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The chair of Cornerstone University’s Board of Trustees responds to the school’s cuts in arts and humanities (UPDATED)
Are you new to this story? Get up to speed here. The alumni of Cornerstone University recently received this statement from Richard S. Koole, chair of the Cornerstone University Board. Current was able to obtain a copy: Fellow Alumni, Like […]
Religion News Service on the crisis at Cornerstone University
Here is Kathryn Post: Meredith Mead, a conservative Christian with a love of words, enrolled in Cornerstone University three years ago, choosing the 83-year-old nondenominational school in Grand Rapids, Michigan, over other top Christian schools because of its creative writing […]
Song of the Day
Cornerstone University alumni push back on school cuts to arts and humanities program
As many of you know, we have been covering the cuts at Cornerstone University. Get up to speed here. Members of the Cornerstone University community have come together to form a new website: “VOICE OF CU: Coming together to shed […]
SUMMERING: Anomie
The annual check-up on our capacity for joy
Ideas in Progress: Zachary Sheldon on Christian media, Ellul, and the journey to his dissertation and first book
“Ellul’s perspective on the deployment of media techniques in the service of Christian faith continued to haunt me, for lack of a better term.”
When a Holocaust denier took down a Christian college professor
Some of you may recall our May 2024 post on Matthew Warner, a communication professor who was fired by Grace College, an evangelical school in Winona Lake, Indiana. Warner was targeted by the Christian Right because he published some tweets […]
GOP political activist David Barton responds to Trump’s Republican Party platform
If you have not been following this GOP platform debate, get up to speed here and here. David Barton, the GOP political activist who uses the American past to promote his activism, was a member of the 2024 GOP platform […]
“What a mess”: Conservative intellectual Robert George responds to the GOP platform
Last night we noted that not all conservatives are happy with Donald Trump’s GOP platform. Get up to speed here. Conservative intellectual Robert George has weighed-in: Here is George’s full statement, as posted in Denny Burk’s tweet: Every four years […]
Albert Mohler: “I want to maximize the Christian commitments of the state, the civilization”
The National Conservatives are meeting this week in Washington D.C. Speakers include Stephen Miller (Trump immigration adviser), John Eastman (indicted lawyer who tried to help Trump steal the 2020 election), Walter Russell Mead (Bard College), Megan Basham (MAGA writer), R.R. […]
Eric Metaxas on why ministers who don’t preach politics, and Christians who attend their churches, are under judgment
Billy Hallowell interviews Eric Metaxas on Christians and politics. Watch: OK, let’s break this down: 00:50: I think Metaxas really believes he is a prophet from God. He seems to know the will of the God. This makes sense, because […]
The Dems’ Biggest Problem Isn’t Biden’s Age
Trump will likely win. But does anyone but Biden stand a chance of beating him?
Questions and presidents
Questions around William McKinley’s inauguration offer useful parallels for the present.
Some on the Christian Right are unhappy with the 2024 GOP platform
Today the GOP platform committee met in Milwaukee. As we noted over the weekend, there was some debate over whether the platform should have a statement calling for a national ban on abortion. Donald Trump, the presumptive nominee, does not […]
Democrats are divided on what to do about Biden
They also seemed divided in their own heads. Here is Ashley Parker at The Washington Post: The Monday after President Biden’s dismal debate, Rep. James E. Clyburn (D-S.C.) — who helped deliver the Democratic nomination to Biden four years ago […]
E.J. Dionne comes close to calling for Biden to step down
Here is The Washington Post columnist: Of course Biden remains hugely preferable to Trump. But reporters aren’t making up the alarm they are hearing from Democratic politicians. Many who worry that his candidacy is unsustainable have been holding back out […]
Richard Mouw: Theocracy and pluralism are compatible
Mouw‘s recent piece at Christianity Today is subtitled “God’s rule is inherently true and doesn’t require that we force it on anyone.” Here is a taste: Truth be told, my wife and I do belong to a pro-theocracy organization. Indeed, […]
Actually, Panic Looks Good on DemocratsÂ
It’s time to ditch the playbook and forget about ‘the narrative’
The Olympic Trials, the trials of life, and televised lessons for living
Olympic Trials are an education in character–for athletes and possibly the viewers too.