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Screenshot from CWC webisode reviewing the Reformations

A Field Report from the Digital Frontier: My Experience Teaching Online

October 7, 2013

This past summer my colleague Sam Mulberry and I taught the first online version of one of Bethel University’s more venerable courses: GES130 Christianity and Western Culture — a team-taught, multidisciplinary, one-semester Western Civ course taken by something like two-thirds of Bethel students as a foundational experience in the Global Perspectives pillar of Bethel’s gen … More A Field Report from the Digital Frontier: My Experience Teaching Online

That Was The Week That Was

October 5, 2013

Here… • Coming ca. November 2014 from InterVarsity Press… Whole and Holy Persons: A Pietist Approach to Christian Higher Education, edited by The Pietist Schoolman. • As part of my historical sketch of bans on alcohol and other “lifestyle” policies at evangelical colleges like Bethel University, I quoted one-time campus pastor Jim Spickelmier, whose life … More That Was The Week That Was

Fruit in Drought

September 28, 2013

As I wrote this post yesterday, I was being shadowed. It was the first time I’ve had anyone ask about setting up a job shadow, and while I was happy to give it a try, I also worried that it would chiefly consist of the student sitting and watching me type at my laptop (with … More Fruit in Drought

A tackle in a college football game between the Naval Academy and the University of Massachusetts

That Was The Week That Was

September 14, 2013

Here… • Announcements: Books & Culture is alive and kicking; Efrem Smith took a new job; the U.S. News Best Colleges report came out and it’s still ridiculous. That is all. • Not exactly the finest hour for either Britain or France: the Phoney War of 1939-1940. And WWII would get worse for both countries … More That Was The Week That Was

Do Laptop Computers Inhibit Learning?

August 19, 2013

I don’t see a lot of stories from north of Minnesota’s border catch fire in my social media circles, but this one showed up on my Facebook page and Bethel’s faculty listserv last Friday: Laptops have replaced pen and paper for many post-secondary students but a Canadian study suggests using computers during lectures could be … More Do Laptop Computers Inhibit Learning?

WWII Dead from Pierce County Veterans Memorial

WWII Takes Over The Pietist Schoolman

August 13, 2013

At least, that’s how it might feel for the next few weeks… Some explanation: Next January, for Bethel’s three-week “interim” term, I’ll be debuting a new course on the Second World War (HIS231L), designed to alternate J-terms with a long-standing class on the First World War (HIS230L) that I’ve converted into a travel course in … More WWII Takes Over The Pietist Schoolman

That Was The Week That Was

July 6, 2013

Here… • July 1 is a big day for commemorating momentous battles: the Somme turned 97, and Gettysburg turned 150. • “Liberal arts” ≠ “the humanities” (at least, not them alone). • And in what’s already become a Pietist Schoolman tradition: a Bah, Humbug! kind of post for the 4th of July. …There and Everywhere … More That Was The Week That Was

Scholastic teaching at the University of Paris in 14th century

What Is Good Teaching?

June 20, 2013

When we walk out of a class, how do we know it was a good one? That question opened my friend David Williams’ talk at our “Pietist Idea of a Christian College” workshop last week. In the end, he concluded that it had little to do with content and everything to do with passion: there’s … More What Is Good Teaching?

The Bethel University History Department in May 2013

A Benediction for the Class of 2013

May 27, 2013

I originally composed a draft of this devotion for the final meeting of Bethel’s Christianity and Western Culture course last Friday, but what I shared as a benediction to a group of first-year students — from a text I first prayed over students ten years ago, at the end of my first semester at Bethel, … More A Benediction for the Class of 2013

West by Midwest 2013

May 21, 2013

5/21/13 – Let me interrupt my blogging break for a moment to engage in some wanton self-promotion… Tomorrow afternoon, my colleague Sam Mulberry and I will be hosting West by Midwest, what we hope will become an annual event at Bethel dedicated to sharing innovative teaching ideas. We’ll preview our new online version of Bethel’s … More West by Midwest 2013

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A Field Report from the Digital Frontier: My Experience Teaching Online

That Was The Week That Was

Fruit in Drought

That Was The Week That Was

Do Laptop Computers Inhibit Learning?

WWII Takes Over The Pietist Schoolman

That Was The Week That Was

What Is Good Teaching?

A Benediction for the Class of 2013

West by Midwest 2013