David Grubbs leads Danny Anderson and Nathan Gilmour on a professional/clerical/official journey through the office.  We start with the Roman Empire and don’t slow down until we’re so far into…

Download this interview or listen on Stitcher Chaucer amuses us and Shakespeare moves us and Donne charms us, but among English poets none towers over us quite as John Milton…

Musical Intro – Jason Isbell “If it Takes a Lifetime” Opening Quotation – “The Place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep…

Download or Stream this Episode For folks like me, born in the mid-seventies, abortion has always been standing judicial precedent, always the stuff of political elections, always a reality of…

Intros Knowing A brief biography Katherine’s writings and historical importance Reading Divorced, Beheaded, Survived: A Feminist Reinterpretation of the Wives of Henry VIII Why this chapter is important to us…

Every generation of the faithful must learn and relearn the vocabularies and symbols and narratives of the faith, and theology in an era of hyper-literacy demands different disciplines than theology…

Today we conclude the first season of The Pietist Schoolman by talking with the woman whose preface opened our book, The Pietist Vision of Christian Higher Education. After spending much of her career as…

“Iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another.” With this proverb, the ancient Hebrew sages defined the value of friendship. Similarly, the Stoic Marcus Aurelius began his Meditations enumerating the…

Pietism was born in the Lutheran churches of 17th century Germany, but by the 20th century it was a pejorative term in much of American Lutheranism. To help us understand Lutheranism,…

I grew up Southern Baptist, and we were encouraged to look suspiciously at a number of things. Foremost among them were the consumption of alcohol and the high-church celebration of…

Intros A correction Knowing Show creation and general synopsis How we got into Supernatural Is it sexist? Does it treat religion well?–Some general thoughts Reading Supernatural and religion: subtext becomes text “Faith”…

This week on The Pietist Schoolman Podcast we welcome public historian Devin Manzullo-Thomas to the conversation. As the director of the Sider Institute for Anabaptist, Pietist, and Wesleyan Studies at Messiah College and…

After an early summer hiatus, we return this week with the first in a series of episodes sharing perspectives on Christian higher education from traditions both distinct from and historically…

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In its historical particularity tragedy had its first great moment in ancient Athens, when didaskaloi, educators, would compete for civic recognition staging increasingly elaborate exchanges of dramatic speeches.  And once…