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Meanwhile, back at the ranch… (December 31, 2019 ed.)

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…or, Something to keep you busy over the weekend… …or, The Past Fortnight in the Theoblogosphere. It’s been about four months since the last link post , but New Year’s Eve felt like a good time to do another. It was a very busy Fall, professionally speaking. The highlight of it was getting to travel to Hannover, Germany to deliver a public lecture as part of a Ringvorlesung on Karl Barth and politics ( click here to see the brochure ) at the invitation of Marco Hofheinz and the Leibniz Universität Hannover Institute of Theology . So that was a great opportunity and experience, and writing the lecture absorbed a great deal of time and energy. In the meantime, an article that I’ve been working on for a long time made it into print: “Theory and Praxis in Theology ‘after’ Karl Barth: Eberhard Jüngel and Helmut Gollwitzer on Socialism and Solidarity,” International Journal of Public Theology 13 (2019): 432–48 . I gave a version of this paper at AAR a few years back, and I’m gla

My Top 5 Books of 2019

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I read a lot of books in 2019. Here are my top 5. Featured Books:  -Balmer,  Evangelicalism in America -Heschel,  The Insecurity of Freedom: Essays on Human Existence -Hunsinger,  Karl Barth and Radical Politics, 2nd edition -Marable,  Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention -Weinberg & Bealer,  The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug ================================== Follow @WTravisMcMaken Subscribe to Die Evangelischen Theologen