On February 12, 2023, Thomas White, the president of Cedarville University in Cedarville, Ohio, tweeted this: Lo and behold, Cedarville is now having a revival. Read this story in the campus newspaper. White announced the revival in a chapel service […]
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What is going on at Taylor University?
Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: A veteran English professor at a leading evangelical university has lost her job — in part because a school official deemed her writing classes too liberal on the issue of race. Julie […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 23, 2023 (10:50PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. This is the last night of services at Asbury University. Tonight was the Collegiate Day of Prayer. Asbury was scheduled to host this […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 19, 2023 (9:30pm)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury President Kevin Brown. Live streaming will begin. He also addresses claims that Asbury is trying to end the revival. Here is the […]
Asbury revival roundup: February 17 at 9:10PM. The meetings will move off the Asbury University campus.
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. There is now a Wikipedia page. The latest message from the Asbury University president. The revival meetings will no longer take place at […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 14, 2023 (7:45pm)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Some students are concerned about their safety. Today an alum with strong connections to Asbury wrote to me: “Our students are not coming […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 14, 2023 at 1:30am
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A visitor from Northern Ohio on FB: We are from Northern Ohio. On Thursday we heard about “Revival at Asbury” It’s been going […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 12, 2022 at 2:38pm update
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. It seems the religious left has learned about the revival and just don’t know what to do with it: A […]
As promised, Jon Meacham will lecture at Samford University
Back in November, I wrote a piece at Current titled “Canceling Jon Meacham.” Here is a taste of that piece: …I thought about Meacham’s visit to Messiah, a Christian university with strong ties to American evangelicalism, when I learned that […]
COVID-19 continues to sweep through the Liberty University campus
488 cases and over 1000 students in quarantine. Get up to speed here and here. Here is the local ABC affiliate: Even though Liberty University implemented a temporary campus-wide quarantine on Monday, the total number of active coronavirus cases and […]
Members of the Liberty University community speak-out about COVID-19 spike and move to online learning
Last night we posted about the rise in COVID-19 cases at Liberty University and Cedarville University. Here is how students and other community members are responding to Liberty University’s “temporary period of mitigation.” Nearly 500 students and employees are in […]
COVID-19 cases on the rise at Liberty University; classes move online.
Here is the press release: As part of its ongoing monitoring of positive COVID-19 rates on campus as well as active community cases and local hospital capacity, Liberty University administration announced on Thursday that it is enacting a temporary mitigation […]
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Volunteers and prayers are keeping the doors open at a Pennsylvania Christian college
Back in the day, when I was a student at Philadelphia College of Bible (now Cairn University), we used to play a school from Clarks Summit, Pennsylvania called Baptist Bible College (BBC). The BBC Defenders basketball team dominated the now-defunct […]
Evangelical roundup for January 25, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Christianity Today on the New Hampshire primary. Are young evangelicals “drifting” from Israel? Should we really expect evangelicals to come out looking good in this promotional event for Rob Reiner’s new film? Greek evangelicals […]
Why do Christian college administrators see “faculty as a political block to be managed at best and a group to be overridden at worst.”
John Hawthorne, a sociologist who was an administrator at multiple Christian colleges, is writing a book titled The Fearless Christian University. Here is a taste of his recent Substack post: “Three Problematic Metaphors in Christian Higher Education“: Looking at Christian […]
Evangelical roundup for September 14, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals talk to the dead. Is “Christian Right” an oxymoron? An evangelical higher education “hole” in New York City. Evangelicals against the death penalty in Florida. Russell Moore: “Culture war is not spiritual warfare.” […]
Jenna Ellis jumped on the Trump train. Now she has a mug shot.
Jenna Ellis is perhaps the best example of an evangelical Christian who built her entire career and public persona around Donald Trump. No one knew who she was before 2017,. She was homeschooled, attended Cedarville University (she later transfered to […]
Evangelical roundup for May 1, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Do college educated evangelicals prefer DeSantis over Trump? Point Loma Nazarene University is the latest Christian college to deal with a controversy over LGBTQ issues. Evangelicals working with the climate lobby. Sometimes atheists and […]
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