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 […]
Archives for 2023
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
âTis 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?Â
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 […]
Shawn Fain’s Christian radicalism
Earlier this week I wondered why people were not talking and writing more about UAW president Shawn Fain’s Christian faith. Church historian Heath Carter has published the piece I was hoping for. Here is a taste of his Jacobin article […]
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
Soviet Jews and Ukraine, things one writes in prison, compassionate conservatism, American utopias, and saying no to paganism
Is it OK to like Barry Manilow’s music?
In fifteen years of blogging I think this is my first Barry Manilow post. I’ll join Tom Nichols of The Atlantic in admitting that I sometimes listen to Manilow’s music. (Though I have never seen him in concert.) Here is […]
Ibram X. Kendi’s “failure, intellectual and moral, is as much ours as it is his”
Back in June we brought some attention to Bates University environmental studies scholar Tyler Austin Harper‘s New York Times piece on race and college admissions. Now, in a piece at The Washington Post, he has weighed-in on the Ibram X. […]
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away
Until an official obituary appears, learn about this trailbazing United States Senator here. She was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988 and was elected to five U.S. Senate terms. In 1984 she was on Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential short […]
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:
Donald Trump goes to Michigan and speaks at a non-union factory
Donald Trump skipped Wednesday night’s GOP debate. Instead he went to Clinton Township, Michigan and spoke at a non-union auto parts factory. The day before Trump’s visit to Michigan, sitting president Joe Biden joined United Autoworkers leader Shawn Fain at […]
The Author’s Corner with Alexandra Filindra
Alexandra Filindra is Associate Professor of Political Science and Psychology at the University of Illinois, Chicago. This interview is based on her new book, Race, Rights, and Rifles: The Origins of the NRA and Contemporary Gun Culture (University of Chicago […]
REVIEW: Power to the People
In the midst of our own conflict and contention, the crisis of antebellum America yields wisdomÂ
What I am reading: reminders from literary introverts
Literary introverts remind us of cosmic truths
Commonplace Book #286
Even at their worst, the churches kept alive a vision of man and fraternity, a knowledge of injustice suffered and retribution due. And for long periods, given the hopeless political environment in which the Negro found himself, “other-worldliness” was the […]