Archives for July 2022

Sunday night odds and ends

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A few things online that caught my attention this week: John Loughery reviews David Kertzer’s The Pope at War: The Secret History of Pius XII, Mussolini, and Hitler Rick Perlstein on the long backlash against teaching progress in public schools […]

Sam Alito get on his high horse in Rome

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I wish Sam Alito would just keep his mouth shut and do his job. Every time he speaks publicly he proves that the Supreme Court is just another political institution. This, it seems, was what John Roberts was worried about […]

Doug Mastriano’s connection with Gab

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What is Gab? It is a right-wing platform used by right-wing extremists. Consider: The shooter in the October 2018 shooting at a Pittsburgh synagogue used Gab to announce his murder of 11 people. In 2020, Gab hosted the accounts of […]

The Author’s Corner with Rebecca Sharpless

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Rebecca Sharpless is Professor of History at Texas Christian University. This interview is based on her new book, Grain and Fire: A History of Baking in the American South (University of North Carolina Press, 2022). JF: What led you to […]

What is popular this week at Current?

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Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “A Savior Will Arise from Gettysburg and His Name Shall Be Mastriano“ Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, “Seeing Bathsheba“ Christina Bieber Lake, “Stranger Things: Not So Strange at All“ John […]

Ronald Sider, 1939-2022

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I just wrote about him today. I am going to need some time to process this before I write anything further. Sider was one of my lodestars. Here is Daniel Silliman at Christianity Today: Ronald J. Sider, organizer of the […]

The Author’s Corner with Andrea McDowell

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Andrea McDowell is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. This interview is based on her new book, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush (Harvard University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write […]

“Postcards from Babylon”

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During the pandemic I participated in this movie. It is now available, at least for the moment, for free. It is worth your time:

Evangelical roundup for July 28, 2022

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What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals on the rise in the Dominican Republic. Michael Wear on abortion politics. Doug Koopman is the new director of the American Studies Program of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. Russell Moore […]

Who is Michael Peroutka?

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He is running for Maryland Attorney General. He also ran for president in 2004 on the Constitution Party ticket. We covered his presidential run in Episode 37 of “A History of Evangelicals and Politics.” The title of this episode is […]