Last July, a few months into the first Latin American papacy, I shared some findings from a Pew Forum study of religion in Brazil, where the Roman Catholic share of the population fell from 92% in 1970 to 65% in 2010. Today Pew released a broader report on the entire region — with much the same … More Religious Shifts in Latin America
A week that began with me celebrating my third anniversary blogging as The Pietist Schoolman ends with just a quick links wrap today, as I’m in the middle of attending the annual meeting of the Covenant Church. Next week I’ll come back to my question about that denomination… What's the @Cov_Church? "Missional Pietism," says @ECCprez … More That Was The Week That Was
My new World War II course — belatedly kicking off this afternoon — fulfills a general education category at Bethel that focuses on the development of Western life and thought in the “modern” era. So as I set up the course today, one theme I need to introduce is the war as a crucible of … More Are Human Rights in Decline?
Here… • Playing Santa for someone who loves to read about history? A few gift suggestions… • Then one more (if that someone is interested in the Jesus People, or just likes well-written religious history). • Choral music, corporate confession, and comfort with paradox… Why I’m almost a Lutheran. • And I celebrated Human Rights … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • Part two of my Evangelical Theological Society paper on David Swartz’s Moral Minority argued that its most important chapter was its least (North) American one. • Is it particularly hard to rank Christian colleges as opposed to their secular peers? • I took a three-day break from formal blogging, but I did spend … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • The blogging team here at The Pietist Schoolman expanded, as my student Fletcher Warren responded to John Merriman’s The Dynamite Club and we introduced historian Jared Burkholder, our new regular guest blogger (stop back next Friday to read his first post). • Meanwhile, my colleagues at Bethel University continue to inspire me as … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • I was reminded that, even in a challenging season for my university, I’ve got a pretty varied, fulfilling job. • But even more encouraging, that Bethel students can articulate the value of the Christian liberal arts even more thoughtfully than their professors. • Though would they think to think of such a model … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • I learned several important blogging lessons last week. First, if you want to drastically increase your traffic, then write about Millennials and/or Rachel Held Evans… then do it again… • …or question whether New York really is all that important to the future of evangelicalism… • …or whether research is actually the “coin … More That Was The Week That Was
When I blogged earlier this year about the election of Jorge Bergoglio as a “pope of firsts,” the first such groundbreaking I explored was Pope Francis as the “First Latin American Pope.” I noted that some observers speculated that the election was meant, in part, to address the decline of Catholicism in regions like Francis’ … More Shifting Religion in South America
Here… • I concluded my series on patriotic songs in American hymnals: part two introduced a few songs that never made it into more than one or two hymnals; part three asked why even very popular patriotic songs fail to appear in many hymnals. • No, Pope Francis did not promise “get out of purgatory … More That Was The Week That Was
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