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Search Results for: Confident Pluralism

David French’s civic pluralism versus Al Mohler’s Christian nationalism

John Fea   |  November 22, 2022

Last week, the Senate advanced the Respect for Marriage Act. The bill legalizes (“provides statutory authority” for) same-sex and interracial marriages. Here is a summary of the bill from Congress.Gov: Specifically, the bill repeals and replaces provisions that define, for […]

REVIEW: Jesus and the Powers

David Anthony Basham and Joseph K. Griffith II   |  July 2, 2024

In our harum-scarum political moment, the Via Media beckons

Uncut version: Jesus and the Powers (Review)

David Anthony Basham and Joseph K. Griffith II   |  July 2, 2024

This is the full-length, uncut version of the review we are running today at Current.

Searching for Braver Angels

Mark Griffin   |  July 3, 2023

In praise of dissent

Stanley Hauerwas on the Christian church: “My sense is that God is making us leaner.”

John Fea   |  May 21, 2023

Longtime readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of John Inazu’s work, especially his book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Until I read this interview at Inazu’s Substack, I did not realize […]

Is Wellesley College still a women’s college?

John Fea   |  March 15, 2023

In his 2017 book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, Washington University Law Professor John Inazu writes: Wellesley College, an all-women’s school, now confronts internal challenges around its growing transgender student population.  Even though Wellesley admits only women, […]

With Every Victory the Christian Right Becomes Less Christian

John Fea   |  July 28, 2022

When it comes to the witness of the church, the Christian Right brand of politics is unsustainable. The church needs other alternatives.

John Inazu on the anti-woke victory at Grove City College

John Fea   |  April 25, 2022

John Inazu teaches law at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and (with Tim Keller) Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of […]

InterVarsity director at Harvard explains why he voted for the atheist president of the university’s chaplains

John Fea   |  September 3, 2021

Get up to speed here. Pete Williamson is the team leader for InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries at Harvard and a Harvard Chaplain. Here is a taste of his recent piece at Christianity Today: For seven years, I have worked […]

The Catholic conversion of J. D. Vance

Daniel K. Williams   |  July 22, 2024

Now that he is the Republican vice presidential nominee, J. D. Vance is one of the most famous Catholic converts in the United States.

Respecting the Respect for Marriage Act

John Fea   |  December 15, 2022

Evangelicals should stop trying to legislate morality for the nation and tend to their own house