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 […]
Archives for April 2023
Christian nationalist worship leader Sean Feucht says the quiet part out loud
Here is Feucht at Sheridan Church in Tulsa, Oklahoma: Right Wing Watch has the full story. Watch the entire speech.
Commonplace Book #259
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”
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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
The ideal of objectivity is too important to be left on the scrapheap of history
Howard Thurman and the civil rights movement
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
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
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
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
There are important lessons for conservative media in the massive Dominion/Fox settlement. Is anyone listening?
Virtue and historical thinking
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?
Free inquiry without ethics endangers freedom
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