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Guest Lecturing at Houston’s College of Biblical Studies
My profound thanks to Phil Sinitiere of Baldblogger fame for inviting me to join his American religious history class at the College of Biblical Studies in Houston this coming Monday evening. I am...
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Interactive Map of the Territorial Expansion of the US, 1783-1912
If you have any interest in the territorial growth of the United States, go over to Lincoln Mullen’s historical blog and check out his interactive map of American expansion. It is meticulous in its...
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“Fellow Citizens, We Cannot Escape History”
An attack on a Puritan settlement, King Philip’s War (1675-78). Seventeenth century New England Puritans interpreted such events as God’s chastisement for sin. These were among the closing words of...
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History Behind Bars: Fostering Civic Engagement in a Prison
The following is from a presentation I gave at the 2014 Conference on Faith and History at Pepperdine University. In 1912, John J. Eagan, owner of the American Cast Iron Pipe Company, founded the Men...
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Christian Historians and Social Media
At the recent gathering of the Conference on Faith and History last week at the sublime Pepperdine University campus, one of the highlights was a panel on Christian historians and social media....
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How to Write a Research Paper
Panther Creek Trail, Cohutta Wilderness, Georgia I love hiking in the mountains. But hiking can be a true pain in the neck if my attitude isn’t right. Same thing with a research paper–it can be a...
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Jean Jacques Rousseau and the Enlightenment
Last year, I was invited by Veritas Press to participate in the production of a video curriculum for its Omnibus program, geared toward middle and high school students that focused on the history of...
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Phillip Luke Sinitiere Lectures on W. E. B. Du Bois in the Prison
Last summer, Phillip Luke Sinitiere graciously invited me to lecture on American exceptionalism in his American religious history class. Today, I had the opportunity to return the favor. Phil was the...
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Teaching at the Darrington Unit–A Look Back
I wrote this post on my Facebook page on September 7, 2011, right after concluding my second week of teaching courses in Southwestern Seminary’s Darrington Unit extension. Since the first class is...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, David Brooks, and “Listening While White”
Image credit: Penguin Random House I just finished reading Ta-Nehisi Coates’ bracing Between the World and Me. It came in the mail this afternoon, and I picked it up to read this evening. I could not...
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A Tribute to My High School History Teacher, Dr. Doug Frutiger
Dr. Frutiger’s note to me in my senior yearbook. It reads, “John, The daily handshake, the warm frown and the incessant ‘Why not, Frutiger’ or ‘No way, Frutiger.’ What will I do without them? Actually,...
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Talking Tocqueville at the Acton Institute
Just returned home from Grand Rapids, Michigan where I was honored to give a talk on “How to Read Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America” for the Acton Lecture Series. I lectured for about half...
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