When it comes to our international friends and relations, it’s not always clear to everyone who they might be or should be.
Archives for 2023
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: A helpful timeline of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Danielle Allen: America’s “domestic dysfunction and internal division leave out allies around the globe vulnerable.” Lonely roads Jennifer Szalai reviews Fergus M. Bordewich, […]
Wide Awoke at Wheaton?
McDermott’s misrepresentations and evangelicals’ missed opportunities lead to lament
Eboo Patel: Diversity training should be about “contributions,” not “wounds”
Eboo Patel is the founder and presdient of Interfaith America and the author of We Need to Build: Field Notes for a Diverse Democracy. Earlier this year we called your attention to his piece at The Chronicle of Education: “Today’s […]
More than 700 children dead in Gaza; 2,450 injured
Here is CNN: More than 700 children have been killed in Gaza and another 2,450 have been injured since last Saturday, according to the United Nations Children’s Fund, citing local sources. “According to the latest reports by local health authorities and […]
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
This is a good week to remember that unicorns are, among other things, a symbol of peace.
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:
Pray for Peace
It is time to stand with the people of Israel. It is time to stand with the people of Gaza.
How to write a book proposal with a toddler jumping on your back
Yes, you can write a book proposal (and book)–even with a toddler jumping on your back.
Steve Scalise drops out of Speaker race
Yesterday the Republican Party nominated Lousiana’s Steve Scalise as their choice to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. Today Scalise withdrew his name from consideration. Here is CNN: Rep. Steve Scalise announced he was dropping out of the speaker’s race […]
Evangelical roundup for October 12, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? European evangelicals pray for peace in the Middle East. Palestinian Christians and Messianic Jews respond to the Hamas attack on Israel. An Arab evangelical responds to the Hamas attack on Israel. Francis Chan is […]
The Author’s Corner with James M. Thomas
James M. Thomas is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the University of Mississippi. This interview is based on his new book, The Souls of Jewish Folk: W. E. B. Du Bois, Anti-Semitism, and the Color Line (University of […]
Song of the day: Allegri, Miserere mei, Deus (Psalm 51)
This setting and performance of Psalm 51 are sublime and needed this week.
REVIEW: Language Versus “the Lingo”
In this story, the Russification of eastern Europe never looked worse
Steve Scalise wins GOP nomination for House Speaker
Here is CNN: Rep. Steve Scalise has won the House GOP’s nomination for speaker during a secret ballot vote, according to multiple sources familiar. The final vote tally was 113 for Steve Scalise and 99 for Jim Jordan. The threshold […]
Evangelical pastor John MacArthur in 1998: “When a ruler is given to lies, he will accumulate around him people who can tolerate lying.”
Back in 2015 I started collecting quotes from Christian leaders who made bold statements about presidential character during the 1998 Clinton impeachment and then seemed to ignore their own principles when Donald Trump was running for president. I called attention […]
U.S. intelligence doubts that Iran was directly involved in the Hamas attack on Israel, but a full conclusion on the matter is pending
CNN is reporting: The United States has collected specific intelligence that casts doubt on the idea that Iran was directly involved in the planning, resourcing or approving of Saturday’s bloody attack on Israel by Hamas, according to several sources familiar with the intelligence. Still, […]
Palestinian Christian journalist: It’s time for the U.S. to recognize a Palestinian state
Daoud Kuttab is a Palestinian Christian and award-winning journalist who was the first Palestinian to interview former Israeli prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres. He has spent much of his career fighting for a free media in Palestine under […]
REVIEW: Free Souls
For the great Russian writers, wonder was the pathway to freedom
Ideas in Progress: Pearl J. Young on southern religion and the Civil War
A physics major turned historian tells about her research.