As Kate Shellnut reports at Christianity Today, Liberty University has finally replaced Jerry Falwell Jr. on a permanent basis. Dondi Custin is a retired Air Force chaplain. Here is a taste of Kate’s reporting: Two and a half years after […]
Archives for March 2023
Check out Current‘s new “Reviews” section
We publish a lot of book reviews in Current features section. For those of you who love books and ideas that come from books, we have gathered all of our reviews and placed them under the “Reviews” tag above. Enjoy! […]
Trump is indicted. How are evangelicals responding?
Trump is the first United States president to face criminal charges–more than thirty of them. The formal indictment will take place on Tuesday at 2:15pm. Evangelical responses are below. Let’s remember that none of these evangelicals have seen the thirty […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week atĀ Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week atĀ The Way of Improvement Leads HomeĀ blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week atĀ The ArenaĀ blog:
Steve Pettit resigns as president of Bob Jones University
Back in November 2022 old school fundamentalists at Bob Jones University in Greenville, South Carolina tried to remove president Steve Pettit. Apparently the popular president was allowing the wrong kind of music in chapel, letting female athletes wear “immodest clothing,” […]
Stop Trying to Predict How Evangelicals Will Vote in the 2024 GOP Primaries
Not all white conservative evangelicals are ditching Trump
What I am reading: a review of Rick Kennedy’s Winds of Santa Ana
Winds of Santa Ana: Pilgrim Stories of the California Bight by Rick Kennedy. Wipf and Stock, 2022. 206 pp., $25.00. It is a time-tested truism of the academic profession that the best adventuring is of the armchair variety. But every […]
What we need to know about Donald Trump’s indictment
Donald Trump becomes the first former president of the United States to face criminal charges. Fingerprints and a mugshot are coming next week. Josh Gerstein and Kyle Cheney of Politico answer our questions. Here is a taste: While the precise […]
The Author’s Corner with Carl T. Bogus
Carl T. Bogus is Professor of Law Emeritus at Roger Williams University. This interview is based on his new book, Madison’s Militia: The Hidden History of the Second Amendment (Oxford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Madison’s […]
Evangelical roundup for March 30, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? A 9-year-old hero at Covenant School in Nashville. European evangelicals against abuse. Rick Warren on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention: Spanish evangelicals recommend Christian leaders “avoid using their pastoral influence to condition […]
Lab Leaks and Accident Denials
Itās right out of the totalitarian playbook: Deny, suppress, erase
Liberty Valance meets Abraham Lincoln
A mark of a truly great work of art is the ability to go back time and again to the work and still find something new. As a homeschooling father I recently took command of my childrenās education and introduced […]
Song of the Day
Addendum to roundup of coverage on guns and gun control: Timothy Larsen’s essay from 2021
Earlier today, I ran a roundup of all Current, Arena, and Way of Improvement Leads Home coverage on guns and gun control since May 2022. But I want to add here one more resource. In August 2021, Current Contributing Editor […]
Is Doug Mastriano an environmentalist?
The MAGA–election denier–Christian nationalist posted this today on his Facebook page: But what about climate change? š
Commonplace Book #252
But since we are obliged to see the whole Bible, along with the classical inheritance, as fundamental to our civilization, and since the wholeness of heart that is peace is the subject of this laborious meditation of mine, it is […]
Guns and mass shootings coverage roundup since May 2022: Current, Arena, and Way of Improvement Leads Home
In late May 2022, less than a year ago, John Fea posted this roundup of coverage on guns and gun control on his blog. This week unfortunately seems to be an appropriate time to add to this list. Below are […]
A Cut to the Flesh
Without the surgical incision of sarcasm, we might not have America!
Senate Chaplain Barry Black: “It is time for us to move beyond thoughts and prayers”
I am watching an interview with him on CNN right now. Here is his prayer yesterday in the Senate today:
Publishers Weekly announces finalists for “Bookstore of the Year”
They are: Edmunds Bookshop in Edmunds, Washington Harvey’s Tales in Geneva, Illinois. Interabang Books in Dallas, Texas Main Street Books in Lafayette, Indiana And (drumroll please): MIDTOWN SCHOLAR BOOKSTORE in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania! We had our book launch for Believe Me: […]