A Pietist Perspective on “Staying Christ-Centered” in Christian Higher Ed
Some thoughts on Pietism and Christian higher education, courtesy of Bethel University prof (and Pietist Schoolman blogger) Chris Gehrz. ...read more
Tag: Higher Education
Photo Friday: A Teacher and a Scholar
Today's Photo Friday offers another preview of my forthcoming biography of Brethren in Christ theologian and church historian Luke L. Keefer Jr. ...read more
Education Pioneer Ernest L. Boyer Remembered in New Memoir
Kay Boyer, author of a new memoir about her life with husband Ernest L. Boyer Sr., honored at a book reception on the campus of Messiah College. ...read more
Brethren in Christ on the World Wide Web
A few Brethren in Christ-related links that caught my attention over the past weeks....read more
Brethren in Christ on the World Wide Web
A few Brethren in Christ-related links that caught my attention over the past weeks. ...read more
Photo Friday: Mealtime at Messiah College
Can you identify any of the students or faculty in this photograph, a slice-of-life shot from Messiah College in the 1950s?...read more
The (Very) End of Upland College
Upland College, closed in 1965, was auctioned to the highest bidder forty-four years ago today....read more
On-Campus Peacemaking at Brethren in Christ Colleges?
An invitation for readers to share their stories about peacemaking initiatives at Messiah and Upland Colleges....read more
Photo Friday: No Football Team? Maybe Your College Was Started By Pacifists.
Why has Messiah College -- started by the Brethren in Christ in 1909 -- never had a college football team? Might it have something to do with their peace position?...read more
“The Devil in Cap and Gown,” or Another Connection Between Fundamentalism and the Brethren in Christ
As a student at Princeton University in the 1920s, Roy H. Wenger received a pamphlet from Mary Zook warning him of the dangers of "higher criticism" of the BIble. The act shows that some Brethren in Christ were concerned about the advance of liberalism in the Church....read more