There is a narrative out there suggesting that COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 hurt American school children, creating a “lost generation” of Americans who are perhaps ill-equipped to bear the burdens of American democracy that will one day be placed on […]
Archives for December 2023
Could a Nikki Haley/Chris Christie tag-team derail Trump?
Whatever you think about former New Jersey governor Christie, he deserves heaps of credit for standing up to the Trump in the way he has done this year. I thought his performance at the last GOP debate (University of Alabama) […]
You only have a few more days to purchase your “7 Mountains Christmas Ornament.” Hurry while supplies last!
From the guy who brought you the $45.00 Trump prayer coin you can now get a “year-round” reminder to take over the culture for Christ: And while your shopping you mine as well buy a copy of The Melchizedek Anointing. […]
Evangelical roundup for December 14, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land: Writer Steven King rips Trump-supporting evangelicals. A news website is uniting Spanish evangelicals. Nicaragua is closing 256 evangelical NGOs. More on Michael Youssef’s evangelism rally in Egypt. Good to see Scot McKnight covering Current‘ […]
I Am of Trump
Perhaps the former president really is a unifier
The “After Virtue” university
The failure of university presidents to condemn antisemitism on their campuses is an example of the “After Virtue” university in action.
Kind words from Christopher “Pietist Schoolman” Gehrz on Confessing History
Before Jay Green, Eric Miller, and yours truly got together to start Current, we edited a book titled Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian’s Vocation (2010). The book includes essays by Mark Schwehn, Una Cadegan, Beth Barton […]
Missouri Senator Josh Hawley jumps on the 2024 Trump train
Here is Burgess Everett at Politico: Josh Hawley said in an interview he’s endorsing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 GOP primary, becoming the 18th Senate GOP backer of the former president. The Missouri Repubican has already said he believed Trump’s […]
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Song of the Day
The United Daughters of the Confederacy “seem convinced that anyone who doesn’t like them just doesn’t know who they are.”
Over at The New Republic, Anna Vernarchik has some nice reporting on the current state of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Here is a taste: …the Daughters seem convinced that anyone who doesn’t like them just doesn’t know who […]
The Washington Post: “The Hunter Biden indictment is sound. The Joe Biden impeachment inquiry is not.”
Here is the editorial board of The Washington Post: The Justice Department has strong criminal cases against Hunter Biden for allegedly failing to pay federal taxes, claiming false deductions and lying about his drug use on paperwork to buy a gun. Congress, […]
We’re HIPs, and we’re so much cooler than DINKs
Have the self-indulgent “DINK (Double Income No Kids)” videos going around lately convinced you that DINKs have got it made? Not so fast.
REVIEW: The Deformation and Reformation of the Evangelical Imagination
Who are evangelicalism’s architects? Bunyan, Dickens, Moody and more
“What should we make of evangelical influencers teaming up with filmmaker Rob Reiner?” My piece today at Religion News Service
Is this the best way of reaching fellow Christians whose minds we want to change? See my piece today at Religion News Service. A taste: So when do we speak “truth” and when do we hold back, knowing that our […]
Warren Throckmorton is now fact-checking David Barton on a podcast
The new edition of Warren Throckmorton’s Getting Jefferson Right is here! Current managing editor Jay Green offers a blurb: In Getting Jefferson Right, Throckmorton and Coulter provide a valuable public service to readers in at least two important respects. First, they expose some […]
David George Moore is the evangelical Dick Cavett
Are you familiar with the work of David Moore? You should be. Here is some praise: David Moore has “a fine capacity to stimulate all the glands of curiosity.” –William F. Buckley David Moore “has a unique ability to draw […]
“We are glad we are not them”: How Canadians are thinking about the potential collapse of American democracy
Over at Literary Review of Canada, Pulitzer prize-winning writer and McGill University professor David Marks Shribman reviews Rob Goodman’s Not Here: Why American Democracy is Eroding and How Canada Can Protect Itself. Here is a taste: It once was sufficient […]
Episode 124: “Christian Capitalism in Early America”
In this episode we talk with Wesleyan University historian Joseph Slaughter, author of Faith in Markets: Christian Capitalism in Early America. He offers a new account of the interplay between religion and capitalism in early American history by focusing on 19th-century […]
The Author’s Corner with Adam R. Nelson
Adam R. Nelson is Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor of Educational Policy Studies and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This interview is based on his new book, Capital of Mind: The Idea of a Modern American University (University of Chicago Press, […]