At The Pietist Schoolman I don’t tend to cry in the classroom, but here’s why a lecture on the Holocaust (and the related program of euthanasia that killed hundreds of thousands of children, youth, and adults with physical and mental disabilities) gets me every time. My planned travel course on World War I was approved, … More That Was The Week That Was
12/1/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… Sara, Amy, Sam, and I discuss prophetic voices, the best hamburgers in the Twin Cities, and the new Muppets movie. Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
Some “best of” reruns and desperate pleading for Cliopatria Award nominations notwithstanding, I pretty much took last week off. But other bloggers were hard at work: On Thanksgiving Parker Palmer professed himself “profoundly grateful that America is not a Christian nation. If it were, my Quaker convictions might get me into very deep oatmeal. And … More That Was The Week That Was
Here’s what happened here and at other blogs and sites in the past week. Here Can historians engage in both empathy and judgment (all without “hindsight bias”)? The case of Neville Chamberlain, as presented by anti-appeaser/historian Winston Churchill. The greatest hero in Swedish military history… Still not quite sure why that should cause me any … More That Was The Week That Was
11/10/11 – On this week’s episode of CWC: The Radio Show… Sam, Amy, and I discuss punctuation, Adele, sports dynasties, the history of evangelicalism, and why churches should be wary of trying to be “relevant.” Get episodes here, or click on the logo on the right side of the home page.
One of these days I’m going to have to write a series trying to explain what the Evangelical Covenant Church is. My denomination is a small one (fewer than 200,000 members in the US), hard to understand if you didn’t grow up in it, and yet growing fast. (More than half the current denominational membership … More Feed My Starving Children
He has shown all you people what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. (Micah 6:8, TNIV) Let me say right off the bat: I believe Christians ought to seek social justice. We follow a Savior who opened … More Micah 6:8 in Christian Rhetoric
As we continue in this series blogging through Mark Noll and Carolyn Nystrom’s Clouds of Witnesses: Christian Voices from Africa and Asia (InterVarsity Press), we’ll start to consider just how Christianity grew so dramatically in 20th century Africa. Today the stories of three Africans who led different sorts of revivals: William Wadé Harris, Simeon Nsibambi, … More Clouds of Witnesses: Revivals in Africa
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
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