A satisfied Christian Right comes behind their “anointed” candidate Episode 34: “The 2004 Republican Convention: Part Two” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here is a teaser: If […]
Archives for February 2022
The Author’s Corner with Stefano Villani
Stefano Villani is Professor of Early Modern European History at the University of Maryland. This interview is based on his new book, Making Italy Anglican: Why the Book of Common Prayer Was Translated into Italian (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF: […]
Evangelical roundup for February 10, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Thabiti Anywabwile is no longer an evangelical. This guy has a few things to say about it: Wayne Grudem is lecturing in a “Women of Momentum” series: Also this: How social justice and CRT […]
The latest from Archivegate
It turns out that a box of stuff Trump took to Mar-a-Lago after his presidency contained classified material. Here is Reid J. Epstein and Michael S. Schmidt’s reporting at The New York Times: The National Archives and Records Administration discovered […]
The President Lacks a “Sense of Urgency and Outrage”
The second of a two-part series on how the Christian Right fell in love with and then started to sour on George W. Bush
The Author’s Corner with Adam Jortner
Adam Jortner is Goodwin-Philpott Eminent Professor of Religion in the Department of History at Auburn University. This interview is based on his new book, No Place for Saints: Mobs and Mormons in Jacksonian America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: […]
How ABC and the “Miracle on Ice” shaped Olympic television coverage
Here is a taste of Bruce Berglund‘s fascinating piece at The Washington Post: The 1980 Lake Placid games changed everything. In the lead-up to the Games, the preview issue of Sports Illustrated had a vastly different look, starting with the […]
The Superior Bowl (Super Bowl commercial spoiler alert!!)
This beer ad, scheduled to run during the Super Bowl, includes Serena Williams (women’s tennis), Peyton Manning (NFL Hall of Famer), Jimmy Butler (NBA), Nneka Ogwumike (WNBA), Brooks Koepka (pro golf) and Alex Morgan (women’s soccer). It also stars actor […]
“The moral arc of the universe not only bends toward justice, but takes an occasional twist toward irony as well”
The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia will decide the fate of Richmond’s Robert E. Lee monument. Here is Michael Paul Williams at Richmond.com: The prophesy that John Mitchell Jr. issued about the Robert E. Lee monument continues […]
How two Illinois history teachers are using Twitter in the classroom
Robert Seidel Jr. and Kurt Weisenburger of Barrington (IL) High School offer some helpful tips. Here is a taste of their piece at Zocalo Public Square: For most teachers, social media has no place in a classroom. When they do use […]
Woke Catholicisms
Pining for the ideological uniformity of the past does little to address the institutional needs of the present
Trump needs to face the facts. He lost.
Recently Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, a Trump supporter, said that the former president needs to stop wasting our time with claims that he won the 2020 election. But Trump won’t let it go. As Peter Wehner writes in The […]
The collapse of Charlie Kirk’s “America-first” academy
Pro-Trump pundit Charlie Kirk, the president of the right-wing Turning Point USA, wanted to start an academy to educate K-12 students in “America first” principles. But its major funder abandoned ship after it got a look at the curriculum. Apparently […]
How Hillsdale College, the “champion of American exceptionalism,” is shaping civics education in Tennessee
In November 2020, then president Donald Trump announced his 1776 Commission, a commission charged with delivering a conservative alternative to The New York Times 1619 Project. There were no American historians on the commission, but there was plenty of room […]
Bringing the Bible to the Jim Crow South
In 1900, Henry Nelson Payne, a missionary and president of Mary Holmes Seminary in West Point, Mississippi, a school for Black women, was frustrated that many Bible societies in the former Confederacy were not willing to distribute Bibles to African […]
The Author’s Corner with Daniel Silliman
Daniel Silliman is News Editor for Christianity Today. This interview is based on his new book, Reading Evangelicals: How Christian Fiction Shaped a Culture and a Faith (Eerdmans, 2021). JF: What led you to write Reading Evangelicals? DS: The book had […]
LONG FORM: Tech Uncovers a Multitude of Sins
Can the perfect attention our devices seek from us be turned in better directions?
Albert Mohler responds to David Brooks’ essay on evangelical reformers
Writing at WORLD magazine, the latest imperial conquest of the fundamentalist fiefdom over which he presides, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler has responded to David Brooks’s recent New York Times piece on evangelical dissenters. Let’s break it down: […]
The Author’s Corner with Jeffrey Perry
Jeffrey Perry is Assistant Professor of History at Tusculum University. This interview is based on his new book, Law in American Meetinghouses: Church Discipline and Civil Authority in Kentucky, 1780-1845 (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to […]
Evangelical roundup for February 7, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Francis Collins says the “culture war is literally killing people.” He adds, “I am just basically heartbroken in a circumstance where, as an answer to prayer, vaccines have been developed that turned out to […]