Here is Susan Svrluga at The Washington Post: Liberty University has failed for years to keep its campus safe and repeatedly violated the federal law that specifies how it should do so, according to preliminary confidential findings from an Education […]
Archives for October 2023
Donald Trump and white Fabio Jesus are in court this week
“Dom Lucre” (his real name is Dominick McGee”) is an internet personality who, according to this bio, is an Army veteran, Hip-Hop music label executive, financial adviser, 2020 election denier, Trump supporter, and “Christian missionary.” On Monday night he shared […]
NBC News tackles Seven Mountain Dominionism
Here is NBC News’s Grapevine Podcast. You might hear a familiar voice 🙂
The GOP clownshow rolls on
In 1910, the House of Representatives voted to remove Speaker of the House Joseph Cannon, an anti-progressive Republican (as opposed to the progressive Republican presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft) from Illinois. Here is Hillsdale College historian Joseph Postell: […]
Children’s classics find a new life in Classical languages
Latin and Greek translations of beloved children’s classics are a trend worth celebrating.
REVIEW: “War and Books are Incompatible”
A Ukrainian diarist gives the world a disturbing glimpse of a ghastly war
Tabor College chapel talk
Yesterday I had a great visit to Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. Thanks to David Faber for hosting me and to Ryan Loewen and Erik Noren for opening up their classes to this visitor. One of my assignments was to […]
Episode 118: “Evangelicals and the Environment”
Most Americans probably think of conservative evangelicals as climate change deniers who believe global warming is a hoax. If this is you, you would not be entirely wrong. But our guest today, Neill Pogue, author of The Nature of the Religious […]
The F-Word
‘Tis mighty and dreadful no more
No, it’s not “OK” to like Barry Manilow’s music, and in your heart you know it
Barry Manilow’s music shirks its duty, which is the duty of every human being when we open our mouths: Tell the truth.
The Author’s Corner with Stephen D. Engle
Stephen D. Engle is Professor of History and Associate Provost for Academic Personnel at Florida Atlantic University. This interview is based on his new book, In Pursuit of Justice: The Life of John Albion Andrew (University of Massachusetts Press, 2023). […]
Tell the truth and shame the devil
Prager U video about Grant and Lee is not a truthful representation of Grant’s views. Such lies matter.
Evangelical roundup for October 2, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Young evangelicals fighting climate change. Spanish evangelicals unite. The World Evangelical Alliance defends freedom of religion in France. Robert Tracy McKenzie and Mark David Hall debate whether America had a Christian founding. Karen Swallow […]
LONG FORM: Where Have You Gone, Abraham Kuyper?
Public theology for different publics
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Heather Cox Richardson: “The Fight for Our America“ Vladimir Putin’s view of history Shohei Othani’s 2023 season New stained-glass windows in Washington National Cathedral The inspiration for Uncle Tom 50,000 […]