Over at The Atlantic, Peter Wehner worries about the future of conservativism if Trump wins: The strongest case for voting for Harris doesn’t have nearly as much to do with her as it has to do with her opponent. Trump remains […]
Archives for October 2024
REVIEW: Stone Circles
Stonehenge is not alone
5 days until Election Day: What are evangelicals saying?
Chad Harvey is a Trump-supporting Pentecostal pastor in North Carolina. Scott Detrow of National Public Radio recently interviewed him about his political convictions. Here is a small taste: Detrow: Let me just ask the direct question about this with Trump. […]
Six parties may not be enough
This week’s NYT short quiz with six political “parties” options shows that even six may not be enough.
The Author’s Corner with Hunter Price
Hunter Price is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty (University of Virginia Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
6 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
An evangelical pastor in Ligonier, Pennsylvania is still an undecided voter. He doesn’t read anything about national politics until one week before the election. According Olga Khazan at The Atlantic, this pastor is not alone. A taste: When Bryan Jarrell, […]
Where Do Dead Babies Go?
Personhood laws matter for the living—and the dead
Abortion and prohibition: will the 2024 election be like 1932?
This year’s treatment of abortion by both major parties is reminiscent of how both parties engaged with the issue of alcohol regulation in 1932, the last election before the end of Prohibition.
Bruce Springsteen or Ta-Nehisi Coates?
Dave Masciotra compares Bruce Springsteen’s liberalism with Ta-Nehisi Coates’s progressivism: By the turn of the century, the New Jersey native had already established himself as a rock and roll legend. But his artistic reaction to 9/11 enhanced his importance. Less […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthias AndrĂ© Voigt
Matthias AndrĂ© Voigt is Part-Time Lecturer in Modern American History at Free University Berlin. This interview is based on his new book, Reinventing the Warrior: Masculinity in the American Indian Movement, 1968-1973 (University Press of Kansas, 2024). JF: What led […]
Wisconsin bound!
This post is both a travel update and some personal and professional news. I will be in Wisconsin this week for a retreat with the staff and fellows of newly formed Lumen Center for the Study of Christianity and Culture. […]
Religion and the election in Pennsylvania
Ivey DeJesus of the Harrisburg Patriot-News and Peter Smith of the Associated Press are covering Christianity and the 2024 presidential election in Pennsylvania. I was happy to help them with their stories. Here is a taste of DeJesus’s piece, “Some […]
The Author’s Corner with David M. Emmons
David M. Emmons is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Montana. This interview is based on his new book, History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930 (University of Illinois Press, 2024). JF: What […]
7 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Yesterday Donald Trump spoke to the members of his National Faith Advisory Board’s National Faith Summit in Powder Springs, Georgia. Newsweek covers it here. Watch: At about the 29:55 mark, Paula White says “we believe that God has saved you […]
Daniel K. Williams on “The Politics of the Cross”
Daniel Hummel of The Lumen Center in Madison, Wisconsin interviews Current contributing Daniel K. Williams about his book The Politics of the Cross: A Christian Alternative to Partisanship. Watch:
Faithful Hope
It begins with naming failures
Against early voting
Early voting doesn’t increase voter turnout and has underexplored downsides.
Trump at Madison Square Garden: “A closing argument of grievances, misogyny, and racism”
It is very likely that more than seventy million Americans are going to vote for Donald Trump on November 5. Reporters from The New York Times chronicled what happened yesterday at Madison Square Garden First, there was this: A comic […]
No Josh Hawley, the United States was not “founded on revival”
I included this in today’s roundup, but I wanted to call attention to it again. Yesterday Missouri senator Josh Hawley spoke at MAGA worship leader Sean Feucht’s Washington D.C. rally. Here is part of what he said: It’s a privilege […]
8 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
David French has been a never-Trump from the beginning and he hasn’t wavered. Yesterday at The New York Times he offered four lessons he has learned during his nine years of never-Trumpism. They are: See how French unpacks these points […]