I’m in Boston this week with a great group of history and social studies teachers from Roanoke, Virginia. We are exploring the colonial and revolutionary history of the city. The week-long seminar was made possible by the Gilder-Lehrman Institute of […]
Archives for June 2024
REVIEW: Gun Country
The Eisenhower administration helped arm America to the teeth. Who knew?
If Trump=Jesus, who is Jerry Springer?
Trump supporters who portray their leader as Jesus should recognize Springer as John the Baptist.
The End of Roe: Two Years Later
In the absence of a unifying vision, turmoil takes its toll
Ethics and Public Policy Center’s encouraging report on two years after Dobbs (and some discouraging thoughts too)
Patrick Brown’s report on states and family-friendly policies two years after Dobbs is a must-read.
More questions about Cornerstone University’s decision to fire humanities professors
Not familiar with this story? Get up to speed here and here and here. Cornerstone University is trying to refute our claims that it has eliminated all arts and humanities programs. In an interview with MinistryWatch blogger Warren Cole Smith, Cornerstone spokesperson Heide […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What can Joe Biden learn from the Lincoln-Douglas debates? In Phoenix, water and political dysfunction are connected. Summer camp Garry Wills on Mother Jones Women and refugee settlements in the […]
Cornerstone University alumni react to the termination of Arts, Music, and Humanities programs
Cornerstone University recently terminated its Arts, Music, and Humanities programs. Tenured faculty were fired. Get up to speed here and here. Some of our sources in Grand Rapids have gathered these comments from Cornerstone alums and former students: A Journalism […]
Volunteers and prayers are keeping the doors open at a Pennsylvania Christian college
Back in the day, when I was a student at Philadelphia College of Bible (now Cairn University), we used to play a school from Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania called Baptist Bible College (BBC). The BBC Defenders basketball team dominated the now-defunct […]
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:
Blessing of Unicorns: Fairy tales, books, exvangelicals, summer, and Roman warfare
Blessing of Unicorns: Featuring fairy tales with the gory bits left in, books, exvangelicals, summer, and Roman battle scenes in movies.
SUMMERING: Flunking Summer
To steward time well requires a crucial admission: We do not control it
“Welcome to East Beltline Trade and Vocational School”
David L. Turner, a former professor at Cornerstone University’s Cornerstone Theological Seminary (formerly Grand Rapids Theological Seminary), reflects on the recent cuts to Humanities and Arts programs at Cornerstone. Here is a taste of his blog post: Bad news about […]
The Harlem Renaissance librarians
We don’t normally think about librarians when we talk about the revival of African-American culture in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. But as Jennifer Schuessler notes in a recent piece at The New York Times, scholars are starting to […]
Grading robots?
I am heading back to the classroom in August after a year-long sabbatical. I am wondering just how much has changed since I left, especially in terms of student use of AI. Here is Beth McMurtrie at The Chronicle of […]
Eric Metaxas will interview Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
I am sure there will be a lot of anti-vax conversation when these two guys get together. Metaxas is charging $100 for the event. Learn more here. I wonder if they will discuss some of these recent Metaxas tweets:
Interview: Joshua Kinlaw on the classics and classical education
Classical Education’s best motto: “Let the kids read!”
REVIEW: Striving—Not Stuck—in the Middle
Only dead people rest easily in boxes
Jenna Ellis pleads “not guilty” to felony charges in Arizona
Jenna Ellis is back in the news today. The lawyer who helped Donald Trump try to overturn the 2020 presidential election, and an outspoken evangelical Christian, pleaded “not guilty” today to forgery, fraud, and conspiracy charges in the Arizona “fake […]
Why do WFAN’s Sal Licata and Mike Francesca hate Grimace?
OK, it’s time to take a quick break from Trump, evangelicalism, and the problems with higher education. Friday is the first day of summer. Time for a little fun! As some of you know, I am a fan of the […]