Intellectual integrity requires a different politics from what the Kansas GOP has on offer
Archives for October 2021
Evangelical roundup for October 4, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land: Two Rhode Island evangelicals talk race. The CCCU is hiring: Mark Driscoll on demonic “critical theory” and the “woke, joke, folk”: World magazine teams-up with Southern Baptists Al Mohler and Andrew Walker to create […]
The Limits of Equity
The pursuit of equity threatens to inflame divisions. Equality promises a better way.
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What is scholarship does not have political relevance? What happened to a Brooklyn high school basketball star and novelist? Alan Jacobs reviews Jonathan Franzen’s new novel. The Claremont Institute is […]
Is it possible to respond to Greg Laurie’s invitation to accept Jesus tonight at Angel Stadium without also joining a political movement?Â
Thousands of Christians and their unbelieving friends will file into Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Sunday for Greg Laurie’s Southern California Harvest Crusade. They will be hoping for a good-old fashioned revival. Laurie is the pastor of Harvest Christian […]
Episode 92: “Original Sin and the History of American Democracy”
Our guest in this episode is historian Robert Tracy McKenzie, author of We the Fallen the People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy. In the spirit of the 20th-century theologian and ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr, McKenzie places the Christian doctrine of […]
If you want to get a sense of how many white evangelicals understand American history, check out megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs’s Facebook page
We have written about Hibbs before. He is the vaccine mandate-hating, Larry Elder-loving, pro-Trumper who pastors Calvary Chapel in Chino Hills, California. Over the last several years, Hibbs seems to have become a bit of a history buff. In a […]
What is popular this week at CURRENT?
Here are the most popular Current features of the last week: Daniel K. Williams, “How the Party of the College Educated Became the Party Opposed to College” Courtney J.P. Friesen, “A Creed for the Credulous” Daniel N. Gullotta, “The Passion of […]
David Brooks on why we need to spend $ 4 trillion
Here is a taste of his New York Times column: The Democratic spending bills are economic packages that serve moral and cultural purposes. They should be measured by their cultural impact, not merely by some wonky analysis. In real, tangible […]
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Are you a writer looking for an outlet for your work? Current is looking for thoughtful writers and intellectuals to submit 800-1200 word pieces for our daily features section. Our editors are interested in reading completed essays and short pitches. […]
Joe Manchin takes his stand on the Hyde Amendment
West Virginia’s Democratic Senator Joe Manchin believes that the United States government should not be in the business of funding abortions. Manchin has made it clear that he will not support Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “Build Back Better” plan because […]
Aspire to Be an Accountant?
The world needs accountants, businesspeople, doctors and nurses, engineers, and physical therapists. But we also need professionally-trained men and women who know how to engage the world in a thoughtful and responsible way.Â