A 1940s foreign policy breakthrough is in jeopardy
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The president of Sojourners underestimated the religious right. When magazine writers got paid. Graydon Carter working on the railroad What Alan Simpson asked Robert Bork Why Commonweal changed its mind […]
Pestana: Trump comparisons to George III unfairly malign George III
Here is historian Carla Pestana at The Conversation: George III, king of Great Britain and its colonies at the time of the American Revolution, has been maligned unfairly. During both the first and now the second term of President Donald Trump, commentators in the U.S. […]
Changes at the Museum of the American Revolution
Here is PhillyVoice.Com: Upgrades are underway on the first floor of the Museum of the American Revolution, which soon will house a new video wall, speakers and the Revolution Place discovery center. The Old City museum is moving Revolution Place, […]
How a court evangelical thinks
If you want to get a good sense of how a court evangelical thinks, Jim Garlow‘s recent blog post is a good place to start. Garlow was an active court evangelical during Trump’s first term and earlier this week he […]
Can Religious Higher Education Save Itself?
It’s time to look around the corner
What if the WOMEN’s NCAA tournament was based on academics? An all-Ivy League final
Yesterday we posted on Inside Higher Ed‘s men’s bracket. Today we have the women: Here at Inside Higher Ed, though, we celebrate the start of March Madness a little differently from the 1.44 million people who tuned in earlier this month to this […]
Pivot Points: Chapter 22
Gratitude for a Life
Meaning & Membership
Associations are worth the effort
More on the Georgetown Day School visit to Messiah University
Get up to speed here. This is a taste of Dani Seiss’s article at the Georgetown Day School website: DS’s High School Minimster offers students a unique opportunity to learn about new and varied subjects as they step away from […]
The Court Evangelicals 2.0 gathered today in the White House
Back in the first Trump administration I coined the term “court evangelicals” to describe the evangelical Christians who gathered around Trump. Here is a taste of a piece I wrote in January 2020: Last Friday (Jan. 3), nearly every major […]
What if the NCAA tournament was based on academics? Congratulations, Clemson Tigers!
Inside Higher Ed does this every year and it’s great. Here is Johanna Alonso: To determine the winners, we used the NCAA’s key academic performance metric, known as the academic progress rate, for the 2022–23 academic year, the most recent data […]
The latest from Bluffton University
Last month we reported that Bluffton University, a Mennonite college in Bluffton, Ohio, would not be merging with the University of Findlay. Get up to speed here. Last week at LimaOhio.com, Mackenzi Lemann wrote that the failed merger is “not […]
Bradley Lingo, the current dean of Regent University School of Law, the will be the new president at Grove City College
Here is Maddie Aiken at the Pittsburgh Post Gazette; A familiar face will soon become Grove City College’s next president. Bradley J. Lingo, a Grove City alumnus and the current dean of Regent University School of Law, will serve as […]
Pivot Points: Chapter 21
A Professional Grief Observed
REVIEW: The Scientific Study of Religion We Don’t Need
A study of religion that serves two masters fails in predictable fashion
Trump: “I’m just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do.”
Here is the Associated Press story on Trump’s call for the impeachment of a U.S. District Judge: President Donald Trump said Tuesday that a federal judge who tried to stop his deportation plans should be impeached, escalating his conflict with […]
The inerrancy summit
Liz Charlotte Grant’s Christian Century piece on the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy begins this way: “On October 25, 1978, about 250 White men strode across the orange carpet of the Chicago Hyatt Regency O’Hare’s lobby with a ten-dollar theological […]
What happened to the American pastime?
In 2021, Major League Baseball dumped 42 minor league affiliates. Over at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Will Bardenwerper notes that New York Mets outfielder Juan Soto, with his $765,000,000 contract, “will make in ten at-bats roughly the $700,000 MLB will save […]
Trump is “unilaterally disarming America of its soft power, making the United States no different from China, Russia, or Iran.”
If you want a good overview of Donald Trump’s cuts to USAID, check out George Packer’s piece in the latest issue of The Atlantic. A few snippets: The best way to dismantle the federal government, then repurpose it as a tool […]