The crisis of leadership in contemporary religion and politics is rooted not in hypocrisy but in nihilism
The Strange Bedfellows of Anti-Woke Alarmism
The confessions of a recovering culture warrior
Speaking Faithfully to the Faithful: The Conference on Faith and History
Can scholars keep partisan activism from derailing their primary task: truth-telling?
The Empty Faculty Lounge and the Demise of Pre-Pandemic Habits
If gathering and sharing our lives seems oh-so-2019, we’re in trouble
John Lennon and the Ghost of Culture Wars Future
Peter Jackson’s new documentary transports us back to a radically different world—one that feels strangely familiar
CURRENT and the #Exvangelical Dilemma
Young evangelicals are abandoning Christianity with increasing frequency. Are sites like CURRENT nudging them toward the exits?
Stolen Valor and the American Persecution Complex
Each Sunday my church prays for people across the globe who face ostracism, imprisonment, and even death because they are Christians. The social and political costs of practicing Christianity are especially high in places like Somalia, North Korea, Eritrea, Afghanistan, and...
Lee Greenwood Christianity
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...
Reading George Marsden with Gen Z
If the cultural détente of the 1990s seems like a dream, Marsden’s outrageous idea retains its force
Complexity Training
After a year that defies comprehension, how do we achieve a proportional response? If I had to choose only one dead word from the past twelve months—a word killed off by abuse and overuse—my candidate would surely be unprecedented. A...