Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. The latest: Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Facebook: Here’s a story that’s getting little attention from the mainstream media, […]
Archives for 2023
Asbury revival roundup: February 18 at 9:07pm
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Credible insiders tell me that there is a 2.5 hour wait to get into the overflow rooms. There is a 10 hour wait […]
The Asbury revival has “spread” to Cedarville University. According to one report, Cedarville needs it.
On February 12, 2023, Thomas White, the president of Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, tweeted this: Lo and behold, Cedarville is now having a revival. Read this story in the campus newspaper. White announced the revival in a chapel service […]
Asbury revival roundup: February 17 at 9:10PM. The meetings will move off the Asbury University campus.
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. There is now a Wikipedia page. The latest message from the Asbury University president. The revival meetings will no longer take place at […]
The MAGA evangelical revivalists are no longer silent about the Asbury Revival
Last week I wondered why the pro-Trump, Make America Great Again, Christian nationalist revivalists were not noticing the spiritual revival going on at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. These people believe that the United States was founded as a Christian […]
Does social media hurt college applications?
A recent Washington Post piece argues that Gen Z’s “digital footprints” will haunt them. Here is Tatum Hunter: Aly Drake says she used TikTok like a diary. When she felt friendless, she’d make a video about it. When she noticed […]
Nikki Haley’s campaign is “pointless”
Here’s Tom Nichols at The Atlantic. The video announcing Haley’s candidacy was as vapid and weightless a product as any in recent political memory. Of course, it checked all the right boxes: Family, devotion to public service, all the usual generic gloss, […]
John McWhorter on the AP African American Studies course
Earlier this month the College Board removed a few writers, ideas, and subjects from its AP African American Studies course. The Board removed lessons on Black queer studies, intersectionality, the Black Lives Matter Movement, Black feminist literary thought, the reparations […]
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:
Statues and Limitations: The Use and Abuse of Historical Context
Appealing to the past for present purposes risks misleading us about the present—and the past as well
What I am reading: John Ferling
I am working on a book on America’s Revolutionary War, so most of my reading of late has focused on that conflict. But I am a voracious and omnivorous reader and I break away from the eighteenth century when possible, […]
Asbury revival roundup: February 16 at 9:25PM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Insiders tell me that there are discussions about moving the revival off the Asbury College site. Stay tuned. The president of Samford University: […]
Asbury revival roundup: February 16 at 1:20pm
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Today’s schedule: How revivals spread–my feature today at CURRENT. An evangelist named Martin Luther says it’s worth the drive to Wilmore: From yesterday […]
Messiah University is looking for someone to teach an intro course on the Civil War and Reconstruction in Fall ’23
If you are interested, let me know. It will be a night class (6:15-9:15) that will meet once a week. We are looking for someone: The course is geared toward non-history majors, but it is likely that a handful of […]
A conversation with Sean Casey
Eerdmans recently invited me to join ethicist and diplomat Sean Casey to think about some connections between his book Chasing the Devil at Foggy Bottom (2023) and my book Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. Casey was the […]
John Hagee opens in prayer at Nikki Haley’s presidential campaign rollout. Was this a good way to start?
Yesterday at Nikki Haley’s announcement: Somewhere along the way Nikki Haley bonded with John Hagee, the San Antonio megachurch pastor and founder of Christians United for Israel. They have made several appearances together over the years. Back in July, she […]
Evangelical roundup for February 16, 2023 at 9:30pm
What is happening in Evangelical Land? If you want to get up to speed on the Asbury Revival, we are covering that here. This roundup focuses on the currently unrevived world of evangelicalism. Women Talking There are more evangelicals than […]
The First Twitter Revival?
The Asbury Revival is spreading in the same way the First Great Awakening did
Studying history with nuance and context: some advice to graduate students
Last weekend I gave a keynote address at a graduate history conference on power and struggle that was organized by students at the University of Alabama. I encouraged the graduate students to embrace complexity and nuance in their historical study, […]
Asbury revival roundup: February 16 at 12:39AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Insiders tell me that they heard from a student who did not recognize anyone in Hughes Auditorium tonight. What happens when the dust […]