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… • Just when did Americans start calling the Civil War the Civil War? (Hint: not during the War of the Rebellion.) • My series on how WWII has been commemorated considered the semi-revival of traditional memorial structures like statues, then the way that commemorative meaning is determined and communicated. • Two 20th century events … More That Was The Week That Was
Today’s normally the day that I post a bunch of links, but since many of them had to do with the Rachel Held Evans’ piece on Millennials leaving Christianity anyway (critiqued here on Thursday), and since she just followed up on that with a post on why Millennials need the Church, I’ll put off “That … More A Few More Thoughts on Millennials and the Church
Here… If you like reading about Swedish-American Pietist educators who left their denominations’ colleges in the 1970s to do other things… Well, this past week at The Pietist Schoolman was pretty much your best week ever. • Karl Olsson, the Evangelical Covenant historian and former president of North Park College and Seminary, would have turned … More That Was The Week That Was
Here… • Military chaplains in World War I, Holocaust Remembrance Day, and Brad Paisley crooning with LL Cool J. What you’re seeing here is either the fruit of a well-rounded liberal arts education, or a blogger who’s abandoned any goal of thematic unity and is just writing about whatever flits across his mind… • Oh, … More That Was The Week That Was
The week in question being last week… Back on our regular schedule this Saturday… Here… • More posts in the devotional/inspirational vein than usual for me, thanks to Holy Week: Pietists on resurrection and hope for Maundy Thursday; seeing crosses everywhere on our WWI trip for Good Friday; and why a TV cliffhanger might suggest … More That Was The Week That Was
Here • Thanks to G.W. Carlson, professor emeritus of History and Political Science at Bethel University, for paying tribute to Paul Wellstone on the 10th anniversary of his death. • This week also saw the death of another liberal Midwestern senator. Unlike Paul Wellstone, however, George McGovern did run for president (three times, I think). … More That Was The Week That Was
Here • How technological innovation spread over the course of the twentieth century. I still can’t believe a majority of Americans before the mid-1990s didn’t own a dishwasher! • RIP John Keegan. • More Albums A to Z: Elvis Costello’s King of America. • Did you ever think that Mrs. Doubtfire looked a little bit … More That Was The Week That Was
Here • I liked Lauren Winner’s use of a pie social as a metaphor for the Church, though I Midwestern-ized it into a potluck supper. • Trying hard not to pile on Penn State after the NCAA sanctions that were announced Monday, I tried to make the case for sports playing an integral role in … More That Was The Week That Was
In my über-links post yesterday, I noted how the holiday that honors Martin Luther King, Jr. became an occasion for several writers to invoke King in support of their own positions on a variety of issues. One version of the phenomenon that I didn’t mention came from actor-director George Clooney, speaking about same-sex marriage during … More A Common Moral Inheritance?
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