I occasionally interact with assistant professors who teach at research universities. They are often worried about meeting the requirements of tenure. They wonder if their articles have been published in journals that were “prestigious” enough. Will their monographs with university...
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What Makes Your Book Valuable?
How do authors measure the success of their books? Rachel Toor asks this question in a very interesting piece at The Chronicle of Higher Education. Given my history in publishing, people often ask me for help with their book projects. One...
Do You Tell Your Class To Buy Your Book?
The Chronicle of Higher Education is conducting a survey. Take it here. Here is how I answered the questions: Instructors, have you assigned material you have written as required classroom reading? Did you recommend students purchase that material? Yes. I have...
Getting the Band Back Together To Discuss the State of the Evangelical Mind
I am happy to announce that in September I will be participating in a conference in Indianapolis titled “The State of the Evangelical Mind: Reflections upon the Past, Prospects for the Future.” Here is a description from the conference website:...
Robert George: A Christian Scholar on the Spiritual Disciplines
As many of you know, I am very interested in the ways that my Christian faith informs what I do as a scholar, historian, and teacher. Back in 2011 I joined my friends Jay Green and Eric Miller in editing Confessing...
On the Danger of Historical Analogies
As I wrote this weekend, everyone is making them these days. Historians (including myself on numerous occasions) are going public with analogies. They usually go something like this: “This presidential election is exactly like the election of (insert year).” And...
AHA 2016: Day 3 Wrap-Up
It was a busy day in Atlanta at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association. This morning I went to the Conference on Faith and History breakfast. It was good to see old friends and make some new ones....
Image of the Day
Cats love Confessing History. Thanks Matt Milsap!
Lilly Fellows Book Award: Call for Entries
I want to call your attention to this book prize for works that reflect on the intersection of academic life and Christian faith. Our book Confessing History: Explorations on the Historian’s Vocation (co-edited with Jay Green and Eric Miller) was a...
George Marsden Reviews “Confessing History”
I have been meaning to post this review of Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation. I think I speak for Jay Green and Eric Miller when I say that we are grateful to George Marsden, one of...
“Confessing History” at Covenant College
It’s Confessing History day here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home.Jay Green’s senior seminar at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, GA is reading Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation. The students took advantage of what looks […]
“Confessing History” Editors Reunite
After my lecture tonight at Geneva College I got to hang out with these guys again. Eric Miller is still teaching at Geneva and Jay Green came up from Georgia where he teaches at Covenant College. A few years ago […]
“Confessing History” Sighting
Two copies were spotted by Ian Clary at the Regent University bookstore in Vancouver! Thanks for sending the picture along, Ian.
US Intellectual Historians Tackle *Confessing History*
University of Texas-Dallas graduate student Mark Thompson has offered the most thorough review of our Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation to date. I think he captures the essence and schizophrenic nature of the volume. It […]
Have You Bought Your Father’s Day Gift Yet?
If not, let me make some suggestions:...
Conservatives Love “Confessing History”
This pic was tweeted by a graduate student preparing for an Acton Institute course. Liberals, conservatives, and everyone in-between love Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation.
Jay Green on *Confessing History*
My co-editor Jay Green has jumped into the conversation about our Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation that was prompted by Mark Edwards’s post at Religion in American History, “Is There a Christian Approach to History?” […]
#confessinghistorians
It looks like our Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation is making some waves. There is now a Twitter hashtag called #confessinghistorians. If you want to see some graduate students (and a few others who seem […]
Is the Conference on Faith and History the “Intellectual Arm of the Religious Right?”
I (and I think I speak for my co-editors, Jay Green and Eric Miller) am flattered by the attention our Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation is receiving over at Religion in American History blog. Here […]
The Historical Vocation. The Historical Profession
Great post here from Chris Gehrz at Pietist Schoolman. He writes about his faculty promotion paper on the vocation of the Christian historian and draws on some pretty good stuff, including my colleague Richard Hughes’s The Vocation of the Christian...