I was recently talking to a conservative evangelical Christian who has read all of Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn‘s books. Cahn has a huge following in the certain sectors of the evangelical world. Back in 2019, The New York Times ran […]
Archives for 2023
When it comes to the MAGA media infrastructure, Lauren Boebert can do no wrong.
Get up to speed here and here. Watch a clip of Boebert’s recent interview with Dan Ball of One America News:
Environmentalism as the next pro-life movement?
According to Harvard’s Chika O. Okafor, the next pro-life argument will be green. Here is his piece at Lebanon (NH) Valley News:
Happiness guru Arthur Brooks is writing books with Oprah
I remember Arthur Brooks as the president of the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank that champions free market solutions to social problems. Back in 2011 he came to Messiah University (the school where I teach) to debate Jim […]
Steven Mintz on “the left”
Over at Inside Higher Ed, historian Steven Mintz helps us make sense of the American left. Here is a taste of his piece, “What Does It Mean to Be a Leftist in 2023?“: Today, the left takes many different forms. […]
Lauren Boebert apologizes
A follow-up to this story. Sometimes you need to apologize to save your political life. Let’s see if she will apologize to the pregnant woman who asked her to stop vaping.
75% of Americans side with the United Auto Workers. Why aren’t more Americans in the streets as a show of support?
When the George Floyd was killed, Americans took the streets in protest. When Donald Trump was elected president, the #MeToo movement took the streets in protest. Why don’t we see similar uprisings in support of working class Americans fighting for […]
What’s going on at Charlie Kirk’s MAGA pastorfest?
MAGA pastors are in San Diego this weekend as part of Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Faith event. Get up to speed here. Here’s what has happened so far: Let’s begin with Charlie Kirk. He is suggesting that evangelicals missed out […]
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
Many unicorns in one civilized place form a blessing for your Saturday. Here is this week’s herd, corralled all together: *** Louise Perry’s latest for First Things, “We Are Repaganizing,” is the most important thing I read this week. A […]
The National Book Award announces its longlist of finalists
History is well represented in the non-fiction category: Ned Blackhawk, The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. HistoryYale University Press Jonathan Eig, King: A LifeFarrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan Publishers Viet Thanh Nguyen, A Man of Two Faces: […]
Romney announces he will not run in 2024. What does this mean for Senate centrists?
Former GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney will step away from his U.S. Senate seat after his term is over in January 2025. He will not seek re-election in 2024. Over at Politico, Burgess Everett asks what Romney’s departure, and the […]
Did God “call” Lauren Boebert to this?
Congresswoman Lauren Boebert and her boyfriend were thrown out of a Denver theater this week. There was vaping, groping, and just general obnoxiousness. Learn more here. Or just watch: And here is Lauren flipping the bird to the theater employees: […]
When it comes to transgender athletes in women’s sports, don’t mess with Oberlin College
I’ve tried to look at all sides of this question, I really have. I’ve talked to both of my daughters–one of whom was an NCAA Division III athlete who played on a national championship volleyball team and the other who […]
The Author’s Corner with Melissa Blair
Melissa Blair is Associate Professor and Department Chair of History at Auburn University. This interview is based on her new book, Bringing Home the White House: The Hidden History of Women who Shaped the Presidency in the Twentieth Century (University […]
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:
You really can just unplug: three months later
This past July, I posted here at the Arena about the challenges of finding a way to unplug from the internet and devices regularly without having to pay the price of answering approximately one million e-mails, messages, and more once […]
Tricky Dick and Don
A tale of two very different January 6thsÂ
Wheaton College study on race: “We cannot be healed and cannot be reconciled unless and until we repent”
A Wheaton College task force has released a 122-page historical report on race relations at the evangelical institution. Read it here. Here is Daniel Silliman and Kate Shellnut at Christianity Today: Though the flagship evangelical institution was founded by abolitionists, […]
Are liberals ignoring the value of two-parent families?
In his column this week at The New York Times, Nicholas Kristof suggests that liberals need to talk about the value of two-parent families. Here is a taste: American liberals have led the campaign to reduce child poverty since Franklin […]
Eric Metaxas prepares pastors for a holy war
Metaxas spoke last night at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Faith event and issued a call for pastors to engage in a holy war: I am reminded of Russel Moore’s recent piece at Christianity Today: “Culture War is Not Spiritual Warfare.”