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Archives for April 2021
Complexity Training
After a year that defies comprehension, how do we achieve a proportional response?
Biden approval rating at 59%
According to Pew Research. 93% of Democrats approve of the way Biden is handling his job as president. 18% of Republicans approve. Biden’s approval rate is soaring among African Americans, Hispanics, Asian-Americans, educated people. 72% of Americans, including a majority […]
Three history blogs that I wish would come back
Religion in American History: I was the first contributor to this blog who was not named Paul Harvey. The blog is still there, but the last post was published on November 15, 2019. The Junto: It was once a go-to […]
National Endowment for the Humanities announces its latest round of grants
Here are a few that caught my eye: University of Arkansas, Little Rock Outright: $325,043[Humanities Collections and Reference Resources]Project Director: Deborah BaldwinProject Title: Mapping Urban Fracture: Charting the Context and Consequence of the Little Rock Central High CrisisProject Description: The […]
Song of the Day
“And a time to every purpose under heaven“:
CNN does a documentary on an evangelical anti-vaxxer
CNN’s Elle Reeve apparently wanted to do a story on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine. So she went to Tony Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This is what she came up with: A few thoughts: The fact […]
Most popular posts of the last week
Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Evangelical theologian John Piper’s son is a TikTok sensation Russell Moore: Young evangelicals are walking away because the church itself does not believe […]
Mike Huckabee and Mike Pompeo join Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center (formerly Falkirk Center)
Charlie Kirk and Sebastian Gorka are out. Huckabee and Pompeo are in. Here is Kate Andrews at Virginia Business: Liberty University’s newly renamed think tank, the Standing for Freedom Center, has announced a slate of five new fellows, including former […]
The Equality Act and the Claims of Justice
The Equality Act promises justice. For some religious communities, it threatens the opposite.
Mike Pence also has a policy organization
Yesterday we called your attention to Donald Trump’s America First Policy Institute. Former court evangelical Paula White will head the “Center for American Values” wing of his new institute. Today I learned about Mike Pence’s “Advancing American Freedom.” Pence’s advisory […]
Russell Moore: Young evangelicals are walking away because the church itself does not believe what the church teaches
This is Russell Moore at his best: Many of us have observed, anecdotally, a hemorrhaging of younger evangelicals from churches and institutions in recent years. What seems different about this quiet exodus is that the departures are heightened not among […]
The National Archives are still waiting for some of Trump’s rally speeches
One would think that Donald Trump, with all his bombast and appeals to his own greatness, would rush to get his rally speeches into the National Archives. His presidency was YUUUUUGE. Wouldn’t he want future historians to have a complete […]
“Much of what we know about the domestic slave trade…in the United States is wrong”
Here is University of Alabama historian Joshua Rothman: Much of what we think we know about the domestic slave trade and domestic traders of enslaved people in the United States is wrong. To the extent most Americans think about the […]
Evangelical Roundup for April 15, 2021
I am experimenting with a new feature here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. Let’s call it the “Evangelical Roundup.” I am building here off of my Trump-era court evangelical roundups. We will see how it goes. Eric Metaxas […]
The Author’s Corner with James Byrd
James Byrd is Professor of American Religious History, Chair of the Graduate Department of Religion and Associate Dean for Graduate Education and Research at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. This interview is based on his new book, A Holy Baptism of […]
The Lincoln Way
In our conflicts over abortion, Abraham Lincoln’s approach to slavery offers a path forward
Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation to expand the Supreme Court
Biden is studying it, but Congress is acting. Here is Sahil Kapur at NBC News: Congressional Democrats will introduce legislation Thursday to expand the Supreme Court from nine to 13 justices, joining progressive activists pushing to transform the court. The […]
Trey Falwell is out at Liberty University
Here is Brandon Abroosino and Michael Stratford at Politico: The son of Jerry Falwell Jr. is out of his job as vice president at Liberty University nearly eight months after his father resigned as president of the Christian school amid […]
Paula White will lead Donald Trump’s new “Center for American Values”
Yesterday Axios reported that the remnants of the Donald Trump administration will start something called the “America First Policy Institute.” Readers of this blog might be interested in learning that former court evangelical Paula White-Cain will head the new institute’s […]