Of course they did. But now there is a study. Here is Eric. W. Dolan at PsyPost: New research sheds light on how people resolve inconsistencies between their own moral views and that of their preferred candidate. The findings, published […]
Archives for January 2022
Faculty respond to the “great faculty disengagement”
Earlier this month we called your attention to what Kevin R. McClure and Alisa Hicklin Fryar called “The Great Faculty Disengagement.” Since the McClure and Fryar’s piece appeared at The Chronicle of Education, the Chronicle has been collecting faculty responses […]
Evangelical roundup for January 31, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Former World Relief employee says the relief agency rescinded his job offer because he is in a same-sex marriage. We will see what happens here, but World Relief, as a religious organization, should have […]
Culture Wars: Squirrel Edition
Tales from the frontline of interspecies conflict
Nils Lofgren is the latest to pull his music from Spotify
The E Street Band guitar player joins Neil Young and Joni Mitchell. Here is The Washington Post: A controversy over coronavirus misinformation on Spotify is heating up, with a handful of musicians this weekend joining Neil Young insaying they want their music […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Three major voices behind the national conservative movement Who tells our story? Previewing the 2022 meeting of the Conference on Faith and History Mapping redlining An interesting take on the […]
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I hope you have been enjoying Current. Our editors and staff are working hard to deliver engaging daily feature articles, timely opinion, and curated content. When you get a chance check out our new masthead. Here is how is you […]
Lindsey Graham on a potential Biden Supreme Court pick: “Put me in the camp of making sure the court and other institutions look like America”
Good for Lindsey. Here is Quint Forgey at Politico: Sen. Lindsey Graham on Sunday broke with several of his Republican colleagues by seemingly expressing support for President Joe Biden’s pledge to nominate the first-ever Black woman to the Supreme Court. […]
Saturday Night Live sketch of the day
Peyton Manning stole the show:
Do you have your Trump coin yet?
One of these Make America Great Again coins could be yours for free (plus $9.99 shipping and handling). Just to be clear, these coins are different from the Trump King Cyrus coins that court evangelical prophet Lance Wallnau was hawking […]
The latest threat to Joe Biden’s life came from a Kansas man on a mission from God to “lop off the head of the serpent in the heart of the nation”
Here is Justin Rohrlich at The Daily Beast: A Kansas man claiming he had been told by God to travel to Washington, D.C., to “lop off the head of the serpent in the heart of the nation” has been charged […]
Ohio Senate candidate Josh Mandel does not believe in the separation of church and state
In a recent debate between Ohio U.S. Senate candidates Morgan Harper (D) and Josh Mandel (R), the question of the separation of church and state came up. Watch: Here is Mandel’s answer in writing: I do not believe in the […]
Report: Tom Brady is calling it quits
Adam Schefter of ESPN reports. Just putting it out there.
Richard Dunn, RIP
My scholarly genealogy runs through Richard S. Dunn. I was a student of one of his students. I guess you could say he was my scholarly grandfather. I first met Richard Dunn in 1995 at the first Omohundro Institute for […]
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The latest from the Randall Stephens Collection
It’s been a while since we posted something from the Randall Stephens Collection. This is the latest from the historian baseball card series. Who is Perry Miller? Read more about him here.
How Americans have remembered the July 1776 toppling of the George III statue in Bowling Green (Manhattan)
Wendy Bellion, an art historian at the University of Delaware, has an interesting piece at Smithsonian Magazine on the patriots’ toppling of this statue and a New York Historical Society exhibit on monuments. Here is a taste: A monument to […]
Whitworth University has a new president
The Christian college in Spokane has hired current interim president Scott McQuiklin. It looks like he has spent some time in my current neck of the woods (Penn State). Here is the press release: The Whitworth University Board of Trustees […]
A new “historical assessment” of the Trump presidency appears to say very little about evangelicals
I am a big fan of Julian Zelizer‘s work. He appeared on an episode of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast to talk about his co-authored book Fault Lines. I am also eager to read his recent book on […]
The Georgia Historical Society reopens with major upgrades
The Georgia Historical Society research center just reopened after a $5 million upgrade. This looks like great news for researchers and historians of Georgia. Here is a taste of Benjamin Payne’s piece at The Current: The Georgia Historical Society’s research […]