Here is Liz Cheney’s op-ed from las night’s Washington Post: In public statements again this week, former president Donald Trump has repeated his claims that the 2020 election was a fraud and was stolen. His message: I am still the rightful president, […]
Archives for May 2021
René Padilla: Turned in the Direction of a Suffering World
René Padilla’s life reminds us what it means to be whole
Fox News is spreading the “Big Lie.” What will Paul Ryan do about it?
Paul Ryan, the GOP candidate for vice-president in 2012 and former Speaker of the House of Representatives, sits on the Fox Corporation’s board of directors. I’ll let Charlie Sykes takes it from here in a piece titled “Paul Ryan, It’s […]
The DNC is collecting opposition research on potential 2022 GOP candidates, including Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell
Yes, you read that title correctly. Here is Alex Thompson and Daniel Payne at the Politico West Wing playbook: The Democratic National Committee has quietly assembled a core team that is focused not just on the 2022 midterms but on […]
Out of the Zoo: The ones who have taught me everything
Annie Thorn is a senior history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. As part of her internship she writes a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as a history […]
Change over time: A historical look at Liz Cheney’s years in the House of Representatives
It looks like Liz Cheney will lose her leadership position in the GOP caucus because she does not believe Joe Biden stole the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump. The pro-Trump sharks are swarming. The GOP House leadership will not […]
From Super Sewer to City Park
What does redemption look like? An Alabama church offers a glimpse.
The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast will be back later this month!
After a few months of hiatus, The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast will be back in a few weeks with new episodes. Stay tuned! In the meantime, get caught up with past episodes. Our last string of episodes featured: […]
Ah, the memories! Court evangelicals in their natural habitat
Jim Garlow, one of the lesser-known court evangelicals, shared this video today at his public Facebook page. The date was May 3, 2017. I see the following court evangelicals schmoozing with their political savior as the band plays “New York, […]
What evangelicals are saying (and not saying) about Liz Cheney’s recent statements about the 2020 election
CNN gets us up to speed: Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, the No. 3 House Republican, said on Monday her party cannot accept the “poison” of the idea that the 2020 election was stolen and should not “whitewash” the January 6 […]
Images of the Day
As a first-term senator from Delaware, Biden endorsed Jimmy Carter in 1976. Here is Biden and Carter in 1979:
Episode 3: “The Audacity to Hope”
Barack Obama’s pastor is known for three sermons. In this episode, we put them in historical context. Episode 3: “The Audacity to Hope” (our fourth episode) dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative […]
“No, getting vaccinated isn’t like being forced to wear a yellow star”
When it comes to understanding the present, historical analogies can only do so much. For a nice introduction to the use of historical analogies check out Current Managing Editor Jay Green’s essay “Public Reasoning by Historical Analogy: Some Christian Reflections” […]
I can’t stop watching this commercial
I am not a big soccer (football) fan, so I had no idea until recently that Elsley Football Club was not a real team.
Bob Dylan: Still Slipping In and Out of Time
America’s musical phantom turns 80
What happens in a two-party system when one of the parties is delusional?
According to Charles Pierce, “the whole system goes out of balance.” Here is a taste of his Esquire piece on the GOP’s new initiation rite: It appears that the cult driving modern conservatism—and the Republican Party, which is its outward […]
“You can repeal Obamacare from the comfort of your own home”: When the GOP encouraged its members to vote by mail
I found Amy Gardner’s piece at The Washington Post through Tom Sullivan’s post at Hullabaloo. There was once a time when the GOP loved mail-in voting. No more. Here is Gardner: Republican operatives worth their salt remember well the Sunshine […]
Virtually every thing Jack Hibbs says in this video about Washington at Valley Forge is wrong
In the winter of 1777-1778 the Continental Army faced one of its lowest points in the Revolutionary War. British troops under the direction of General William Howe were in control of Philadelphia. George Washington’s soldiers were coming off major defeats […]
Evangelical roundup for May 3, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? Is Trevor Lawrence the next big evangelical Christian sports star? (On a side note, Tim Tebow is trying out for Lawrence’s new team). Asian-American evangelicals speak-up. Today’s blast from the past comes courtesy of Brantley […]
Should We Have Billionaires?
If the modern world rests on a foundation of cooperation, the rules governing wealth should, too