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Archives for January 2024
The source of hope in a violent year
Even if this new year turns out to be a time of fighting, unrest, and discord in this world, we can live in the light of a kingdom that is not of this world – a kingdom that sets us on a path of genuine peace.
David French: “Enough! It’s time to apply the plain language of the Constitution to Trump’s actions and remove him from the ballot”
In his New York Times column today, David French argues that worrying about the “consequences” of keeping Trump off the ballot is not a legal argument. Here is a taste: It’s been just over two weeks since the Colorado Supreme […]
When two early South Carolinians changed their minds about slavery
The South Carolina State Museum recently acquired the personal Bible of enslaver turned abolitionist William Turpin. Historians David Dangerfield (University of South Carolina-Salkehatchie) and Ramon Jackson (South Carolina State Museum) tell us more at Christianity Today: At first glance, William […]
You have to love Jack and Jackie Harbaugh
Coach Jim Harbaugh has taken Michigan football to the national championship game. As many of you already know, the Harbaughs are a football family. Jim’s father Jack Harbaugh is a former college football coach. Jim’s brother John Harbaugh coaches the […]
Taylor University lands a $30 million grant to help revitalize its surrounding neighborhood
Congratulations to Taylor University. It is good to see evangelical colleges serving the common good and loving their neighbors in this way. Here is Kathryn Post at Religion News Service: Taylor University, a leading evangelical institution about an hour northeast […]
Evangelical roundup for January 4, 2024
Happy New Year! What is happening in Evangelical land? The national director of the Church of England Evangelical Council ponders the future of evangelicals in the Church of England. Texas evangelicals come together to form the country’s largest food bank. […]
The Border of Disaster
Democrats need an immigration policy. Now.
Celebrating the book launch of Nicholas Elder’s Gospel Media
Book launch interview with Nicholas Elder about his new book Gospel Media: Reading, Writing, and Circulating the Jesus Traditions (Eerdmans).
And then there were three (at least in terms of GOP debate qualifiers)
Three GOP presidential hopefuls have qualified for the final debate before the Iowa caucuses. They are Donald Trump, Nikki Haley, and Ron DeSantis. Haley and DeSantis will participate in the January 10 debate at Drake University, five days before the […]
When “a decade of ideological transformation” in the academy “comes undone”
After learning that Claudine Gay, the embattled president of Harvard, resigned her post I returned to Len Gutkin‘s December 22, 2023 essay in The Chronicle of Higher Education. It is titled, “A Decade of Ideological Transformation Comes Undone.” Here is […]
The Author’s Corner with Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele is Graduate Studies Director and Associate Professor of History at Miami University. This interview is based on her new book, Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism (University of Chicago Press, […]
Jill Lepore on “the hold of the dead over the living”
Over at the Los Angeles Review of Books, historian Jill Lepore discusses her recent collection of essays, The Deadline, with the magazine’s law editor, Julien Crockett. Here is a taste of the interview: JULIEN CROCKETT: In the introduction to your […]
The Right Response to the War in Ukraine
Conservatives need a better reference point
A New Year’s resolution to support the future of evangelical scholarship: read more women!
I have an easy New Year’s resolution for you, if you would like to support the future of evangelical (and, really, Christian) scholarship: read more women.
Frank Bruni offers his “best sentences of 2023”
Here is Bruni at The New York Times: Over recent days, I took on a daunting task — but a delightful one. I reviewed all the passages of prose featured in the For the Love of Sentences section of my Times […]
Back in 1962 The Twilight Zone tackled the crisis of the humanities
It seems like there is an article on the fate of the humanities published every week these days. For example, check out Agnes Callard’s recent essay at The New York Times: “I Teach the Humanities, and I Still Don’t Know […]
On the “poverty of anti-wokeness”
Over at Compact, writer Geoff Shullenberger reviews five books on “wokeness.” They are: Frederik deBoer, How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement Richard Hanania, The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics Yascha […]
Yes, universities should offer courses on Taylor Swift
Should Harvard offer courses on Taylor Swift? Of course it should. Everyone is talking about a course at Harvard titled “Taylor Swift and Her World.” Here is some context from Stephanie Burt, the English professor who will be teaching the […]
Creek
What dimension of eternity is in your sights?