The fourth season of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast wrapped up with Sam Mulberry and me talking about our favorite memorials, museums, meals, and masterpieces in the southern German city of Munich. In addition, we closed with some broader reflections on the spiritual purposes of travel. (If nothing else, skip ahead to 33:50 for our discussion of Dachau and then what Sam once learned from Randall Balmer…)

Meals: potato dumplings and “deconstructed pancakes”

Masterpiece: Bavaria’s WWI memorial (above) and (stretching the definition of “Munich” considerably) Ernst Jünger’s greatest novel

Memorial: a “chalk outline,” a Nazi documentation center, and, um, Michael Jackson

Museum: the Pinakothek der Moderne and the first Nazi concentration camp

It’s been a short season, but one of the best we’ve done. I’m more than excited than ever to take college students to these places next month — and then to bring some older folks back in June.

(By the way, I do have two spots left in that summer trip; I’ll accept applications through Saturday.)

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