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Sects and Sex
The Saal or meeting hall in the Gemeinhaus (community house) at Bethlehem, PA where men and women sat on opposite sides. Two weeks ago, I reported briefly on the panel devoted to A. Greg Roeber’s new...
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A Colleague Remembers Pete Seeger
J. D. Woods, a professor in the Art Department here at Grace and an acoustic musician, is one my favorite colleagues and he often gets asked to perform with his guitar or banjo. I can easily see Pete...
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Technology and Faith: A Perennial Dilemma
I recently had the opportunity to hear Tim Challies speak at one of our local churches here in Winona Lake, IN. Challies is a (Neo-Calvinist) pastor, writer, and a keen thinker who has helped his...
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Historical Schizophrenia: Academic and Public History
Generally speaking, academic historians and public historians approach the past from two different vantage points. For historians, a productive career has traditionally revolved around producing...
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The Prosperity Gospel and Historical Legitimacy
For those of us who are children of the 1980s, mention of the Prosperity Gospel conjures up images of fallen televangelists like Jimmy Swaggart and Jim Bakker or Protestant outlanders such as Benny...
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Introducing the Winona History Center at Grace College
The first time I heard about Winona Lake in northeast Indiana was during my research for my Masters thesis at TEDS. My project was a study of two Mennonite congregations in eastern Pennsylvania that...
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Should Christian Scholars be Watchdogs? An Interview with David Barton Critic...
Attention to David Barton’s treatment of Thomas Jefferson has died down since the controversy that led to Thomas Nelson rescinding their endorsement of The Jefferson Lies back in 2012. But Barton...
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Inerrancy and the “Lost World of Scripture”: An Interview with D. Brent Sandy
For fundamentalist-leaning evangelicals, biblical inerrancy carries a ton of freight. It remains something of a shibboleth that 1) Provides a litmus test of orthodoxy, 2) verifies that one actually...
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Should Christian Higher Education Be “Safe”?
In many Christian circles, secular colleges and universities can sometimes get a bad rap. Parents are warned that their children will “lose their faith” in these environments and that professors will...
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Examining Institutional Memory
My good friend and colleague, Mark Norris For longer than I want to admit, Mark Norris, my colleague in the History Department at Grace College, and I have been working to pull together an edited...
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Live, from Lancaster County… It’s Jared Burkholder!
If you’ve been wondering why our resident guest-blogger Jared Burkholder (Grace College, IN) hasn’t been blogging here in a while… Jared has spent the fall term as a Snowden Fellow with the Young...
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Thanks for holding my place, Chris!
This past fall I stepped away from The Pietist Schoolman as part of an effort to focus on research and writing that also took me on a sabbatical from Grace College to the Young Center for Pietist and...
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Why We Need to Stop Trying to Identify “True” Islam
Recent months have seen increased coverage of Muslim radicals in the Middle East, presidential statements about what is and what is not “real” Islam, and new articles on where groups like ISIS fit in...
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Becoming Grace… Now Available for Preorder!
I mentioned a few weeks ago that I have been co-editing a book on the history of Grace College and Theological Seminary and now I am happy to announce that Becoming Grace: Seventy-Five Years on the...
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How to Spark Islamic Revolution
As I mentioned in a former post, I just wrapped up a class on the history and politics of the Middle East, a class I have taught for a number of years now. One of its goals is for students to wrestle...
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Recent Conversations on Evangelicalism and Pietist-Anabaptist Identity
Recently, I had the opportunity to travel to Bridgewater College, which is located in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, just outside Harrisonburg, Virginia. The occasion, spearheaded by Steve...
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Grant Wacker on Billy Graham: Cushwa’s Spring Seminar
Duke Divinity School historian Grant Wacker’s new book on Billy Graham was the focus of this spring’s Cushwa Center Seminar in American Religion at the University of Notre Dame, which met this past...
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Jeff Bach on Becoming Grace
Last month I posted an excerpt from Shirley Mullen’s foreword to Becoming Grace, a volume I helped to edit about the history of Grace College and Theological Seminary. Today I offer the book’s second...
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Why you’ll be interested in our new book about Grace College and Seminary
A 1941 broadside helped to raise funds for the seminary building that became McClain Hall. Its here! Even if you don’t have any personal connection with Grace College or Seminary, there are lots of...
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How Peacemaking Helps Frame the Context of Anabaptism, Sexuality, and Higher...
The first of two guest posts this week comes from our friend Jared Burkholder, chair of the History and Political Science Department at Grace College. The rhetoric that has surrounded the recent...
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