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“Tell It Like It Is”: How the Church Should Respond to Trump
During our travels over the holiday weekend, we visited a church and witnessed an odd, telling moment. Looking for a negative sermon illustration at one point, the pastor spontaneously mentioned “the...
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History: Jerks Studying Jerks
One of the most venerable historians in the blogosphere is Ann Little, whose Historiann blog has been around since the George W. Bush administration. As you might have noticed from her quotations in my...
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Now 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...
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That Was The Week That Was
Last week it was all Reformation, all the time here at The Pietist Schoolman: my fame as the cartoon voice of a singing Martin Luther continue to grow; I tweeted my way through the Reformation; I...
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That Was The Week That Was
Here… • My favorite movie of the year is a documentary on teaching by one of my best friends. • Latest evidence that it’s hard to define “evangelical,” the wide range of evangelical responses to a...
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That Was The Week That Was
This week at The Pietist Schoolman I looked at recent trends in the history major at religious colleges and universities, and Sam Mulberry and I concluded our podcast travelogue with a visit to Munich....
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Should Christians Confess Sins to Plants?
I know this title sounds absurd. It certainly did to many people in my feed when Union Seminary tweeted this on Tuesday: Today in chapel, we confessed to plants. Together, we held our grief, joy,...
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The With-God Life: The Song of Moses
I can put up with almost every other inconvenience, but not getting to sing as part of a group for the duration of COVID has been a tough pill to swallow. Whether in a choir or as part of a...
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Following Jesus: The Orthodox Tradition
As I mentioned earlier this summer, one of my projects for the next year is to represent the Pietist tradition in an online, ecumenical conversation about how different Christians understand what it...
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Following Jesus: The Reformed Tradition
If you had told me twenty, ten, or even five years ago that a Pietist like me would find much common ground with a Reformed Christian, I’d have been skeptical. Yet when I read Wes...
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