2016 Workshop Talk | 0:58:40 | Culture & Faith
Summary
A church’s bulletin is “excellent for cementing the thought of the people to the church,” claimed a leading church administrator in the early twentieth century. American Protestants in this era deploy small-time Hearsts and Pulitzers to ink and turn the drums of their new mimeograph or multigraph duplicators. They produced bulletins, calendars, newsletters, fliers and form letters, and transformed church life in the process. Protestants began forming the bonds of fellowship less around the familiar face-to-face exchanges of their Sunday gatherings„hearing sermons, singing hymns, praying together, and other ritual acts of fellowship„and more around the circulation of print. This presentation delivers original research that sheds new light on American church life in the early twentieth century. This was the era of the mimeograph, a time that witnessed the rise of prohibition, modernism, fundamentalism, and womenÍs ordination. This presentation reminds us that history is not driven by ideas alone, and that there is more to a church than its theology.
Speaker
Christopher Schlect, PhD, has worked in classical and Christian education for over 25 years. As fellow of history at New Saint Andrews College, he teaches courses in ancient and medieval civilizations, U.S. history, American Christianity, medieval education, and classical rhetoric, among other subjects. He has also taught introductory and advanced courses in U.S. history and ancient Rome at Washington State University. He is the director of New Saint Andrews College’s graduate program in classical and Christian studies. He taught history and Bible at Logos School in Moscow, Idaho, for many years, and he serves classical and Christian schools around the country through his consulting and teacher training activities. His published writings appear in various school curricula and other outlets.
Additional Materials
The Association of Classical & Christian Schools presents Repairing the Ruins, the ACCS annual conference, copyright ACCS. You may make additional copies of this recording for use by your school but please do not sell any copies of the recording, or post it on the internet.
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