Reed recently talked with Michael Scherer, a political reporter at The Washington Post, about why his organization is endorsing Trump. Here is a taste: MR. SCHERER: I want to start with the news last week. We had the felony conviction […]
Archives for June 2024
Tony Evans: “I am stepping away from my pastoral duties and am submitting to a healing and restoration process established by the elders…”
It looked like the biggest story from Evangelical land today was going to be the annual meetings of the Southern Baptist Convention and Presbyterian Church in America. Then this story broke on the website of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, the […]
Still thinking about voting for Trump in November? Check out his last rally
I realize that most voters already have their minds made up. But if you are still undecided, I would encourage you, especially if you are a Christian, to think about whether you want this guy as your president again. Here […]
Jon Lauck and the history of the Midwest
I recently read Jon Lauck’s excellent history of the 2004 South Dakota Senate race between John Thune and Tom Daschle. Daschle v. Thune: Anatomy of a High-Plains Senate Race is one of the many Lauck books shaping the historical study […]
The Author’s Corner with Jeffrey S. Adler
Jeffrey S. Adler is Professor of History and Criminology and Distinguished Teaching Scholar at the University of Florida. This interview is based on his new book, Bluecoated Terror: Jim Crow New Orleans and the Roots of Modern Police Brutality (University […]
Daniel Okrent on the Immigration Act of 1924
Last month, The Arena ran a piece by historian Jay Green (who is Current‘s Managing Editor) on the 100th anniversary of the Johnson Reed Act. Today, I want to call your attention to the World Socialist Web Site’s interview with […]
Loyalty, Not Merit; Confidence, Not Data
The fight for common sense in everyday life, after social science
Interview: Miles Smith’s Religion and Republic: Christian America from the Founding to the Civil War
The Early Republic saw religion or faith—not “churches” per se—as worthwhile and important for a healthy society.
Eric Metaxas: “Biden is our Hitler”
Eric Metaxas gained fame in 2009 when he published a deeply flawed biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that was universally panned by Bonhoeffer scholars. In 2016, he endorsed Donald Trump for president in a much-discussed Wall Street Journal op-ed. Here are […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: E.J. Dionne: “Europeans seem to grasp the threat to U.S. democracy better than we do.” How Chris Rufo and company went after David Austin Walsh Jonathan Malesic reviews Cal Newport’s […]
When a British announcer calls a Mets win
I love this. I don’t think I have ever heard a person with a British accent call a baseball game. This was much better than both the FOX (Saturday) and ESPN (Sunday) coverage of the London Series between the Mets […]
The Presbyterian Church in America canceled David French. Today he responds.
We have covered this story here at Current. Check out Marvin Olasky’s piece, “David French is on a panel, oh no!” We also published “The Presbyterian Church in America disinvites David French.” Today French gives his own take on what […]
Evangelical blast from the past:
Amy Grant tackles slavery and the Holocaust in 1988:
When Jimmy Breslin took on the French government in defense of Howard Beach, Queens
The good folks at the Library of America (LOA) recently sent along their collection of New York columnist Jimmy Breslin’s essential writings. (Some of you may recall I wrote about this back in April.) I’m about halfway through the collection. […]
Charlie Kirk at evangelical megachurch: Trump and MAGA are fighting against the “very same totalitarianism” Americans fought against in World War II when they “stormed the beaches of Normandy”
The other day someone asked me if I thought Trump and the MAGA crowd really believed their own rhetoric. I don’t know if Charlie Kirk really believes that Joe Biden and the Democrats are comparable to Hitler and the 1930s […]
Apparently Liberty University’s view on abortion does not even allow an exception for the life of the mother
Am I reading this Tweet correctly? It comes from the public voice of Liberty University–the Standing for Freedom Center. The pro-life movement is divided over whether abortions are morally permissible in cases of incest and rape, but Liberty University seems […]
Donald Trump was against TikTok before he was for it
On August 6, 2020, The Trump administration released this executive order: By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) […]
National Association of Evangelicals to Biden: Don’t close the border
Here the press release: The National Association of Evangelicals (NAE) today expressed concern about a new Biden administration order closing the border to most asylum seekers and urged Congress to pass comprehensive legislation fixing our broken immigration system. “While we […]
Trump, MAGA Southern Baptists, and friends will meet in an Indianapolis sideshow
It is not an official Southern Baptist Convention event, but while delegates from the largest Protestant denomination in the country meet next week in Indianapolis, some of the most conservative and Trumpy members of the convention will gather in what […]
JĂĽrgen Moltmann: RIP
I missed this story when I was on the road during the last couple of days. I have learned much from Moltmann’s theology of hope. Here is the end of a 2018 piece on evangelicals and Trump that I wrote […]