The president’s commitment to human dignity is starting to ring hollow in my ears
Archives for March 2022
What is going on at Oklahoma Christian University?
A graphic design professor who taught at the school for more than 40 years was fired for bringing a gay speaker to campus. The speaker was an Oklahoma Christian University alumnus. Professor Michael O’Keefe invited the speaker to his “The […]
What the chair of the Grove City College Board of Trustees believes about diversity, inclusion, and equity
Some of you have been following the discussion of critical race theory and “wokeness” at Grove City College. If you haven’t, get up to speed here and here and here and here. Let’s go back to the February 16, 2022 […]
Wheaton College celebrates Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind
More Christian colleges need to have conversations like this. This event celebrates the new edition of the book.
Eric Metaxas chides Tim Keller for reading too much (and other evidence of the scandal of the evangelical mind)
If you want to see Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind at work, watch Eric Metaxas’s interview with Lucas Miles at the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters. Lucas is the author of a book titled The Christian […]
Mia Bay and Mae Ngai win the Bancroft Prize
It is American history’s most prestigious award. Here is Jennifer Schuesller at The New York Times: An innovative study of Black Americans’ struggle against discrimination in transportation and a sweeping examination of Chinese migration to goldfields across the Anglophone world […]
Evangelical roundup for March 17, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Deconstructing Bruxy Evangelical climate scientist Katherine Hayhoe on the United Nations’ climate report. Pat Robertson calls for a nuclear strike on Russia. It seems as if Tony Perkins and the Family Research Council are […]
Dreams of Democracy
In the midst of autocratic threat, vision sharpens
I guess this is one way of opposing Putin
From the city of Plano, TX: Thanks to Shane Claiborne for posting this on Twitter.
If Trump runs in 2024, he will do it without Pence
Here is David Drucker at the Washington Examiner: Former President Donald Trump is effectively ruling out tapping former Vice President Mike Pence as his running mate should he mount a third White House bid in 2024 and win the Republican […]
Idaho Lt. Governor tries to defend her appearance at a white nationalist conference
Idaho Lt. Governor Janice McGeachin is running for governor. Some of you may remember her May 2021 stunt when she tried to impose a mask ban while the Idaho governor, Brad Little, was out of the state. Some of you […]
David Bromwich on the state of the university
Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Len Gutkin interviews Yale English professor David Bromwich on the state of higher education. The interview comes on the thirtieth anniversary of Bromwich’s Politics by Other Means: Higher Education and Group Thinking. Bromwich […]
More books to help us understand the Russia-Ukraine war
Harvard University Press offers seven: Stanislav Aseyev, In Isolation: Dispatches from Occupied Donbas Volodymyr Rafeyenko, Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love Serhii Plokhy, The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present Yuri Kostenko, Ukraine’s Nuclear Disarmament: A History Karel C. […]
Mark Galli responds to sexual harassment charges
We covered this last night. Here is Galli’s response to Christianity Today‘s reporting: By now you may have read about the turmoil at Christianity Today regarding charges of sexual harassment in recent years. I’m featured in a story as a […]
Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky speaks to Congress
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Salon covers Hillsdale College’s outsized influence on K-12 education
Yesterday the left-leaning Salon stated a three-part series on Hillsdale College’s influence on local school boards. Here is a taste of Part 1: The mood in Costa Mesa on Feb. 2 was more love bomb than fire bomb: yet another […]
Avoid War
History—especially modern history—underscores the limits of force
Former Christianity Today editor Mark Galli accused of sexual harassment
Daniel Silliman, a news editor at Christianity Today, broke this story this afternoon. According to Bob Smietana’s reporting at Religion News Service, Silliman’s reporting had the full blessing of the Christianity Today leadership. Here is a taste of Silliman’s piece: […]
Jonathan Franzen understands 1970s Christian youth culture
I finished Jonathan Franzen’s novel Crossroads over the weekend. I don’t read too much fiction, but this was a book I couldn’t put down. Perhaps I will write a review of it when I get the time, but for now […]
The Author’s Corner with Steven K. Green
Steven K. Green is Fred H. Paulus Professor of Law and Director of the Center for Religion, Law and Democracy at Willamette University. This interview is based on his new book, Separating Church and State: A History (Cornell University Press, […]