Megan Basham’s theology is compromised and her history misguided
Archives for September 2024
The art of living: Anthony Bourdain
This installment in The Art of Living series considers celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain.
The Author’s Corner with Amanda E. Hayes
Amanda E. Hayes is Associate Professor of English at Kent State University Tuscarawas. This interview is based on her new book, The Madison Women: Gender, Higher Education, and Literacy in Nineteenth-Century Appalachia (West Virginia University Press, 2024). JF: What led […]
Writing to figure it out
Check out Mitch Therieau‘s recent review of Greil Marcus’s What Nails It. Therieau writes: We don’t always nail it. Sometimes the writing overstretches, sometimes it manhandles its objects or produces a phantom version of them virtually unrecognizable to anyone who […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The “crude division of people into conservatives and progressives” The meaning of the three-fifths clause You should read books Philosophy for the people Is Kamala Harris benefiting from a cultural […]
Haitian evangelicals: GOP ticket “fuels xenophobia and perpetuates damaging stereotypes”
In case you missed it, today on CNN JD Vance doubled-down on the view that Haitian immigrants, here in the country legally, are eating pets in Springfield, Ohio. Watch: Vance comes across as really slimy in this interview. He tells […]
Election Day is 50 days away. What are evangelicals saying?
A group of evangelicals have issued “Our Confession of Evangelical Conviction.” It is essentially an anti-MAGA document. It is signed by some well-known evangelicals with big platforms. What strikes me about the statement is how it defines “evangelical.” It defines […]
Some conservatives cringe whenever the Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025” is mentioned
If you don’t want to read Project 2025, we summarized the key themes in our coverage of the Heritage Foundation’s “Policy Fest” at the Republican National Convention in July. Here is Michael Schaffer at Politico: Whenever Vice President Kamala Harris […]
Blessing of Unicorns: Platonists of Illinois and the Hegelians of St. Louis, natural law, Inklings on the move, and more!
This week, meet the Platonists of Illinois and the Hegelians of St. Louis, Prickly Porcupine on Natural Law, Inklings on the move, childcare policy, Pindar, and more.
Pope Francis: Donald Trump and Kamala Harris are “against life”
On a recent flight from Singapore to Rome, Anna Matranga of CBS News had a question for Pope Francis: Your Holiness, you have always spoken in defence of the dignity of life. In Timor-Leste, which has a high birth rate, […]
“Only the curious have something to find”
We have now come to the point where *60 Minutes* is taking MAGA prophet Lance Wallnau seriously
Here is Wallnau talking about the “The Fourth Turning.” If you are not familiar with the idea of the Fourth Turning, here is a taste of my recent piece at Commonweal: In virtually all his public appearances, [Steve] Bannon references […]
The Author’s Corner with Vanessa Meikle Schulman
Vanessa Meikle Schulman is Associate Professor of Art History at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Art during Wartime: Painting Everyday Life in the Civil War North (University of Massachusetts Press, 2024). JF: What led […]
Creation at the Crossroads Conference in Madison, Wisconsin
Christian pastors concerned about creation care will gather next week in Madison, Wisconsin for the annual Creation Care at the Crosswords conference sponsored by the Lausanne/World Evangelical Alliance Creation Care Network and the Loka Initiative at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. […]
How Taylor Swift can save democracy
OK, Taylor endorsed Kamala. That’s a start. But if Swift really wants to make a difference she can act on her endorsement. Why not use her great wealth to create a pro-Harris super Pac in her home state of Pennsylvania? […]
The Sin of Sycophancy
Billy Graham was willing to damage his ministry to get Nixon elected in 1972
Interview: Timothy Larsen on George MacDonald’s Diary of an Old Soul
Timothy Larsen is the McManis Professor of Christian Thought and Professor of History at Wheaton College. He is a Contributing Editor at Current and as of this summer, the author of four books on the nineteenth-century Scottish George MacDonald. This […]
The golden age of Wisconsin socialism
Here is historian Joshua Kluever at Jacobin on the rich history of Wisconsin socialism: From 1905 to 1945, the Wisconsin legislature passed over five hundred pieces of socialist-authored legislation. They accomplished this despite never holding more than 20 percent of […]
The Little Art Gallery
How far will you let comfort take you?
Deadly reporting
Double Jeopardy for $1,000: Members of this occupation set up the deaths of thousands of Gaza residents.