A few things online that caught my attention this week: Real conversation Jason Blakely reviews Patrick Deneen, Regime Change: Toward a Postliberal Future. Is Harvard good for your soul? Ethical grandstanding on social media Climate change and the end of […]
Archives for August 2023
Bruxy Cavey is back
Some of you may recall the recent scandals surrounding the Toronto megachurch pastor. Get up to speed here. Bruxy Cavey has started a new “ministry” called “The Ghost of 1820.” He is even asking for money. Here is a taste […]
Unicorn at the Arena
It’s a never-before-seen mythical beast: an eclectic links roundup of the week here at the Arena. This makes it a unicorn. Will I ever get organized enough on another Friday night to do this again? Unclear. But for this week […]
John McWhorter on the Florida African American history curriculum
I took a little heat for my take on the Florida African American history controversy. Last month I wrote: The standards were much better than I expected. If I was a high school teacher in Florida I could easily work […]
James Madison’s Montpelier will honor the enslaved men and women who lived and died there
Tomorrow’s event is called “We the People: a Summer Celebration.” (Live-streaming here.) Here is Antonio Olivo at The Washington Post: This weekend, James Madison’s Montpelier estate will kick off a multiyear project to pay tribute to the nearly 300 enslaved […]
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:
What I am reading: Jacob Hiserman on Gerard O’Shea’s Educating in Christ and takeaways for college classroom pedagogy
Oftentimes, we pick up books for one reason and discover more reasons why we’re reading them as we go along. That recently happened to me. I’m reading Australian teacher Gerard O’Shea’s Educating in Christ: A Practical Handbook for Developing the Catholic Faith […]
Lord Peter Wimsey Turns 100
The golden age of detective fiction was a long time ago
Evangelical roundup for August 3, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Karen Swallow Prior talks to Russell Moore about The Evangelical Imagination. The founder of a British Pentecostal credit union has died. Is The King’s College actually closing? More here. Oral Roberts University signs its […]
Orphaned Socks
The revelatory power of hoards—both ancient and modern
Bombs, justice, and historical humility
In 1982 The Gap Band had a hit record with the song “You Dropped a Bomb on Me.” That song was a rather unconventional take on the love song. I guess if someone drops a love bomb on you that’s […]
A reader responds: the future of evangelical scholars and scholarship
Adam Shields manages a small non-profit that focuses on developing prayer and church-based community ministries. He is also a spiritual director. He lives with his wife and two children in Marietta, GA. He has made it a spiritual practice to […]
Ideas in progress: Colleen Vasconcellos on Jell-O, the history of piracy, and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise
This is Part I of a two-part post. Stay tuned for Part II coming next week, which will focus more on Colleen’s on-going research on enslaved girls and manumission in Jamaica. As you are getting ready for a new academic […]
What is it going to take for candidates to get on stage for the second GOP presidential debate?
The second GOP debate will take place at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California on September 27, 2023. Alex Isenstadt of Politico is reporting that it is going to be difficult for candidates to get on the stage. Here […]
Responses to Trump’s third federal indictment
Donald Trump is now facing federal indictments in three different jurisdictions with a probable fourth indictment (Georgia) on its way. In case you missed it, yesterday Trump was indicted over efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Here are some of […]
Is Climate Change Stealing Our Peaches?
Reality demands a more complex story
“Arguments with everyone”
Over at The Bulwark, Ronald Radosh reviews Martin Peretz’s memoir The Controversalist: Arguments with Everyone, Left Right and Center. Peretz is the former editor of The New Republic. Here is a taste of Radosh’s review: WRITING RECENTLY IN HIS New York magazine […]
Ann Sprigg’s boarding house and the end of slavery
Here is historian Bennett Parten at Zocalo Public Square: In the early 1840s, where the steps of the Library of Congress now stand, a group of American abolitionists gathered in a modest boardinghouse to plot the destruction of slavery. The […]
The future of evangelical scholars (and their scholarship too)
A year ago, a welcome second edition appeared of that most articulate of jeremiads (as it has been frequently dubbed) about the state of the evangelical mind and (related) evangelical scholarship: Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. The […]
REVIEW: Searching for Solidarity
Weigel’s sharp vision begins to fail when he turns to the United States