What is popular this week at Current?

Here are the most popular features of the week at Current:

1. Mark Noll, “LONG FORM: You’ve Written Two Long Books—So What?“
2. Nadya Williams, “Israel’s Liturgy of National Suffering“
3. John Stackhouse, “LONG FORM: Where Have You Gone, Abraham Kuyper?”
4. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, “LONG FORM: Remembering the University’s Mission“
5. Daniel K. Williams and Marvin Olasky, “Abortion and Pro-Life Politics: A Conversation, Part II“

Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog:

1. What is going on at Grand Canyon University?
2. John McWhorter: Ibram X. Kendi is not a “grifter”
3. Former Harvard president Lawrence Summers on the school’s silence on the Israel-Hamas war
4. Trump: Immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country”
5. Evangelical roundup for October 9, 2023
6. Evangelical pastor John MacArthur in 1998: “When a ruler is given to lies, he will accumulate around him people who can tolerate lying.”
7. Members of the Robert and Ethel Kennedy family continue to denounce Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential run
8. Princeton historian Kevin Kruse is done with Twitter (X)
9. Pamela Paul: “a person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing Kendi’s conception of antiracism.”
10. Jonathan Greenblatt of the Anti-Defamation League rips MSNBC over its coverage of the Hamas-Israeli war

Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:

1. Barry Manilow: not so bad (John Stackhouse)
2. Ideas in Progress: Pearl J. Young on southern religion and the Civil War (Pearl J. Young)
3. You really can just unplug: three months later (Dixie Dillon Lane)
4. Children’s classics find a new life in Classical languages (Nadya Williams)
5. On not concluding (Elizabeth Stice)

RECOMMENDED READING

Pray for Peace The New York Times: “America’s duty as Israel’s friend is to stand firm in its support” Pamela Paul: “a person can oppose racism on firm ethical or philosophical or pragmatic grounds without embracing Kendi’s conception of antiracism.” Evangelical roundup for October 12, 2023