Martin Spence is Associate Professor of History at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is writing for us this weekend at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association (and related organizations) in New York City. Enjoy his latest post. –JF...
American Society of Church History
Nothing But the Blood
Martin Spence is Associate Professor of History at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is writing for us this weekend at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City. Enjoy his latest post. –JF “Blood”...
American Exceptionalisms
Martin Spence is Associate Professor of History at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is writing for us this weekend at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City. Enjoy his latest post. –JF The...
The American Society of Church History is Coming to Town!
Martin Spence is Associate Professor of History at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is writing for us this weekend at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City. Enjoy! –JF It may be January...
*Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump* is Spotted at the American Society of Church History Meeting in D.C.
My colleague Devon Manzullo-Thomas took this picture and tweeted it. Thanks Devon! And thanks to readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home for pre-ordering! If you haven’t pre-ordered yet, you can do so here at 21% off. The good...
AHA Dispatch: “Case Studies in Evangelical Parachurch Ministries”
We are very happy to have Brantley Gasaway writing for The Way of Improvement Leads Home from the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. In this report, Gasaway reflects on a session at the American Society of Church History,...
Winter Meeting of the American Society of Church History Changes Its Relationship with the American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Today I received this form letter from Candy Gunther Brown, the incoming President of the American Society of Church History (ASCH). In 2018 the ASCH will hold its Winter meeting alongside the annual meeting of the American Historical Association (AHA) in...
Storify: The Intellectual Legacy of Mark A. Noll
I Storified my tweets here....
Michael Limberg on Day 2 and Day 3 of the Spring Meeting of the American Society of Church History
Cathedral of St. Paul, St. Paul, Minnesota Michael Limberg, a graduate student at the University of Connecticut and a seasoned correspondent for The Way of Improvement Leads Home (check out his posts from the 2015 meeting of the American Historical Association), is in Minneapolis this...
Checking In With Michael Limberg From the Floor of the Spring Meeting of the American Society of Church History
Farmers and Mechanics Savings Bank–Minneapolis Michael Limberg, a graduate student at the University of Connecticut and a seasoned correspondent for The Way of Improvement Leads Home (check out his posts from the 2015 meeting of the American Historical Association), is […]
Celebrating the Career of Grant Wacker at the 2015 Meeting of the American Society of Church History
Those of you who have been following our coverage of the annual meetings of the American Historical Association and the American Society of Church History (ASCH) are familiar with Mandy McMichael. You can read here previous posts here.Mandy is a...
The New “Church History” Journal is Here
Here are the articles from the June 2014 issue of Church History: Robert McEachnie, “A History of Heresy Past: The Sermons of Chromatius of Aquileia.” Allson More, “Institutionalizing Penitential Life in Later Medieval and Early Modern Europe: Third Orders, Rules, and […]
American Society of Church History Live Blog
If you missed any of the great panels at this year’s American Society of Church History winter meeting, I would encourage you to check out the conference’s live blog. A lot of great stuff here. The only problem is that […]
Call for Papers: Spring Meeting of the American Society of Church History in Oxford
The American Society of Church History (ASCH) and the Ecclesiastical History Society in Britain (EHS) will be holding a special joint meeting, Thursday to Saturday, April 3-5, 2014, in Oxford, England. The primary theme of the conference is Migration and Mission […]
The Winter Meeting of the American Society of Church History
The program for the Winter Meeting of the ASCH is out and it abounds with interesting and provocative sessions. I wish I could go to them all. I am looking forward to joining Anna Lawrence, Christopher Jones, Katherine Carte Engel, […]
Call for Papers: Winter Meeting of the American Society of Church History
If you want to present a paper at the Winter meeting of the American Society of Church History in Washington D.C. there are two deadlines to consider: February 15, 2013: For joint AHA/ASCH session proposals. (These need to be submitted […]
Emily Clark at the American Society of Church History
I did not get to attend much of the annual meeting of the American Society of Church History this past weekend in New Orleans. I did manage, however, to slip in for Laurie Maffly-Kipp’s presidential address on Saturday night and […]
The Burden of Church History
This evening I crashed the American Society for Church History meeting to hear Laurie Maffly-Kipp of the University of North Carolina deliver her presidential address: “The Burden of Church History.” Here are most of my tweets. I hope Dr. Maffly-Kipp […]