Archives for March 2024

Sunday night odds and ends

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A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why was Joseph Epstein fired from the editorship of the American Scholar. George Will’s baseball quiz David Brooks on liberalism Andrew Sullivan on Trump and the God Bless the USA […]

President Joe Biden’s Easter proclamation

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Happy Easter. Here is today’s Easter message from Joe and Jill Biden: Jill and I send our warmest wishes to Christians around the world celebrating Easter Sunday. Easter reminds us of the power of hope and the promise of Christ’s […]

What is popular this week at Current?

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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:

Atonement

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Christ’s atoning sacrifice frees us from our efforts to atone for ourselves. That’s the enduring power of the cross. And on Good Friday, we remind ourselves that our guilt really has been taken away and our sin atoned for.

Evangelical roundup for March 28, 2024

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What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals want more sermons on immigration. Russian evangelicals condemn a terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall and rejects calls for revenge. Karen Swallow Prior on Al Mohler and abortion abolitionists NOT cross buns […]

Infrastructure funding and the pro-life agenda

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I wrote this piece for Religion News Service back in 2021. I am re-upping it today: In the early 19th century, during America’s first era of infrastructure development, Christians were some of the country’s strongest supporters of what were then […]

The miracle of suffering

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The Passion of Christ is a mystery of undeserved rejection, friends who hurt you, and knowing that your suffering will break your parents’ hearts. And yes, the Passion is pain that saves.

Another liberal arts college is closing

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Birmingham-Southern College, a United Methodist liberal arts college that opened before the Civil War (1856), is closing on May 31. Here is Alabama.Com: After a long fight for a loan from the Alabama legislature, Birmingham-Southern College announced Tuesday that it […]

The Author’s Corner with Shaun S. Nichols

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Shaun S. Nichols is Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University. This interview is based on his new book, Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2024). JF: What led […]