Here… • You can add “fledgling Charles Lindbergh biographer” to my résumé. • If you want to see the Pietist option in practice, visit an Evangelical Covenant congregation like Abbey Way of Minneapolis, MN or Vox Veniae of Austin, TX. • Coming across an essay by the ECC’s “first female theologian” helped me think through … More That Was The Week That Was
Not long before Britons voted in a referendum to leave the European Union, I wrote an Anxious Bench post surveying some Christian statements about “Brexit.” Now that it’s been a week since that vote, I thought I’d share a few responses and postmortems from and about British Christians: • Earlier surveys had predicted that practicing Christians would be the religious group most likely to … More British Christian Responses to Brexit
It’s too nice a summer day in Minnesota to stay inside for too long, but here’s a shortened version of TWTWTW: Here… • Year six of The Pietist Schoolman started with me revisiting a Baptist debate over religious freedom in the 1960s. • I wasn’t a delegate this year, but my denomination’s annual meeting had me reading through the expanding, increasingly … More That Was The Week That Was
I’m going to push back my usual Saturday links wrap until tomorrow. It’s proven impossible to ignore what happened in Britain this week, even though I’m not sure I actually have a lot of help to offer people wondering just what Brexit is or why it matters. I can’t explain just why the European Union has … More Scattered Thoughts on Brexit
Here… • My first post at The Anxious Bench surveyed British Christian responses to next week’s “Brexit” referendum. • I knew that would be the topic this time last week. But I certainly didn’t know that my second Bench post would be the same day, that it would respond to a mass shooting, or that it would focus on … More That Was The Week That Was
In 1975 Great Britain held a referendum on its 1973 admission to what was then still the European Economic Community. By a two-to-one margin, British voters ratified their country’s new role in Europe. In nine days, they will revisit that decision with another referendum, one that could well end with Britain negotiating a withdrawal from the European … More British Christians Debate “Brexit”
Here… • Should non-theologians like Rachel Held Evans and me be doing theology? • All readers interested in Pietism beyond 17th century Germany need to check out Mark Safstrom’s new translations of C. O. Rosenius and P. P. Waldenström. • Some more in this vein: the newest issue of a periodical written by the Baptist descendants of … More That Was The Week That Was
The Pietist Schoolman 