61.23% of Vermonters are fully vaccinated. Here is Erin Doherty at Axios: Vermont’s progress on vaccinating the eligible population comes as nationwide vaccination rates continue to wane. While the country was averaging about 1 million vaccines administered per day over […]
Archives for June 2021
What I learned this weekend
It was good to get back to conferences this weekend. I forgot how much there is to learn through attending conferences and how much face-to-face engagement is so much more effective at stimulating thinking than ZOOM events. On Thursday I […]
Who is Michael Lind?
Over at New York Magazine, Eric Levitz reviews the work of public intellectual Michael Lind. The piece is much more nuanced than its title. Here is a taste of “The Delusions of the Radical Centrist”: …Michael Lind, has long been […]
Evangelical roundup for June 14, 2021 (Southern Baptist Convention edition)
What is going on in Evangelicalland? The Southern Baptists are converging on Nashville this week. Here are some links to help you put the annual meeting in context: Sarah Pulliam Bailey has a helpful piece on what is at stake. […]
Southern Baptists Can’t Shake Their Past
At this week’s annual meeting of the Southern Baptist Convention, the tortured state of American conservatism is on full display
Episode 84: How “Biblical Womanhood” Became Gospel Truth
After a several month hiatus, The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast is back with new episodes. We have some incredible guests lined-up this summer! In this Episode 84 we talk to historian Beth Allison Barr about her book The Making […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Katie Ladecky Molly Worthen on how to “dial down” the political hatred Three writers review Ariel Ron’s, Grassroots Leviathan: Agricultural Reform and the Rural North in the Slaveholding Republic An […]
Will the next president of the Southern Baptist Convention be Mike Stone or the left-leaning compromiser Albert Mohler?
The guy in the video below wants Mike Stone to be the next president: Yes, THIS Mike Stone. Meanwhile, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler seems to be running as the leftist candidate. 🙂 Stay tuned.
Stolen Valor and the American Persecution Complex
What do contemporary Christians living in America have to learn from Christians around the world experiencing actual persecution?
What is popular at Current this week?
Here are the most popular Current features this week Randall Balmer, Who Killed Evangelicalism? John Fea, An Open Letter to American History Teachers: Stop Teaching “Critical Race Theory” Rachel Stone, Amy Coney Barret and the Cult of Fecundity Thomas Mackaman, […]
Museums Matter
Art museums are reopening. Here’s why you should visit one.
The Biden administration is framing health as a matter of personal choice. Why this is a bad idea.
I drove through four states yesterday. I didn’t get out of the car much, but when I did make stops I didn’t see many masks. When I got to my hotel I read Ed Yong’s piece at The Atlantic. Here […]
Evangelical roundup for June 10, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? A former evangelical governor of Tennessee on how to fix evangelical Trumpism Eric Metaxas appeared on the Mike Huckabee show. He is still talking about getting kicked-off YouTube: The murder of the spouse of […]
Biden administration says it wants to defend religious exemptions for schools
This is big news on the religious liberty front. I’m on the road, but hope to return to this story in the coming days. Here is Michelle Boorstein at The Washington Post: The Justice Department in a new court filing […]
A Billy Graham Even Liberals Can Love
In the new PBS film, politics is the defining element in Graham’s life. Was it?
The four Americas
Geroge Packer identifies four national narratives in his recent piece at The Atlantic titled “How America is Fractured Into Four Parts.” I am sure I will be talking more about this piece in the future. “Free America” draws on “libertarian […]
Song of the Day
“…Then I’m gonna go out walking.”
Biden ends talks with GOP on infrastructure
Here is Politico: Bipartisan infrastructure talks between President Joe Biden and GOP Sen. Shelley Moore Capito are over, and the White House will now focus on working with a bipartisan group of 20 senators. Biden and Capito spoke for five […]
Mark your calendars! Current‘s first Deep Water patrons gathering is June 16th
Our first special event for Current Deep Water subscribers will be held from 8:00-9:30 ET on Wednesday, June 16, 2021. Look for the ZOOM link early next week. If you are Deep Water patron, join us for an informal conversation […]
The GOP is an illiberal party
Here is Lee Drutman, a fellow at New America: As a system of government, democracy has proven quite long-lasting in the United States, though it has evolved and changed considerably since its 1789 vintage. A good part of the reason […]