What is happening in Evangelical land? Do evangelicals prioritize power or truth? I guess you need to draw the line somewhere ;-): “[Owen] Strachan stated that ‘I don’t believe in separate races … We’re one human race. That’s what I […]
Archives for November 2021
Bruce Springsteen Is Good for the Soul
In Letter to You, the Boss builds a prophetic community of hope
“A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast comes to Spotify!
A History of Evangelicals and Politics podcast is now available to the general public for free at Spotify and IHeart. (Stitcher and Apple are coming very soon). Episode 0 dropped last night. Current patrons at the Longshore level and above […]
The editors of Current discuss “Elite Evangelicalism”
The Current editors recently got together via ZOOM to discuss the idea of “Elite Evangelicalism.” The conversation is available to Deep Water subscribers of Current. In the course of the hour we talked about the following pieces: Mark Galli, Substack […]
Tweet of the day: “They told us we were electing a president, not a pastor . . . but that president sure did disciple a lot of people”
The changing of the guard continues at WORLD magazine
Earlier this week we covered Marvin Olasky’s resignation as editor of World magazine. The fallout continues. Yesterday Angela LuFulton, World‘s managing editor, announced her resignation. Here is the statement she published on Twitter: As I wrote earlier this week: “To […]
Robert Zimmer and Steven Pinker resign from the University of Austin’s Advisory Board
See my commentary on this new university here and here. Zimmer is chancellor of the University of Chicago. Pinker is the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard. Here is Zimmer’s statement: I was asked to serve in an advisory […]
Episode 27: “Evangelicals Get Passionate About the ‘The Passion of the Christ'”
Hollywood star Mel Gibson releases a movie about the last week of the life of Jesus and it opens a new front in the culture wars. Episode 27: “Evangelicals Get Passionate About the ‘The Passion of the Christ’” dropped last […]
We Can Only Dream Together
Do you want to make America great? Widen the circle.
Is Wawa about to plant a flag in Sheetz country?
Unless you live in Pennsylvania and the surrounding area you probably have no idea what the title of this post means. Get up to speed here: It looks like Wawa is starting to make some inroads into Sheetz country. Here […]
North Dakota bans critical race theory in K-12 schools. How should the state’s history teachers respond?
North Dakota governor Doug Burgum just signed a bill that bans the teaching of critical race theory in K-12 schools. Here are a few of the pertinent sections: Each school district and public school shall ensure instruction of its curriculum […]
Historian David Blight champions teachers; criticizes Democratic Party’s “endless debates over the right language”
Here is the Pulitzer Prize-winner and Frederick Douglass biographer: Blight is also concerned about the current state of the Democratic Party:
WBCN (Boston) and “The American Revolution”
Coming to a PBS station near you:
BOOK MARKS: Grand Ambition
“The great drawback upon the lives of these settlers, at present, is the unfitness of the women for their new lot.”
Former Liberty University fellow and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis helped plan the attempted undoing of the 2020 election
Ellis was a former fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (now Standing for Freedom Center). Here is a taste of Libby Cathey’s piece at ABC News: In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark […]
How to get Current in digest form
Did you know that as a WordPress subscriber to Current you can receive the day’s posts in a digest form? In other words, you can receive one e-mail a day instead of an e-mail for every post we publish at […]
Allen Guelzo on the “dangers” of critical race theory
I am not sure that critical race theory makes the kinds of claims Guelzo says it does in this Washington Post piece. I think his beef is with the historical claims of the 1619 Project, not CRT. Here is a […]
Historian Thomas Kidd leaves Baylor for Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary
I knew Tommy Kidd liked barbecue, but I was not expecting this. Here is the press release: Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary President Jason Allen has announced that historian Thomas S. Kidd will join Midwestern Seminary’s residential faculty as research professor […]
Marvin Olasky is out at World; Al Mohler is in. The age of “compassionate conservatism” is now officially over
The post-Trump differences in American evangelicalism continue to sharpen. Marvin Olasky has edited the evangelical magazine World since 1994. Olasky is best known as the architect of George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism.” On November 1, 2021, Olasky resigned from the […]
Evangelical roundup for November 15, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Liberty University seeks gag order for former VP of Communications. Jerry Falwell Jr. reinstates his lawsuit against Liberty University. Two Jane Does in the Liberty University sex abuse lawsuit speak: In the midst of […]