Here is his son Michael: Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: He was 72. Known for his brainy and winsome approach to evangelism, Keller founded Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan in 1989, and grew the congregation into a […]
“I remember Dad whispering, just before the last verse began, ‘Here’s the kicker, listen.'”
When I saw Bruce Springsteen at Penn State University earlier this year he opened the concert with “No Surrender“; Well we busted out of classHad to get away from those foolsWe learned more from a three-minute recordBaby, than we ever […]
Why did the 1985 St. Louis Cardinals lose the World Series?
Don Denkinger, the umpire who blew a call at first base in game six of the 1985 World Series, died on May 12, 2023. Watch: Here is Cardinals fan Will Leitch at The Washington Post: The reason the Cardinals lost […]
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Can Anything Good Come from a Southern Baptist Megachurch?
On Molly Worthen’s evangelical conversion
Timothy Keller enters hospice care
Today I picked-up two Timothy Keller books at a garage sale: The Reason for God and Walking with God Through Pain and Suffering. When I came home I learned that Keller has entered hospice care. Here is his son Michael […]
The “thought criminals” gather
Here is Emma Green at The New Yorker: Every month, more than two hundred people from the media, academia, and other intellectual circles are invited to a private hangout in New York City, which is known as the Gathering of […]
Evangelical roundup for May 18, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? A growing number of evangelicals do not want to vaccinate their kids. Mike Pence wants to appeal to “Reagan evangelicals.” Rick Warren is the honorary chancellor at Spurgeon’s College. Iowa evangelical Bob Vander Plaats […]
Paul Matzko completes his critical review of Stephen Wolfe’s book on Christian nationalism
We wrote about Matzko’s review of Wolfe yesterday. Get up to speed here. But there’s more! Matzko turned to Twitter to finish the review: Nice work, Paul!
What is going on in the Texas State Historical Association?
If you examine its website, the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) looks like any other state historical society. It is led by historians with Ph.Ds from reputable institutions. President Nancy Baker Jones is an accomplished public historian with a Ph.D […]
The D.E.I. debate
Florida governor Ron DeSantis just signed a bill banning diversity, equity, and inclusion programs at public universities. Here are two pieces I read today about the state of DEI on campuses and in the corporate world. Here is a taste […]
Where are all these Christian nationalists?
Christian nationalists certainly exist. But, as veteran religion reporter Ken Woodward writes today at The Washington Post, they are sometimes hard to find in everyday life. Here is a taste of Woodward’s piece: A year ago, after Rep. Marjorie Taylor […]
Stephen Wolfe’s book on Christian nationalism “is worth a read only in the same sense that rubbernecking at a car crash counts as sightseeing”
Recently the Christian nationalist historian Stephen Wolfe tweeted several passages from my book Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction. Here is the tweet: Here is the entire tweet: I don’t have the time or inclination to […]
Capitalist waste
Here is The George Washington University historian Trevor Jackson at The Baffler: EVERYONE RECALLS THE SHORTAGESÂ of toilet paper and pasta, but the early period of the pandemic was also a time of gluts. With restaurants and school cafeterias shuttered, farmers […]
“The kind of education God’s people need today is too important to be left to academics and other non-ecclesial thinkers”
Over at The Gospel Coalition, Doug Sweeney, the Dean of Beeson Divinity School in Birmingham, Alabama, let’s it rip: Our churches need pastors who will lead theologically. “For though by this time [our laypeople] ought to be teachers, [they] need […]
Michael Flynn’s anti-vaxxer dating site
Former Trump National Security Director Michael Flynn is one of the stars of the Christian nationalist “ReAwaken America” tour. He is also the a “founding member” and president of the advisory board for “4thPURE” a dating and community site for […]
Evangelical roundup for May 15, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? What is happening in evangelical higher education? On the decline of Southern Baptist church membership. The latest on The Kings College. Russell Moore on evangelical congregations and Trump. Michael Wear liked it: Great line: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Fareed Zakaria: “There’s no mystery about why the U.S. has so many gun deaths.” Families and the monitoring of screen time. How to find the best image for your project. […]
Did Martin Luther King Jr. really criticize Malcolm X?
Here is Gillian Brockell at The Washington Post: Jonathan Eig was deep in the Duke University archives researching his new biography of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. when he made an alarming discovery: King’s harshest and most famous criticism of Malcolm X, in which […]
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: