Archives for February 2023

Commonplace Book #239

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Yet in how many tiny and inconsiderable trifles is this curiosity of our daily tempted: and how often we slip, who shall number? When people tell idle stories, it happens only too often that we first endure them, lest we […]

On Fred Shuttlesworth

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Here is a taste of Tish Harrison Warren’s New York Times piece on the late Birmingham civil rights activist: On Sept. 9, 1957, the very day President Eisenhower signed the Civil Rights Act and lawyers sought injunctive relief to force […]

Evangelical roundup for February 6, 2023

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What is happening in Evangelical land? Pentecostalism A 77-year-old woman is baptized. Bob Smietana on the “He Gets Us” campaign. Wheaton College is doing kingdom work: More on Wheaton: Marvin Olasky on Christian journalism. Russell Moore on police brutality. The […]

Finding the Good: NBA Father Figures

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We have many cultural commentators today decrying the loss of the traditional family and the decline of fatherhood. Some of their concerns seem grounded in the previous decades—divorce is down, for example, and fathers are more engaged than they were. […]

Sunday night odds and ends

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A few things online that caught my attention this week: The history of distraction Rod Dreher responds to this Hollywood’s links to the antebellum South Thomas Chatterton Williams on why he is uneasy with some forms of “anti-wokeness” Steven Kellman […]

Tim Keller hopes for spiritual revival

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A lot of conservative evangelicals are calling for spiritual revival these days. Most of these calls are connected directly to a revival of American nationalism as if somehow the purpose of a religious revival is to advance a particular political […]

Commonplace Book #238

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Throughout modern history, the greatest threat to democracy has come from…the denial of political legitimacy to those who fail to share one’s own views on key issues. Historians have devoted intensive study to the long and painful process by which […]

Commonplace Book #237

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The bottom line is that the fate of poor and working-class African Americans–who are unquestionably overrepresented among neoliberalism’s victims–is linked to that of other poor and working-class Americans. Our road to a more just society for African Americans and everyone […]

Rod Dreher in Hungary: “blogging and backtracking”

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Here is Hungarian writer Balázs Gulyás on the mess the conservative blogger is making in Hungary: Last week, Rod Dreher, the American author now living in Hungary, caused a diplomatic scandal that has gone largely unnoticed in his home country. […]

College in the age of A.I.

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New York Times columnist David Brooks encourages college students to take courses and learn to think in ways that “machines will not replicate.” Here is a taste: If, say, you’re a college student preparing for life in an A.I. world, […]

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: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:

Equity and Justice at a Harvard Abortion Conference

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Last week I attended a conference on abortion that was held at Harvard University. It was a fascinating conference, partly because it brought together both supporters and opponents of legal abortion who in many cases shared a belief in expanded […]