Milbank. So it was beyond kind of Nathan Gilmour to interview me for the newest episode of Christian Humanist Profiles, one of several terrific podcasts produced by the prolific team of Christian Humanists. We touched on several chapters … More Listen to My Interview on Christian Humanist Profiles

Taking Our Book on the Road: Messiah College

February 23, 2015

I’m very excited to announce that I’ll be at Messiah College on April 30th to give a variety of presentations related to our book, The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons! We’ll kick off at 9:45am with a chapel talk on “New Persons, New Church, New World: Pietism and Today’s Christian College.” After lunch … More Taking Our Book on the Road: Messiah College

Petty-Madden organ at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church

That Was The Week That Was

February 7, 2015

Here… • Our department’s weekly webisode series, Past & Presence, premiered on Wednesday. (Despite the best attempts of the Conference on Faith and History Facebook page to put us in competition, John Fea was gracious enough to plug our webisodes at his blog. And congrats to John for his Why Study History? getting such prominent attention from the American Historical Association!) • … More That Was The Week That Was

IVP ad for our Pietism/higher ed book in the Fall 2014 issue of CCCU Advance

Announcements: What’s New with Our Pietism Book

January 27, 2015

Despite my being out of the country for three weeks, I’m happy to report that there’s been plenty of activity around The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons. • IVP Academic published a Q&A with me that serves as a brief introduction to key themes of the book. Here’s a sample: What do … More Announcements: What’s New with Our Pietism Book

Copies of our Pietist Vision book

Have You Received Your Copy of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Ed Yet?

December 19, 2014

12/19/14 – Word on the street is that preordered copies of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education: Forming Whole and Holy Persons are starting to arrive in mailboxes! If you’ve got a copy and want to share a photo or a favorite quotation, tweet it to #wholeandholypersons, post it at our Facebook page, or … More Have You Received Your Copy of The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Ed Yet?

Bethel chapel in the library, 1973

Practice and Affection, Not Just Belief: Further Thoughts on How Colleges and Universities Remain “Christ-Centered”

November 20, 2014

Earlier this fall I shared the text of a brief speech I made to a Christian College Consortium symposium at Wheaton College: a Pietist perspective on what it means for schools like the CCC’s thirteen members to “stay Christ-centered.” I suggested that “staying” cannot be static and that “Christ-centered” must be understood in terms of … More Practice and Affection, Not Just Belief: Further Thoughts on How Colleges and Universities Remain “Christ-Centered”

IVP ad for our Pietism/higher ed book in the Fall 2014 issue of CCCU Advance

Puff Pietism! Let the Promotional Campaign Begin…

November 17, 2014

The prize goes to G.W. Carlson for being the first reader to spot an advertisement for our forthcoming book, The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education, on p. 40 of the fall issue of CCCU Advance. Leave a comment or send me an e-mail if you see it advertised elsewhere! And remember that you can preorder the book from … More Puff Pietism! Let the Promotional Campaign Begin…

How selected CCCU members mirror the minority populations of their metro areas

Do Christian Colleges Mirror the Diversity of Their Locales?

November 6, 2014

Last week my review of Department of Education data (via a Chronicle of Higher Education tool) found that Christian colleges were considerably less diverse than the national average, though perhaps a bit better in that respect than religious colleges as a whole. Picking up on my observation that West Coast members of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities … More Do Christian Colleges Mirror the Diversity of Their Locales?