Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen thinks we can solve some of our partisan differences and “renovate our democracy” by expanding the House of Representatives. She makes her case here. A taste: Why this one renovation above all others? Four reasons: […]
The Kings College is still on the ropes
This could be the last semester for the Manhattan-based Christian college. Here is Emily Belz at Christianity Today: The financial crisis in Christian higher education has hit The King’s College, a Christian liberal arts school in New York City, with […]
Jimmy Carter: Evangelical politician
Here is Lori Amber Roessner at The Conversation: Carter continued to share his understanding of the gospel with journalists and their audiences in a plain-spoken manner, even though it was not always advantageous to his political fortunes. For instance, after […]
Why did Fox News lie to its viewers about the 2020 election?
David French offers a theory at his New York Times column: Fox isn’t just the news hub of right-wing America, it’s a cultural cornerstone, and its business model is so successful that it’s more accurate to think of the rest […]
How dangerous is Ron DeSantis?
Not as dangerous as many progressive think he is, according to Damon Linker. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: To judge by several early polls, Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida has a decent shot of […]
Pitch-clocks, pizza boxes, and infielders playing where they are supposed to be playing. Welcome to the 2023 baseball season!
I’ll let veteran sportswriter Rick Reilly take it from here: I used to love baseball, but I stopped watching when games got slower than sloth races. Last year, the average game was 3 hours and 3 minutes. No, thank you. I […]
Florida’s HB 999 is not about free speech or academic freedom, it’s about politics
Last week the Florida House of Representatives introduced House Bill 999: “An act relating to public postsecondary educational institutions.” Read it here. Here are some of the details Here are some of my takeaways:
Evangelical roundup for February 27, 2023
What is going on Evangelical Land?: The Kings College needs $2.6 million to survive. So far it has raised $178,000. Brazilian evangelicals and political patience. Randall Balmer on Jimmy Carter. Mike Cosper on how evangelicals reacted to the Asbury Revival. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Coffee and happiness Putin and God The GOP as the W.W.E. A Black professor in an “anti-racist hell.” And more here. Charles Mathewes reviews Francis Fukuyama’s Liberalism and Its Discontents […]
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:
Our Asbury Revival roundups come to an end. Thanks for reading.
While I am sympathetic to the spiritual experience that took place over the last two weeks at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky, I tried to cover the revival here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home as a curator or […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 23, 2023 (10:50PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. This is the last night of services at Asbury University. Tonight was the Collegiate Day of Prayer. Asbury was scheduled to host this […]
A conversation on Wendell Berry’s The Need to be Whole
Literary scholar Jeff Bilbro and philosopher Josh Hochschild discuss Wendell Berry’s controversial book The Need to be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. The event is sponsored by the National Association of Scholars. Watch:
Ron DeSantis wrote a book about the founding fathers
The full title is Dreams From Our Founding Fathers: First Principles in the Age of Obama. Historian David Waldstreicher read it. Here is a taste of his piece at The Atlantic: History works for Ron Desantis as an argument. It would […]
Evangelical roundup for February 23, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? For those interested in the Asbury Revival, we are covering it extensively here. Russell Moore talks to Yahoo News reporter Jon Ward about the latter’s new book. The New York Times on the Southern Baptist […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 22, 2023 (10:30PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A photo essay from Asbury University sociologist Lisa Weaver Swartz: Jennifer posts a pic from Texas A&M: Cayla’s son: Saturday at Asbury’s Revival, […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 22, 2023 (12:20PM)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Today: On Tuesday and Wednesday, February 21-22, the Outpouring services in Hughes Auditorium are reserved for participants 16-25 years old. However, a public live […]
In defense of physical books
Here is Ben Sixsmith, editor of The Critic: A couple of years ago, I had almost my entire collection of books shipped from England to Poland. They had been lurking in my dad’s attic but he understandably decided that he […]
Two divergent explanations of Southern inequality
Over at Dissent, political scientist Jared Loggins reviews Adolph Reed’s The South: Jim Crow and Its Afterlives and Imani Perry’s South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon Line to Understand the Soul of a Nation. (See my review of […]
Ed Stetzer leaves Wheaton College for Talbot School of Theology
Some news from the world of American evangelicalism: Biola University is announcing that Dr. Ed Stetzer will assume the role of Dean of Talbot School of Theology beginning July 2, 2023. “For decades, Dr. Ed Stetzer’s visionary presence — most […]