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The Depoliticization of Conservative Christian Colleges?

December 11, 2012

Are evangelical colleges and universities becoming more cautious about identifying themselves with political (not theological) conservatism? This month’s issue of Christianity Today features a brief story following up on the recent resignation of conservative pundit Dinesh D’Souza from the presidency of The King’s College (TKC), a conservative Christian school in New York City. Reporter Melissa … More The Depoliticization of Conservative Christian Colleges?

The Pietist Idea of a Christian College

December 5, 2012

I’m very happy (and humbled) to announce that the Lilly Fellows Program has awarded Bethel a small grant in support of a workshop I’ll be directing next summer — The Pietist Idea of a Christian College: Bethel University. In many ways, this is the culmination of a strange journey that started during a similar kind … More The Pietist Idea of a Christian College

Cudahy Science Hall, Loyola University of Chicago

Final Thoughts on Social Class and Christian Colleges

November 28, 2012

A few stray observations that I couldn’t quite fit in to my earlier posts on social class at Christian colleges: Top 10 Lists Which evangelical colleges and universities in the Council for Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU) do best and worst according to Washington Monthly‘s social mobility index, discussed in yesterday’s post? Here are the … More Final Thoughts on Social Class and Christian Colleges

Social Class at Christian Colleges (part 2)

November 27, 2012

Does socioeconomic class, with vastly less fanfare than gender or race, present equally significant problems for learning communities centered on a Savior in whom there is no difference of class, gender, or race? As I wrote at the end of yesterday’s post, I was spurred to reflect on this by a Chronicle of Higher Education … More Social Class at Christian Colleges (part 2)

Social Class at Christian Colleges (part 1)

November 26, 2012

There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, nor is there male and female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. (Galatians 3:28) Since I arrived at Bethel in 2003, the phrases “anti-racism” and “racial reconciliation” have been prominent in campus discourse. Bethel leaders had identified a “ministry of reconciliation” (in the … More Social Class at Christian Colleges (part 1)

That Was The Week That Was

November 10, 2012

Here • Just in case he’s been reading without commenting for months now… Congratulations to Pres. Barack Obama on his reelection. Mr. President, you were busy on Tuesday morning, so if you missed it, let me encourage you to consider the great Christian humanist Erasmus’ advice to the Christian prince (or president) as you look … More That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was

October 20, 2012

Here • Can blogging be both “public thinking” and “digital scholarship”? • One of the contributors to our Pietist Impulse book was named a “woman to watch” by Christianity Today. (That feature was put together by CT’s excellent online editor Sarah Pulliam Bailey, who is moving on to a new job.) • Resources for those … More That Was The Week That Was

Congratulations, Shirley Mullen!

October 18, 2012

Congratulations to Shirley Mullen, president of Houghton College (the first woman to hold that office), for being named one of the “50 Women You Should Know” by Christianity Today in its October 2012 issue. In that article (not yet online just posted by CT), fellow historian Mark Noll writes of Shirley that, “In evangelical higher … More Congratulations, Shirley Mullen!

Close-Minded Christian Colleges?

October 11, 2012

Yesterday Conor Friedersdorf of The Atlantic extended his critique of what he sees as “epistemic closure” among many conservatives, chastising them for having abandoned genuine engagement in order to shelter inside of their own institutions: For decades, conservatives have complained about liberal control of academia and the media, often with good reason. Diversity of thought … More Close-Minded Christian Colleges?

You Can’t Spell Fundamentalism without Fun

October 10, 2012

I’m afraid that fundamentalism didn’t come off so well at our “Pietism and Christian Colleges” session this past Saturday at the Conference on Faith and History. Both in Jared Burkholder’s paper on Pietism and scholarly virtues and Kurt Peterson’s on the Evangelical Covenant Church in the 1950s, fundamentalism showed its least attractive face: suspicious, uncharitable, … More You Can’t Spell Fundamentalism without Fun

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The Depoliticization of Conservative Christian Colleges?

The Pietist Idea of a Christian College

That Was The Week That Was

That Was The Week That Was

Congratulations, Shirley Mullen!

Close-Minded Christian Colleges?

You Can’t Spell Fundamentalism without Fun