The watcher is not alone
Archives for December 2024
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Arts and Letters Daily is featuring Current‘s best little magazine articles from 2024 roundup. David French, an evangelical, chats with Jonathan Rauch, an atheist about the religion and democracy Michael […]
Mangione did not commit an act of “political violence.” He committed an act of “anti-political violence”
A lot to chew on here. From the editors of Commonweal: In a guest essay in the New York Times, the bioethicist Travis N. Rieder argued that one must be able to understand the anger that seems to have motivated Thompson’s killer while […]
Is left-wing illiberalism dead?
After living through the Dan Feller-SHEAR controversy and the James Sweet-AHA affair, the latter of which had a lot to do with my resignation as president of the Conference on Faith and History, I hope the illiberal fever that spread […]
The Author’s Corner with Mark A. Neels
Mark A. Neels is a History Teacher at Chaminade College Preparatory School. This interview is based on his new book, Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor: Attorney General Edward Bates (Southern Illinois University Press, 2024). JF: What led you to write Lincoln’s Conservative Advisor? […]
CURRENT’s unique voice would not exist without your support
Every now and then I write a post to ask you to become a Current member to help sustain this little online magazine. Current‘s unique voice would not exist without your support. Please consider becoming a member today so that […]
Interview: Robert Edwards on John Chrysostom’s Consolation to Stagirius
What one Church Father’s advice to a suffering monk can teach us now.
REVIEW: Van Gogh Might Break Your Heart Too
What does it mean to be alive?
Did any evangelicals “hold their nose” and vote for Donald Trump in 2024?
At Baptist News Global, Robert Jones discusses the recent post-election findings from the Public Religion Research Institute. He writes: There is no evidence to support what I have identified as two “zombie myths” (because they just won’t die despite lack […]
Albert Mohler “hopes and prays” that Jimmy Carter is saved
I don’t have two hours and forty minutes to listen to Sean DeMars’s interview with Albert Mohler, so I am glad that Mark Wingfield did. Here are a few snippets of his piece at Baptist News Global: Toward the end […]
Our favorite essays of 2024 from other little magazines
More of our favorite things!
LONG FORM: The Responsibility of Christian Intellectuals in the Age of Trump
How should we think, write, and speak?
Some of our favorite things II: Current writers and editors reflect on 2024
The beauty that made 2024 for us
A Modest Proposal to End Insanity, Part III
Tribal thinking isn’t thinking
The Washington D.C. Archdiocese to Sean Feucht: Please get off our lawn
Here is MAGA worship leader Sean Feucht: Here Ruth Graham at The New York Times “Trump Transition” blog: Sean Feucht, a prominent conservative Christian activist with ties to President-elect Donald J. Trump, announced this week that he would headline a […]
Pope Francis tells jokes
And in The New York Times no less! Here is a taste of Pope Francis’s “There Is Faith in Humor“: Jokes about and told by Jesuits are in a class of their own, comparable maybe only to those about the carabinieri […]
Some of our favorite things I: Current writers and editors reflect on 2024
These are a few of our favorite things from 2024.
Review: One Year in the Future of Medicine
Learning from the textbook of the community
Just how “Mormon” is Mitt Romney’s political theology?
Mitt Romney left the U.S. Senate this week. Over at The Dispatch, Samuel Benson reflects on his “farewell address.” A taste: …There are some today who would tear at our unity, who would replace love with hate, who deride our […]
Waiting for a Realignment
We must cultivate the setting for a better politics