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 […]
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Barbarian Virtues
What happens when a post-Christian society begets post-Christian Christianity?
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Not everyone at Howard University is happy Ibram X. Kendi is coming. Against “scholactivism” Ben Franklin and climate change Martha Nussbaum Udi Greenberg reviews The Solidarity Economy: Nonprofits and the […]
REVIEW: A Vindication of Mary Wollstonecraft
Wollstonecraft’s relationship to Christian faith defies partisan classification
LONG FORM: Realism and Restraint, at Home and Abroad
A call for a Christian realism worthy of the name
Kenneth Craycraft’s new book, Citizens Yet Strangers
“We have learned to speak American while forgetting to speak Catholic.”
Dying a Good Death, Living a Good Life
Dorothy Sayers and the redemptive power of the detective genre
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
Serving the Work
What can Dorothy Sayers teach us about intellectual work in a celebrity-driven culture?
Authors I am teaching this semester
Today is the first day of classes! Based on this list of authors, try to guess the two courses I am teaching this semester: Antiquity: 18th Century: 19th Century: 20th Century: Late 20th and 21st Century
“Anti-Intellectualism and the Integration of Faith and Learning”
In September 2017, the founders of Current (Jay Green, Eric Miller, and yours truly) participated in a conference in Indianapolis on the “State of the Evangelical Mind.” (This was 3-4 years before we launched Current). We spoke at a session […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why do conservatives hate theory? The ultimate NFL insider The persistence of Russian nationalism Tali Farhadian Weinstein reviews John Wood Sweet’s The Sewing Girl’s Tale: A Story of Crime and […]
If Roe is overturned, will abortions really come to an end in the United States?
When I was younger I spent some time in Ocean City, New Jersey. Ocean City is located on a barrier island off the Jersey shore. It is also a dry town. In other words, alcohol is not sold within the […]
Are you reading the Christian Scholars Review blog?
The Christian Scholar’s Review (CSR) is “a medium for communication among Christians who have been called to an academic vocation. Its primary objective is the publication of peer-reviewed scholarship and research, within and across the disciplines, that advances the integration of […]
D.C. DISPATCH: Hacks for Jesus
In an age of ideological division, activist Greg Williams makes a case for holy partisanship