Here… • A short week back from vacation began with the news of the passing of the leading historian of the Baptist General Conference (now Converge Worldwide)… • …then ended with the case of the South Carolina high school student who defied a school district policy and inserted the Lord’s Prayer into his commencement address. … More That Was The Week That Was
Here • I love questions that assume the possibility of time travel existing… Which baseball game do you wish you could go back in time to watch? • One of the games I suggested featured a shellshocked World War I veteran… In related sports/WWI news, I continued my series on Minnesotan commemoration of that war … More That Was The Week That Was
Today’s report of nineteen more Christians being killed in Nigeria hastened along a post I’ve been meaning to write for a week or so: in which I tweak some advice that Karl Barth may or may not have given and encourage readers to join me in spending some time praying with the Bible in one … More Praying with the International Religious Freedom Report
This summer I devoted a blog post to celebrating the alumni of Bethel’s History and Social Studies programs. Today let me turn the spotlight on a group of our current students: members of the fall section of our capstone course, Senior Seminar, who presented their research papers Monday night. (Apologies to those who subscribe to … More In Celebration of Students
8/9/11 – My friend Sara Shady is quoted in a new Christianity Today article on the White House’s Interfaith and Community Service Campus Challenge, in which Bethel and several other evangelical colleges are participating. Sara explains how our students will work with Muslims in the Frogtown neighborhood of St. Paul and addresses concerns that interreligious … More Christian Colleges and an Interfaith Initiative
I confess: I brought my laptop along on our recent family vacation. But for the most part, I did a decent job of ignoring the blogosphere and focusing on more crucial tasks — e.g., how to get western Michigan sand off/out of every object and article of clothing we brought to the beach. So I’m … More That Was the Week That Was
I’m very reluctant to comment on last Friday’s tragic events in Norway. (1) The story is still evolving. (2) I’m not an expert on Norway, or on right-wing extremism in Europe. And (3) as a historian, I’d always prefer to analyze events from a temporal distance. But… I do teach modern European history regularly, and … More Norway: “A Very Old War”
The Pietist Schoolman 