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Archives for April 2023

Sunday night odds and ends

John Fea   |  April 23, 2023

A few things online that caught my attention this week: John Brown’s farm Tiya Miles reviews David Waldstreicher’s The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley. Fred Bauer reviews Michael Walzer’s The Struggle for a Decent Politics: On “Liberal” as an Adjective. Thomas […]

Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht says the quiet part out loud

John Fea   |  April 23, 2023

Here is Feucht at Sheridan Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma: Right Wing Watch has the full story. Watch the entire speech.

Commonplace Book #259

John Fea   |  April 22, 2023

The threat to domestic tranquility is not that people take sides and disagree, but that the sides of a political division will assume the purity and passion of moral absolutism or moral allegory, in which the people on each side […]

Court evangelical Robert Jeffress is “now solidly behind Trump”

John Fea   |  April 21, 2023

The court evangelicals continue to line-up behind Donald Trump. So far Mike Huckabee, Paula White, Eric Metaxas, Lance Wallnau, Marc Burns, and James Dobson have either formal endorsed Trump or suggested they will support him in the 2024 presidential election. […]

What is popular this week at Current?

John Fea   |  April 21, 2023

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:

Eighteen hours in Madison, Wisconsin

John Fea   |  April 21, 2023

Yesterday I spent the day with the impressive staff of Upper House, the Christian study center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was in Madison to participate in an interfaith faculty dialogue on listening and democratic discourse […]

Ideas in progress: Dixie Dillon Lane on parenting, homeschooling, and writing while juggling

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  April 21, 2023

You are a historian and a homeschool mom of four. What does a “typical” day look like for you? I roll through my day like a boulder careening down an unpredictable hill. I place a lot of structure on my […]

Is College Really Worth It?

David John Seel Jr.   |  April 21, 2023

For those wary of macro-debt, a micro-college may be the way to go

Ivana Greco on homeschooling: today at the Institute for Family Studies blog

Dixie Dillon Lane   |  April 20, 2023

It is strange, but patently true, that young boys often learn best while upside down.  Or if they aren’t upside down, they often need to be moving, or at least doing something with their hands. Their proprioceptive, vestibular, and optical […]

Evangelical roundup for April 20, 2023

John Fea   |  April 20, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land? Charles Stanley, RIP. The Southern Baptist Convention calls for red flag gun laws in Tennessee. C.S. Lewis evangelicals. Three generations of pastors. Christian Right presidential candidates are coming to Iowa. Amy Grant steps up: […]

Ideas in progress: Jon D. Schaff on liberal arts education, favorite recent reads, and the intellectual life

Jon D. Schaff   |  April 20, 2023

What is the focus of your current writing? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in your projects right now? I am working on two different projects. I just […]

Academic Holiness

Mark Schwehn   |  April 20, 2023

The ideal of objectivity is too important to be left on the scrapheap of history

Howard Thurman and the civil rights movement

John Fea   |  April 19, 2023

Black Perspectives is running an online forum on civil rights activist and Christian mystic Howard Thurman. Here are the pieces they have published: Tejai Beulah Howard, Howard Thurman’s Biographer: An Author Interview with Peter Eisenstadt Dorsey Blake, Beyond Faiths and […]

Molly Prentiss’s writing shed

John Fea   |  April 19, 2023

I haven’t done a writing shed post in a while. Yesterday Lit Hub featured novelist Molly Prentiss‘s shed. A taste: When we’d decided to purchase a one-room house, we hadn’t considered that we’d be stuck inside of it, without access […]

I aspire to become an influencer

John Fea   |  April 19, 2023

Actually, I don’t. But in a recent piece at The Atlantic Katherine Hu wonders if “influencing” is the “new American dream.” Here is a taste: Fifty-four percent of young Americans would become an influencer if given the chance. This statistic, from […]

Canada’s last minor league baseball team

John Fea   |  April 19, 2023

The people of Vancouver love their Canadians, the Toronto Blue Jay’s Class A baseball club and Major League Baseball’s last minor league team. Here is a taste of Kurt Streeter’s The New York Times piece, “Is This Heaven? No It’s […]

How We Saved WORLD Millions of Dollars

Marvin Olasky   |  April 19, 2023

There are important lessons for conservative media in the massive Dominion/Fox settlement. Is anyone listening?

Virtue and historical thinking

John Wilsey   |  April 19, 2023

I am presently writing on a book on conservatism and religious liberty. As I have worked on this book, I have been immersed in the thought of Peter Viereck (1916–2006), especially his books Conservatism Revisited: The Revolt Against Ideology (1949), […]

What Fruit Do Universities Bear?

Nadya Williams   |  April 19, 2023

Free inquiry without ethics endangers freedom

Image of the day

John Fea   |  April 18, 2023

Context.

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