Readers of this blog know what a court evangelical is. But for the uninitiated, I encourage you to read this piece or this book. After last night’s CNN town hall, it appears that Donald Trump just might be the GOP […]
Zenger House announces its 2023 prize winners.
Zenger House is: a Christian foundation that exists to help journalistic start-ups and honor writers who do street-level reporting and write excellent stories that show biblical truth, even if that’s not a writer’s goal. The foundation awards annual prizes to encourage outstanding writers […]
Franklin Graham on the verdict in the Trump sexual assault case
I suffered through most of last night’s CNN New Hampshire townhall meeting with Donald Trump. Here is what we “learned”: You can learn more here. During the interview Collins, who often fact-checked Trump in real time, asked the former president […]
Evangelical roundup for May 11, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? In case you haven’t heard, a prominent historian and scholar of American evangelicalism converted to Christianity last year through the ministry of J.D. Greaar, the pastor of a large Southern Baptist Church in North […]
Is Colonial Williamsburg going “woke”?
Some on the right believe that Colonial Williamsburg’s commitment to telling the full story of the 18th-century city means that the world’s largest living history museum is going “woke.” I would argue that Colonial Williamsburg is trying to tell a […]
Nadya Williams on leaving academia
Readers of Current will know Nadya Williams as our book review editor and lead blogger at The Arena. But she also spent the last fifteen years (following her Ph.D at Princeton) teaching ancient history at the University of West Georgia. […]
Bruce Springsteen and Flannery O’Connor
We are gearing-up for the new season of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast. If I can find the funding, I would like to try to do weekly episodes through the rest of 2023. One of the guests I […]
2023 Pulitzer Prizes announced
Here are few of the prizes that caught my eye: Feature Writing (Finalist): Elizabeth Bruenig for her work on the death penalty in Alabama. History (Winner): Jefferson Cowie, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power History (Finalist): […]
Manhattan jury: Donald Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll
Here is David French: It’s important to note that this was a civil case, not a criminal trial. The burden of proof in civil cases is lower. The jury was charged with determining whether Carroll proved her claims with a […]
Rep. George Santos just got arrested
The representative from New York’s 3rd congressional district just got charged with wire fraud, money-laundering, theft of public funds, and lying to the House of Representatives. All felonies. Here is CNN: Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. […]
Historian Molly Worthen talks with The Gospel Coalition about her conversion to evangelical Christianity
I love every minute of this interview. Here is Collin Hanson of The Gospel Coalition interviewing University of North Carolina historian Molly Worthen: Some highlights: What a beautiful and joyful conversation.
Evangelical roundup for May 8, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Russell Moore on Tucker Carlson. More on Iowa evangelicals and the 2024 GOP primary season. Evangelical parachurch organizations at Harvard. Rick Warren wants to follow Southern Baptist pastors on Twitter: Hispanic evangelicals continue to […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The influence of Roger Scruton on conservatism. Leah Finnegan reviews Ben Smith, Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. How to rig an election: 1876 […]
8th grade U.S. history scores continue to decline
Here is Sarah Mervosh at The New York Times: National test scores released on Wednesday showed a marked drop in students’ knowledge of U.S. history and a modest decline in civics, a sign of the pandemic’s alarming reach, damaging student […]
Commonplace Book #265
When we fight for justice and stand up for the oppressed, we are knowing God, making him known, demonstrating by the spirit his own passion for justice. When we delight in beauty and create more of it, God the glad […]
Pope Francis on Ukraine
The Pope wants peace in the Ukraine. He opposes Russian war crimes, but is not acting diplomatically on behalf of the West in the way John Paul II did during the Cold War. Over at The Atlantic, John Allen, the […]
What is going on at Taylor University?
Here is Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: A veteran English professor at a leading evangelical university has lost her job — in part because a school official deemed her writing classes too liberal on the issue of race. Julie […]
Do journalists have more freedom than professors?
Ross Douthat begins his recent New York Times piece by engaging with the recent pushback against “wokeness” on university campuses. If what is happening on the campuses of Stanford, Harvard, Penn State, Cornell, and Vanderbilt is any indication, and Columbia’s […]
Christopher Lasch’s plain style
Christopher Lasch (1932-1994) was one of the 20th-century’s great cultural critics. But did you know he is the author of a writing guide? Here is a taste of Max Ridge’s piece on Lasch’s 2002 book (published posthumously) Plain Style: A […]
What is popular this week at Current?
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