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Bethel University

What happened when an evangelical university created a scholarship named after George Floyd

John Fea   |  August 8, 2020

On August 3, 2020, Bethel University, a Christian school in St. Paul, Minnesota, announced the George Floyd Scholarship. The scholarship, named after the Black man killed by police during a May 2020 arrest in Minneapolis, is open to “incoming African...

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The Challenge of Christian Liberal Arts in This Pandemic and Beyond

John Fea   |  April 21, 2020

Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota will cut thirty faculty positions this week. Today, at Messiah College, we learned about how the administration will cut seven million dollars from our budget over the course of the next five years. I...

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Should You Support Your Child’s Decision to Attend a Christian College?

John Fea   |  January 7, 2020

Christian liberal arts colleges came under attack recently by a Southern Baptist theologian named Denny Burk.  I was going to blog about his recent tweets, but I did not want to call attention to them. The tweets mischaracterize the work...

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Chris Gehrz’s Open Letter to Billionaires and Millionaires Who Want to Give to Christian Colleges

John Fea   |  January 18, 2018

In case you haven’t heard, an investor named Bill Miller just gave $75 million to the Johns Hopkins University philosophy department.  The money will be used to double the size of the department and create nine endowed professorships.  Money will...

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Job Opening: Ancient-Digital History at Bethel University

John Fea   |  March 5, 2015

My friend Chris Gehtz, aka “The Pietest Schoolman,” has just announced a very interesting job opening at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN.   Bethel is looking to start a digital humanities major and they hope to hire a coordinator...

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A Useable Past vs. The Past as a Foreign Country

John Fea   |  March 4, 2015

Chris Gehrz and two of his Bethel University history majors wrestle with chapter two and chapter three of Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past in episode five of the Bethel web series “Past and Presence.”  Great...

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Introducing a New Webisode Series: “Past and Presence”

John Fea   |  February 6, 2015

Check out Bethel University History Department‘s new web series, “Past and Presence.”  Chris Gehrz, aka The Pietist Schoolman, is a mesmerizing host.  In the first segment he slowly moves to his right in front of what appears to be an endless...

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Another *Why Study History* Sighting

John Fea   |  February 3, 2015

At Bethel University in St. Paul, MN.  Glad I am being read alongside Tracy McKenzie! Thanks Chris Gehrz!...

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How Do You Promote an Introduction to History Course?

John Fea   |  June 4, 2014

Put together a very cool parody of the television show Mad Men. The good folks in the History Department at Bethel University in St. Paul–led by Chris Gehrz, the Pietist Schoolman— have created a new class called “Introduction to History.”...

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Chris Gehrz’s Students Continue to Weigh-In on “Why Study History”

John Fea   |  April 2, 2014

I am honored that Chris Gehrz‘s Senior Seminar at Bethel College is reading Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past.  Chris has been posting student reflections on the Bethel’s history department blog.  The latest comes from Paul...

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Thanks Bethel University History Students

John Fea   |  February 27, 2014

I am thrilled that Chris Gehrz (you may know him better as the Pietist Schoolman) is using my Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past in his Senior History Seminar at Bethel University in St. Paul, MN. ...

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Why Christians Need to Support Christian Higher Education

John Fea   |  October 16, 2013 Leave a Comment

Bethel University I appreciate Chris Gehrz’s honest appraisal of the struggles facing Christian colleges and universities in the United States and particularly his own institution, Bethel University in St. Paul.  Messiah College, the Christian college where I teach, has faced some […]

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