What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals around the world are praying for Ukraine. Evangelicals and rumspringa. Russian evangelicals and the war in Ukraine. Why Tim Keller avoids the culture wars. How should evangelicals engage Haiti? The Asbury Revival and […]
Archives for March 2023
The moral consciousness of a chatbot
Artificial intelligence seemed to behave badly this past month. Tesla had to recall 362,000 of its self-driving cars for a software update after the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration found that these AI-controlled vehicles were speeding through yellow lights, failing […]
The Poisonwood Bible at 25
Revisiting the Barbara Kingsolver bestseller—in which a person becomes a parable
Jamie Raskin gives his House GOP colleagues a grammar lesson
Earlier this year we shared historian Lawrence Glickman’s piece at Slate on why Republicans insist on calling their political opponents the “Democrat Party.” Read it here. I thought about this piece today after I watched Maryland congressman Jamie Raskin respond […]
Should we expand the House of Representatives?
Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen thinks we can solve some of our partisan differences and “renovate our democracy” by expanding the House of Representatives. She makes her case here. A taste: Why this one renovation above all others? Four reasons: […]
The Author’s Corner with Lerone Martin
Lerone Martin is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and the Martin Luther King, Jr., Centennial Chair and Director of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Research and Education Institute at Stanford University. This interview is based on his new book, The […]
The Hidden Seasons of Grief
In the face of our social silence, human kindness is an irreplaceable balm
Ideas in progress: William Thomas Okie
What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? The book project is called Wayside: The Hidden Histories of […]