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Archives for September 2021

Evangelical roundup for September 30, 2021

John Fea   |  September 30, 2021

What is happening in Evangelical land: Ed Stetzer on evangelicals and race. This is particularly rich. Pro-Trumpers David “I do honest journalism” Brody and David Kubal are talking about how the government is using the church to accomplish its ends. […]

Episode 22: “The Senate Conducts Hearings on Marriage: Part 1”

John Fea   |  September 30, 2021

Three Senate subcommittees hold hearings on the institution of marriage. Episode 22: “The Senate Conducts Hearings on Marriage: Part 1” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: Listen to […]

Pricing Human Life

Nadya Williams   |  September 30, 2021

A late antique bishop forces a rethinking of the Texas abortion law

“Fearless” early American and Mormon historian Richard Bushman turns 90

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Trent Toone of Deseret News caught up with the author of books such as From Puritan to Yankee: Character and Social Order in Connecticut, 1690-1765 (1967); King and People in Provincial Massachusetts (1985); The Refinement of America (1993); Joseph Smith: […]

Song of the day

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Story-telling at its best:

Albert Raboteau, RIP

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Princeton University religion professor Albert Raboteau‘s book Slave Religion was the first book I ever read on the history of the religion and the African American experience. Here is Adelle Banks at Religion News Service: Albert J. Raboteau, an American […]

Vaccination mandates have a long history. Backlash to vaccination mandates have a long history.

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Good to see Andrew Wehrman cited in Maggie Astor’s New York Times piece. A taste: Professor Wehrman this week tweeted an example of what, in an interview, he said was a “ubiquitous” phenomenon: The health board in Urbana, Ohio, Jordan’s hometown, enacted […]

How many people died because we failed to take seriously the lessons of the past?

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

COVID-19 is now the deadliest pandemic in U.S. history. Here is Elizabeth Gamillo at Smithsonian Magazine: The coronavirus pandemic has become the deadliest disease outbreak in recent American history with tolls surpassing the estimated deaths of the 1918 flu. According to […]

The long history of medical misinformation

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Historian Nicole Hemmer writes, “the deliberate spread of demonstrably untrue claims for politics or profit has been a feature of life in the US throughout the nation’s history. From patent medicine to fluoride conspiracies to false claims about the health […]

A Creed for the Credulous

Courtney J. P. Friesen   |  September 29, 2021

A stubborn and costly credulity among Christians has deep roots

Remembering Bob Gorinski

John Fea   |  September 28, 2021

This summer I remembered my friend Bob Gorinski. Yesterday my local paper, the Carlisle Sentinel, remembered him. Here is a taste of Tim Gross’s piece: On the surface, Robert “Bob” Walter Gorinski, 44, of Mechanicsburg practiced physical therapy, trained hundreds […]

New York Governor Kathy Hochul visits an evangelical megachurch

John Fea   |  September 28, 2021

Hochul, a Roman Catholic, spoke about crime, race, education, and COVID-19 vaccines at the Christian Cultural Center in Brooklyn. The pastor of the Center is A.R. Bernard, an early member of Donald Trump evangelical advisory council who left the group […]

America’s Low-Wage Earners

Timothy Larsen   |  September 28, 2021

Twenty years on, Nickel and Dimed still reveals our blindness—and its author’s as well

Are you subscribing to CURRENT?

John Fea   |  September 27, 2021

We hope so. As we approach our six-month anniversary, we are still working hard to deliver quality content to our readers and subscribers. I am not sure we realized how much work goes into a daily platform of this nature, […]

When a pest control service technician reviews your book

John Fea   |  September 27, 2021

Occasionally an author finds a review that he has not seen before, but rarely is it written by a service technician from a pest control company! This is from the September 30, 2018 edition of The Manhattan (KS) Mercury: Thanks, […]

Allen Guelzo on how to tell the story of Robert E. Lee

John Fea   |  September 27, 2021

One of our generation’s best historians of the Civil War is the author of the forthcoming Robert E. Lee: A Life. In a recent piece at The New York Times, Allen Guelzo writes about the challenges of writing a biography […]

The Author’s Corner with Eric Smith

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 27, 2021

Eric Smith is Senior Pastor of Sharon Baptist Church and Adjunct Professor of Historical Theology at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. This interview is based on his new book, John Leland: A Jeffersonian Baptist in Early America (Oxford University Press, […]

Evangelical roundup for September 27, 2021

John Fea   |  September 27, 2021

What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are responsible for the microchip in the vaccine theory. Evangelical politicians in action: Jesus will return if you just give more money. Agreed: Jonathan Merritt reviews “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” Eric Metaxas […]

The Passion of Britney Spears

Daniel N. Gullotta   |  September 27, 2021

Change has been one of the few constants in the pop star’s meandering religious odyssey. What does it all mean?

Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  September 26, 2021

A few things online that caught my attention this week: How moderates and progressives can come together on spending How personal responsibility evolved into selfishness Jonathan Den Hartog reviews Tracy McKenzie’s We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future […]

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