This week I got to be a bit more of a Pietist schoolman again, as we considered how a Pietist ethos would shape education at several levels. Things started with Sam and…

Roger Olson, historical theologian extraordinaire and professor at Baylor’s Truett Seminary, is our guest on the first full episode of The Pietist Schoolman Podcast. Join our conversation as it turns to…

Theology of the Old Testament: Testimony, Dispute, Advocacy There are all sorts of good things about defending one’s dissertation.  I never have to correct a student again when he addresses…

It was 1851, at the Women’s Convention in Akron, Ohio that a former slave stepped up to the platform and became one of the most powerful voices for Abolitionism and…

I realize I’m a dinosaur in all sorts of ways, and my paleophilia runs all the way from a preference for epics over novels (though some novels are undeniably good)…

JAC (a journal of rhetoric, culture, and politics) goes online Some sensible suggestions for revising seminary education In honor of Reformation Day, 15 Theses for the Charismatic movement Socratic teaching,…

The Future of Seminary Education: An Online Symposium Ed Cyzewski: Don’t go to church to get fed. Some implications of taking over abandoned malls for church use Stanley Fish: Don’t…

Tripp Fuller issues a manifesto on seminary education. Did you hear the one about the Hegelian who went to Saint Louis? An encomium for Stanley Fish The science of self-control…

Adorno, Bordieu, and the iPod. Philosophy-of-technology geeks unite! How America can take John Winthrop’s most famous Biblical allusion more seriously The spooky and insidious implications of treating reality like a…