I am finishing-up Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism in preparation for a conversation I will be taping with him tomorrow on CSPAN’s Book TV. I am sure I […]
Archives for November 2023
Robert Kagan: “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable”
Here is a taste of Kagan‘s piece today at The Washington Post: Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. […]
Current’s 2023 Pushcart Nominations
Please join us in congratulating our nominees for this year’s Pushcart Prize, which is awarded by the Pushcart Press, publisher of the annual Best of the Small Presses, “the most honored literary series in America.” These are: “The Hidden Seasons […]
Evangelical roundup for November 30, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Cal Thomas on Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Wheaton College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social […]
Come Be a Fool as Well
A reflection on faith
An ode to soup
There is nothing simple about soup, if we think about it.
Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem: Trump should drop out of the 2024 presidential race to “preserve his legacy”
Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem, my former theology professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (I took one course with him), made waves when he endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. We spent some time at this blog reflecting on those […]
The Author’s Corner with Whitney Nell Stewart
Whitney Nell Stewart is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Dallas. This interview is based on her new book, This Is Our Home: Slavery and Struggle on Southern Plantations (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). JF: […]
The philosophical assumptions behind historical criticism of the Gospels
This piece is re-posted from the Anxious Bench, where it ran on 11/28/2023. Twenty-one percent of white mainline Protestants do not believe in the virgin birth of Jesus, a Pew research survey found. By contrast, only 1 percent of white evangelical […]
REVIEW: The Heart of ParenthoodÂ
In this story, medical extremity leads to an extremity of grace
Koch political network endorses Nikki Haley
Americans for Prosperity Action, a libertarian conservative super PAC affiliated with billionaire Charles Koch and his late brother David Koch, is endorsing Nikki Haley in the GOP presidential primary race. Here is a taste of the press release: At a […]
Mike Pence’s son talked his father into showing-up on January 6, 2021 to certify the election
ABC News is reporting that Mike Pence was thinking about skipping the January 6, 2021 certification of the 2020 presidential election until his son, a Marine, convinced him otherwise during a Christmas 2020 family vacation in Colorado. All of this […]
Song/poem of the day: Snow Is Falling
We woke up to a thin layer of snow on the ground and more fluff gently falling from heavens above to the earth below. It makes the Russian-Jewish depths of my heart so nostalgically happy and reminds me of this […]
Trump’s 3-fold plan to undermine American democracy
Here is Georgetown University public policy professor Donald P. Moynihan at The New York Times: Donald Trump, the former president and current candidate, puts it in apocalyptic terms: “Either the deep state destroys America or we destroy the deep state.” This […]
Religious congregations in New Orleans are doing something about the effects of climate change
Nina Lakhani, a reporter for The Guardian, introduces us to the Community Lighthouse Network, a group of New Orleans congregations, including a Black megachurch, tackling the effects of climate change in the Big Easy. Here is a taste of Lakhani’s […]
The Marshfield Tea Burning
Ever since I wrote about the Greenwich (NJ) Tea Burning in The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America, I have been fascinated by the various copycat tea burnings and tea parties […]
The Author’s Corner with Aimee Loiselle
Aimee Loiselle is Assistant Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. This interview is based on her new book, Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class (University […]
What’s wrong with cultural Christianity, anyway?
The problem with cultural Christianity is that it is more concerned with the kingdoms of this earth than with care of souls.
They Revel in the Wind
Behold the tuliptree. Behold a future forest.
Consider Current on Giving Tuesday!
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