Here is Fareed Zakaria’s weekly column at The Washington Post: The Republican Party’s decision (in effect) to excommunicate Rep. Liz Cheney (Wyo.) is a watershed event. It marks the final transformation of the party from an ideologically driven enterprise to one that […]
Archives for May 2021
Let it rain: Beth Allison Barr on Al Mohler, women’s ordination, and the Southern Baptist Convention
Beth Allison Barr, the author of The Making of Biblical Womanhood: How the Subjugation of Women Became Gospel Truth, has a message for Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler and the rest of the Southern Baptist leadership going crazy […]
On the new CDC guidelines
I am glad to learn that I no longer need to wear a mask in most public settings. (I will wear one to my dentist appointment today). This is great news–a sign that we are finally turning a corner. Pennsylvania […]
Most popular posts of the last week
Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home; Rick Warren’s church ordains three women. Albert Mohler and the rest of the Southern Baptists are not happy Seven Mountain Dominionism at the […]
Liz Cheney is not going down without a fight
Here is her first interview with Fox News since she was ousted from her leadership position on Wednesday:
D.C. DISPATCH: Hacks for Jesus
In an age of ideological division, activist Greg Williams makes a case for holy partisanship
Most critics of critical race theory have no idea what they are talking about
I linked to David Theo Goldberg‘s Boston Review piece on critical race theory in last weekend’s odds and ends, but I think the piece is worth a separate post. I am convinced that most of the conservatives afraid of critical […]
Allen Guelzo defines the “Lost Cause” of the Confederacy
The noted Civil War historian Allen Guelzo offers a nice working definition of the “Lost Cause” in a piece at The Gospel Coalition. He writes: “In its fullest flower, from 1865 to 1915, the Lost Cause emerged—from a legion of […]
What did anti-1619 Project U.S. senators learn about race from their school textbooks?
The Root just published excerpts of U.S. history textbooks used in schools attended by the thirty-eight Republican senators, including majority leader Mitch McConnell, who recently signed a letter criticizing the New York Times 1619 Project and critical race theory. Here […]
Amitai Etzioni on why Donald Trump continues to have political power
Here is the communitarian intellectual Etzioni at National Interest: Millions of Americans who still support Trump see themselves as a persecuted White minority. They hear from right-wing news outlets that demographic trends dictate that the United States is on its […]
Evangelical roundup for May 13, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? This Rick Warren controversy is not going away: Just the Bible! For Criswell, that same Bible taught segregation of the races. I wonder if these guys would die for their belief that women do […]
White Christian Nationalism vs. American Civil Religion
Dueling historical narratives have long been at work in our midst. Only one is on the side of the angels.
Kevin McCarthy: “I don’t think anybody is questioning the legitimacy of the presidential election”
The GOP House minority leader can’t be serious. Here is Paul Kane at The Washington Post: House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) on Wednesday took a head-spinning tour through Washington. First, he oversaw the roughly 20-minute meeting of House Republicans […]
Liz Cheney is out. What are her GOP “colleagues” saying?
Earlier today, the House GOP caucus stripped Liz Cheney of her leadership position because she refused to believe the Big Lie. Let’s see what GOP Republicans are saying about this: GOP unity around a lie: And from the GOP frat […]
“A normal tourist visit”
Andrew Clyde represents Georgia’s 9th congressional district. He holds the seat previously held by Doug Collins. Watch Clyde at today’s congressional hearing on the January 6, 2021 insurrection: Is THIS a normal tourist visit?: Remember this:
Back on the road this summer!
I am finally getting back on the road next month! On June 10, 2021 I will be in Nashville for the Christian Scholars Conference at David Lipscomb University. I will join Randall Balmer and Molly Worthen on a plenary panel […]
Josh Hawley’s path to the insurrection
Josh Hawley, the Missouri senator who once had the support of liberal Republican John Danforth, is now the poster-boy for the far-right Republican Party. In this longform piece at The Washington Post, Michael Kranish chronicles how Hawley ascended to such […]
“If you stand for nothing Burr, what’ll you fall for?”
Today’s GOP may want to listen to this Hamilton classic:
Secession is not a new idea
Here is historian Alan Taylor at The Washington Post: In our polarized times, talk of secession blooms on the losing side of bitterly contested national elections. After the 2016 election, some liberal Californians proposed a referendum to seek independence. Last December in […]
Judson College closes
Judson College, an Alabama Baptist women’s college and a member of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities, has closed. Here is Inside Higher Ed: After teetering on the edge of closure for months, Judson College’s Board of Trustees voted […]