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Eric Miller

Eric Miller is Professor of History and the Humanities at Geneva College, where he directs the honors program. His books include Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch, and Brazilian Evangelicalism in the Twenty-First Century: An Inside and Outside Look (co-edited with Ronald J. Morgan). He is the Editor of Current.

Hiroshima 2025

Eric Miller   |  April 4, 2025

Renewed global order must fire our hearts and hopes

REVIEW: Renaissance Man

Eric Miller   |  February 28, 2025

Charlie Peacock’s memoir drives deep into evangelicalism’s historic twentieth-century turn

Our favorite essays of 2024 from other little magazines

John Fea, Eric Miller, Robert Erle Barham, Agnes Howard, Timothy Larsen, Dixie Dillon Lane and Nadya Williams   |  December 19, 2024

More of our favorite things!

Some of our favorite things II: Current writers and editors reflect on 2024

Eric Miller, Elizabeth Stice, John H. Haas and Nadya Williams   |  December 18, 2024

The beauty that made 2024 for us

FORUM: Election 2024, Part II

Jon D. Schaff, Elizabeth Stice and Eric Miller   |  November 12, 2024

A time to be silent, a time to speak

Please Walk on the Grass

Eric Miller   |  August 15, 2024

Toronto helps us remember the promise of the word ‘social’ 

REVIEW: Animal Spirits?

Eric Miller   |  July 26, 2024

Jackson Lears takes us where few historians have dared—or even seen

SUMMERING: Follow the Tease

Eric Miller   |  June 11, 2024

On the return of ‘warmth, bloom, and song’

Bring the Family

Eric Miller   |  May 24, 2024

At 71, John Hiatt’s still showing us how it’s done

Swing Low

Eric Miller   |  March 22, 2024

This election season Pennsylvanians have come out swinging—again

FORUM: Christopher Lasch (II)

Susan McWilliams Barndt, Dominic A. Aquila and Eric Miller   |  February 15, 2024

Thirty years after Lasch’s death, how should we remember him?

Authentic Humanity

Eric Miller   |  January 29, 2024

In search of the real thing

Ideas in progress: Eric Miller on Wendell Berry and localism

Eric Miller   |  December 29, 2023

“I’m preoccupied with discovering ways to help us, in our communities, catch and maintain sight of wholeness, health, holiness—that whole constellation of ancient, utterly crucial words that describe what we’re made to be, what human flourishing looks like.”

Remembering December

Eric Miller   |  December 22, 2023

Note by note, George Winston kept “holy” and “holiday” together

Ideas in progress: Eric Miller on Wendell Berry and localism

Eric Miller   |  March 7, 2023

What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? My book’s working title is “A Strange and Abiding Hope: […]

We Live Together

Eric Miller   |  January 16, 2023

King shows us that brotherhood starts with our neighbors—and neighborhoods

The World on Sand

Eric Miller   |  December 8, 2022

To see our global moment, we need look no further than the Qatari pitch

REVIEW: Listening to Old Voices

Eric Miller   |  November 17, 2022

Berry’s late stories sing of gratitude and grace

INTERVIEW: Christopher Shannon on American Catholic History

Eric Miller   |  September 6, 2022

Shannon’s new book American Pilgrimage extends an invitation: Come and see

Big Promise Ahead

Eric Miller   |  August 29, 2022

Today political power is king. Does it really rule?

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