Archives for November 2022

The University of Austin is taking shape

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Roughly one year ago a group of intellectuals concerned with academic freedom founded the University of Austin. We covered its launch here and here and here. Much of the criticism that the University of Austin faced when it launched was […]

More on Doug Mastriano’s Anabaptist Connections

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Bonnie Kristian, author of the recent Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community, has a well-researched piece at New York Times on Doug Mastriano’s connection to a conservative Mennonite church. Here is a […]

What is popular this week at Current?

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Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog:

The Author’s Corner with Catherine V. Bateson

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Catherine V. Bateson is Associate Lecturer of American History and American Studies Chief Examiner at the University of Kent. This interview is based on her new book, Irish American Civil War Songs: Identity, Loyalty, and Nationhood (LSU Press, 2022). JF: […]

The Author’s Corner with Ahmed White

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Ahmed White is Nicholas Rosenbaum Professor of Law at the University of Colorado Boulder Law School. This interview is based on his new book, Under the Iron Heel: The Wobblies and the Capitalist War on Radical Workers (University of California Press, 2022). JF: […]

Evangelical roundup for November 3, 2022

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What is happening in Evangelical land? Some evangelicals support political violence. How a Moody Bible Institute graduate changed his mind about Black Lives Matter. Tim Keller’s new book: Peter Wehner talks about his opposition to Trump. Truth: RIP: Blast from […]

What is going on at Calvin University?

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Here is Yonat Shimron at Religion News Service: Calvin University’s board of trustees has allowed a group of faculty members to dissent from a clause in a confession of faith that regards sex outside of heterosexual marriage as sinful, thus […]

Springsteen’s Nebraska at 40

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Well, now everything dies, baby, that’s a fact But maybe everything that dies someday comes back Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty And meet me tonight in Atlantic City –Springsteen, “Atlantic City,” Nebraska, 1982 Here is a […]

Springsteen talks to Howard Stern

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Here are some clips: On the changing music scene and Taylor Swift’s new album: Bruce talks about the Clarence Clemons solo, the piano opening in “Jungleland,” and writing Born to Run and Thunder Road on a piano: The Rising: Bruce […]

The Author’s Corner with Evan C. Rothera

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Evan C. Rothera is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith. This interview is based on his new book, Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880 (LSU Press, 2022). […]

The new Billy Graham archive will open this month

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It looks like it will be a professional archive that will gather “the full documentary record” of Graham’s life and work. Here is Daniel Silliman at Christianity Today: When he watched Billy Graham preach, David Bruce couldn’t help but think […]

How do evangelicals understand “Christian nationalism?”

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Daniel Silliman has some nice reporting on this at Christianity Today. A taste: Caleb Campbell didn’t know he needed the term Christian nationalism. He’d heard it, here and there, but it hadn’t really registered. It was at the edge of his […]

William Tecumseh Sherman: emancipator of the enslaved

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Here is historian Bennett Parten at Zocalo Public Square: Americans get Sherman’s March all wrong. Ask anyone who’s seen Gone with the Wind, and they’ll tell you that U.S. General William T. Sherman’s roughly 250-mile march from Atlanta to Savannah marked […]