What is happening in Evangelical land? Is Trump really the political savior of Iowa evangelicals? Megachurches are getting bigger. The Church of England divests from fossil fuels companies. Ed Stetzer on Pentecostals DeSantis and Iowa evangelicals Spanish evangelicals on Christian […]
Archives for July 2023
Oh the Place We Went: At Large in the Porkies
Close the eyes of the tourist. Open the eyes of the soul.
Additional observations on admissions stories
The recent Supreme Court decision overturning the legality of affirmation action in Harvard admissions has been met with all kinds of reactions. There is hand-wringing and rejoicing. There is disdainful headshaking and disdainful crowing. A lot of that is about […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Good conversation A Midwestern childhood Should we be fighting climate change in the same way we fought the Nazis? Woody Guthrie: radical Are the rich really getting richer at the […]
Responding to the critics of my piece “Kid Gloves” (1619 Project)
It looks like my feature we published on Friday at Current received some attention on Twitter. I’m glad people are reading it and, for the most part, taking it seriously. For the record, here is everything I have written at […]
What I learned watching the BLAZE coverage of the Family Leadership Summit
On Friday July 14, Iowa evangelicals gathered to hear GOP presidential candidates speak at The Family Leadership Summitt. The event was sponsored by Bob VanderPlaats‘s Family Leader organization and hosted by Tucker Carlson. The former Fox News host interviewed Tim […]
20 things I “learned” from watching Donald Trump’s speech tonight at the Turning Point USA event
He was the keynote speaker at Charlie Kirk’s Trumpfest. Here is what I “learned”: Here are some live comments on the Right Side Broadcasting Network stream of Trump’s speech:
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:
Kid Gloves
If the 1619 Project is bad history why won’t more historians say so?
Can you really “just” unplug?
Recently, I spent five days in the mountains without internet-connected devices. It was great. Meanwhile, however, 207 e-mails were mercilessly piling up in my inbox. Upon my return, I immediately e-mailed a friend to complain and he wrote back right […]
How you can support our work at Current
We often think about Current as a “little magazine.” In a piece on the tenth anniversary (1976) of the magazine Salmagundi, cultural critic Christopher Lasch (whose daughter Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn is a Current contributing editor) wrote: The so-called little magazine, which addresses neither the mass market nor an […]
The Author’s Corner with Jan Wim Buisman
Jan Wim Buisman is a retired Lecturer on the History of Christianity, now a Guest Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR). This interview is based on his new book, Lightning in the Age of […]
Evangelical roundup for July 13, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical presidental candidates are coming to Iowa. Pentecostals A veteran United Methodist pastor on the state of evangelical Christianity. Evangelical women who support the mothers of LGBTQ kids. An Alabama megachurch opens a “pastoral […]
REVIEW: Bernie, Deneen, and a Left-Conservative Solution
What does our moment require? An aristocratic revolution? Or a democratic reformation?
Always let your conscience be your guide
A recent kerfuffle between pro-abortion rights Catholic legislators and the American Catholic bishops offers a convenient reason to consider a pesky little word: conscience. The legislators cite the Catholic Catechism (paragraph 1790) to the effect that a “human being must […]
This pastor won’t let his wife read unless he approves of her reading material
I’ve heard about this kind of extreme complementarianism, but I don’t think I’ve ever witnessed it quite like this. Joel Webbon of Right Response Ministries appears to embrace some mix of Seven Mountain Dominionism, theonomism, and Christian Recontructionism. He is […]
Is West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin running for president?
If Manchin runs as a third-party candidate there is a good chance that Donald Trump or another Republican will be the next president. Here is John Wagner at The Washington Post: Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) plans to headline an […]
The International African American Museum opens in Charleston
Here is Holland Cotter at The New York Times: In Charleston Harbor, where the initiating shots of the Civil War were fired — Fort Sumter is distantly visible — I’m on the site of a former shipping pier known as Gadsden’s […]
The Author’s Corner with Farley Grubb
Farley Grubb is Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). This interview is based on his new book, The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed by […]
REVIEW: The Regimes They Are A-Changin
Or are they?