Timothy Messer-Kruse is Professor in the School of Cultural and Critical Studies at Bowling Green State University. This interview is based on his new book, Slavery’s Fugitives and the Making of the United States Constitution (LSU Press, 2024). JF: What […]
Archives for October 2024
12 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Why haven’t conservative evangelicals, especially those of the MAGA variety, remained mostly silent about Donald Trump’s line about Arnold Palmer’s genitals? What happened to the Christian Right’s longtime concern about the coarseness of American culture? This morning I was writing […]
Chris Matthews on Liz Cheney
The former host of Hardball tells it like it is:
The Coming Witch Trials
It’s time to care for the community—not cleanse it
Covering up a genitalia remark
A partisan press at work.
The Author’s Corner with Jonathan Lande
Jonathan Lande is Assistant Professor of History at Purdue University. This interview is based on his new book, Freedom Soldiers: The Emancipation of Black Soldiers in Civil War Camps, Courts, and Prisons (Oxford University Press, 2024). JF: What led you […]
Calvin University announces its 13th president
It is Greg Elzinga, the current interim president. Elzinga stepped-in after the departure of disgraced former president Wiebe Boer. Calvin has now removed the “interim” from his title. It looks like a safe move. I am guessing Calvin didn’t want […]
Eerdmans books: kindle sale alert and book recs
Need some new kindle reads? Here’s a list!
A visit to Faulkner University
On Friday I was in Montgomery, Alabama where I was honored to be the plenary speaker at Faulkner University’s Institute of Faith and the Academy Conference. Faulkner is affiliated with the Churches of Christ and it is very serious about […]
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-Riaño calls faculty opposition a “smear campaign” which God gave him the courage to withstand
Not familiar with the tragic and ongoing saga at Cornerstone University? Get up to speed here. In a conversation with Paul Davis, the President of the Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, troubled Cornerstone University President Gerson Moreno-Riaño called opposition […]
The Author’s Corner with Sarah Kornfield
Sarah Kornfield is Associate Professor of Communication and Affiliated Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Hope College. This interview is based on her new book, Invoking the Fathers: Dangerous Metaphors and Founding Myths in Congressional Politics (Johns Hopkins University […]
Anxiety Has Plans
A Pixar film shows the way to mental health
My pleasure: why would you not want to be charming all the time?
Chick-Fil-A employees’ signature answer inspires an important question.
Adam Jortner on the religious diversity of revolutionary-era patriots
Here is a taste of Current contributing editor Adam Jortner’s piece at The Conversation. Jortner is the author, most recently, of A Promised Land: Jewish Patriots, the American Revolution, and the Birth of Religious Freedom. “…belief persists that the American […]
14 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
An evangelical farmer and Presbyterian pastor from Butler County, Pennsylvania is voting for Kamala Harris on November 5. As a farmer, he takes environmental stewardship seriously. So does Harris. As a pastor, he believes it is important to love his […]
On evangelical Mike Johnson and Arnold Palmer’s genitalia
In case you haven’t heard, on Saturday night Donald Trump spent fifteen minutes talking about Arnold Palmer’s “manhood” in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. Watch: Trump is crude and lewd. This is par the course for him. It is also par for the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: How the market transformed American bookstores Goodbye airline magazines Brigham Young University has a Jewish quarterback Thoroeau and slavery Getting an MFA in your living room? MAD magazine Trump’s dehumanizing […]
Bonhoeffer family to Eric Metaxas: “We are horrified to see how the legacy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer is…being distorted and misused…”
Eric Metaxas’s use of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s legacy has caught the attention of the Bonhoeffer family. We’ve covered Metaxas’s misuse of Bonhoeffer here: Charles Marsh unleashes a devastating assault on court evangelical Eric Metaxas’s misuse of Bonhoeffer as it relates to […]
“A Pastoral Letter” to the Cornerstone University administration and board
Some of you are familiar with the collapse of the humanities at Cornerstone University and the attempts by the administration and board to bring the evangelical university in Grand Rapids, Michigan solidly in line with the MAGA right. For those […]
16 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Just stuff from X today: Evangelicals are buzzing about remarks Harris made to pro-life activists who interrupted her recent rally in La Crosse, Wisconsin. Watch: Here is coverage from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: About 20 minutes into Harris’ speech, a […]