That Was The Week That Was
Aside from sharing a new, hopeful episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast, this week I left blogging to others: • One reason this blog was on hiatus was that I was trying to write a eulogy for G.W....
View ArticleGlad Hearts: Some of My Favorite Voices from the Covenant Church
As I begin work on a book with one of its pastors about its theological heritage, I’ve been thinking a lot about the Evangelical Covenant Church. So with delegates from its congregations gathering in...
View ArticleNow Streaming: My Talk on “The Pietist Option for Evangelicals”
If you couldn’t attend my lecture last week in Chicago, it’s now streaming online via North Park University. Entitled “The Pietist Option for (Current and Former) Evangelicals,” the talk suggested how...
View ArticleChristian Mission as the “Befriending of Others”
Mark and I received the typeset proofs of The Pietist Option yesterday. While it’s exciting to see the book laid out for the first time, it also means we’ve reached the stage where we can’t make any...
View ArticleThat Was The Week That Was
Other than pondering my potential Lutheran-ness and dropping a #Reformation500 podcast on a world desperately short of both podcasts and #Reformation500 material, I continued to shirk my duties as a...
View ArticleThat Was The Week That Was
After a break for Thanksgiving, this week I looked at the numerical decline of the history major and shared some of my favorite meals and museums in my favorite world capital. A few other things I was...
View ArticleI’m a Pietist
Over the past months of transition, challenge, and uncertainty, I’ve learned something about myself: I’m a Pietist. It may seem like an obvious statement from someone who wrote a book called The...
View ArticleThat Was The Week That Was
This week I wrote about Confederate statues at The Anxious Bench and… well, I wrote thousands of words about Charles Lindbergh. (Yep, manuscript deadline starting to loom.) Elsewhere… • I used this...
View ArticleThe With-God Life: Idols
At the end of the 6th century AD, Pope Gregory the Great launched one of the most significant missions in Christian history. “Do not let the toil of the journey or the tongues of men, discourage you,”...
View ArticleMy Lindbergh Biography as Minnesota History
Yesterday I took another step toward the publication of Charles Lindbergh: A Religious Biography of America’s Most Infamous Pilot and submitted my response to what are called the page proofs. Though...
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