Here is Meghan Overdeep at Southern Living: As Jimmy Carter nears his 16th month in hospice care at his home in Plains, Georgia, his grandson, Jason Carter, says thereâs âreally been no changeâ in the former presidentâs condition. Jason, 48, the oldest of […]
Archives for June 2024
Race, Class, and Religion in a Northern New Jersey Town
I had no idea âborn-again Christiansâ were living in my midst
“Popular information”
An alleged Christian Nationalist training program for Florida public school teachers may be a nothing-burger after all.
A Palestinian Baptist laments the Southern Baptist Convention’s decisions on the Middle East
Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and a member of Amman Baptist Church in Jordan. He runs a news website that covers the Christian community in Jordan and the Palestinian territories. He is also a 1975 graduate of Messiah […]
The Southern Baptist Convention messengers reject the so-called “Law Amendment”
Today at their annual meeting in Indianapolis the Southern Baptist Convention rejected an amendment that would change the denomination’s constitution to clarify that the only kind of church in friendly cooperation with the convention is one that âaffirms, appoints, or […]
Heer: “Unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Donald Trump will never be a traitor to his class. He is, in truth, an accurate embodiment of it.”
According to the BBC, American billionaires are “rallying behind Trump” in the wake of his felony conviction. Jeet Heer of The Nation has some thoughts on that. A taste: Trumpâs wealthy supporters are not going to be convinced by the […]
The Author’s Corner with Rebecca Wellington
Rebecca Wellington is a Clinical Instructor and Director of Field Placements in the School of Education at the University of Puget Sound. This interview is based on her new book, Who Is a Worthy Mother?: An Intimate History of Adoption […]
REVIEW: Slow Productivity
Slowing downâbut for what?
Daniel K. Williams reviews “Two Visions for an Evangelical Reformation” in Christian Scholar’s Review
In their recent books, Russell Moore and Karen Swallow Prior offer two visions for an evangelical reformation.
Mike Pence on Joe Biden: “I canât think of a thing heâs done that I agree with”
Mike Pence spoke to the Southern Baptists in Indianapolis today. Here is Adele Banks at Religion News Service: Former Vice President Mike Pence addressed Southern Baptists at a luncheon event focused on public service where he criticized President Joe Biden, […]
If you want to get a sense of the state of conservative Christianity in America, check out the responses to David French’s recent New York Times piece
On Sunday we covered David French’s New York Times piece on getting canceled–literally canceled–by his former church, the Presbyterian Church in America. In that piece, we included some survey data I collected back in 2020 about how Trump, politics generally, […]
“The success narratives of modern liberal life leave little room for having a family.”
Here is Anastasia Berg and Rachel Wiseman at The New York Times: For young, secular, politically progressive men and women, having children has become something of an afterthought. Liberal conventional wisdom encourages people to spend their 20s on journeys of […]
“Donât want more immigrants in this country? Then tell grandma she can never retire.”
Here is Catherine Rampell at The Washington Post: As Iâve noted before, immigrants are driving the U.S. economic boom. That is: The United States has escaped recession, hiring growth has exceeded expectation, and inflation has cooled faster than predicted â all […]
$4000 for a book review at The New York Review of Books?
Christine Smallwood reflects on the practice of book reviewing. Here is a taste: Whatever is going on in the life of the critic is going to show up in her reading; it canât not. Reading, writing, and thinking have experiential […]
The director of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center denounces “moral chaos” at other schools.
You really can’t make this stuff-up. Here is Religion News Service’s Bob Smietana reporting on Ryan Helfenbein’s speech at today’s MAGA-sideshow in Indianapolis. Helfenbein is a Vice President at Liberty University and director of the Standing for Freedom Center at […]
The quiet death of an academic Classics journal
What does the death of Ramus mean for publishing in the humanities?
The Author’s Corner with David Alff
David Alff is Associate Professor of English at The State University of New York, University at Buffalo. This interview is based on his new book, The Northeast Corridor: The Trains, the People, the History, the Region (University of Chicago Press, […]
SUMMERING: Follow the Tease
On the return of âwarmth, bloom, and songâ
James Lawson training Nashville students in non-resistance
James Lawson passed away today. Here is Lawson training Nashville young people in non-violence. It’s from a documentary titled “A Force More Powerful.”
James Lawson, RIP
Lawson was the non-violent activist who mentored the young men and women involved in the Nashville Student Movement. I had a chance to meet one of his students, Rip Patton, in June 2017. I wrote a little bit about my […]