3/20/13 – Lately there’s been much talk here about the medieval monastic Francis of Assisi because of the election of a pope who took that name… If you’d like to learn more about the saint himself and you happen to live in the Twin Cities (or are willing to relocate for a time), Salem Covenant … More Adult Sunday School Class on Francis of Assisi
Here… • The Winter Seminar at Bethlehem Covenant will continue later this morning after getting off to a great start last night. In preparation for it, I shared a couple of posts on Pietism: one on Covenant theologian Don Frisk’s attempt to apply Pietist principles to Christian education; the other on a Church of the … More That Was The Week That Was
How important is St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo? Let’s put it this way… I don’t write and perform parody rap videos for just any theologian-philosopher: Six years later, that lyric and video don’t seem quite as awesome as they did in the moment. But I stand by this couplet as containing some of my finest … More Happy Birthday, Augustine of Hippo!
Every one of the now nine years I’ve taught at Bethel University, I’ve led a section of our department’s capstone course, HIS499 Senior Seminar. In it, our majors conduct a significant project of original historical research on any topic of their choice, which leaves me to act more as facilitator and editor than lecturer. We … More Bethel’s History Senior Seminar Presents…
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
A few hopefully interesting things were seen here at The Pietist Schoolman in the past week. Here’s a list of them, plus a few of the many, many other noteworthy posts and essays published at other sites: Here Having survived my first visit to the pulpit, I shared the text of my All Saints’ sermon … More That Was The Week That Was
The Pietist Schoolman 