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Jay Green

Jay Green is Professor of History at Covenant College. His books include Christian Historiography: Five Rival Versions and Confessing History: Explorations of Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation (edited with John Fea and Eric Miller). He is Managing Editor at Current.

The Baptismal Vows of Michael Corleone

Jay Green   |  June 8, 2023

The crisis of leadership in contemporary religion and politics is rooted not in hypocrisy but in nihilism

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East Palestine, Asbury, and some notes on my mom

Jay Green   |  February 23, 2023

My mother hails from East Palestine, Ohio. Her roots there run deep. Around 1908, her grandfather left his Tyler, West Virginia home with his young family—including their toddler son, George, my grandfather—in search of steady work. They traveled north up...

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The Promise and Peril of David French’s New York Times Perch

Jay Green   |  February 3, 2023

French’s ascent reflects the nation’s zeitgeist. Will he be able to resist it?

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FORUM: In Quest of a Liberal Framework

Jay Green   |  December 20, 2022

If liberalism as an ideology is flawed, as a governing framework it remains indispensable

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A Further Response to My Critics

Jay Green   |  December 7, 2022

The day after Current published my essay, “The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse,” amid a barrage of criticism over the names I selected to illustrate the “emancipatory maximalist” quadrant, I responded.  I conceded a few of the more blatant...

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FORUM: The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse

Jay Green   |  November 28, 2022

To understand our moment, we need to move beyond the left-right spectrum

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The Baptismal Vows of Michael Corleone

Jay Green   |  August 2, 2022

The crisis of leadership in contemporary religion and politics is rooted not in hypocrisy but in nihilism

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The Strange Bedfellows of Anti-Woke Alarmism

Jay Green   |  May 13, 2022

The confessions of a recovering culture warrior

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Speaking Faithfully to the Faithful: The Conference on Faith and History

Jay Green   |  March 30, 2022

Can scholars keep partisan activism from derailing their primary task: truth-telling?

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The Empty Faculty Lounge and the Demise of Pre-Pandemic Habits

Jay Green   |  March 9, 2022

If gathering and sharing our lives seems oh-so-2019, we’re in trouble

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John Lennon and the Ghost of Culture Wars Future

Jay Green   |  December 16, 2021

Peter Jackson’s new documentary transports us back to a radically different world—one that feels strangely familiar

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CURRENT and the #Exvangelical Dilemma

Jay Green   |  August 10, 2021

Young evangelicals are abandoning Christianity with increasing frequency. Are sites like CURRENT nudging them toward the exits?

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Stolen Valor and the American Persecution Complex

Jay Green   |  June 12, 2021

What do contemporary Christians living in America have to learn from Christians around the world experiencing actual persecution?

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Lee Greenwood Christianity

Jay Green   |  May 29, 2021

This September, coinciding with the twentieth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks on Washington D.C. and New York City, a marketing agency in Nashville called Elite Source Pro will release the God Bless the USA Bible. In addition to a large-print...

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Reading George Marsden with Gen Z

Jay Green   |  May 20, 2021

If the cultural détente of the 1990s seems like a dream, Marsden’s outrageous idea retains its force

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Complexity Training

Jay Green   |  April 16, 2021

After a year that defies comprehension, how do we achieve a proportional response?

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