What is happening in Evangelical Land: Are evangelicals turning on Trump? Evangelical giving is up. An evangelical “power ranger” has died. Three Southern California evangelical schools are uniting to bring theological education to Hispanic students. Shane call us out: Tim […]
Twitter is Where Ideas Go to Die
Itās time for truly liberal-minded Christians to do better. Including me.
On reading other people’s diaries
This weekend my daughter and her boyfriend came to visit for Thanksgiving. It was his first visit to our stately abode in south central Pennsylvania and during the course of his stay she decided to show him my basement office. […]
Jay Green responds to criticism of his essay on Christian public discourse
Jay Green’s Current piece,” The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse” has drawn a lot of attention–good and bad–on social media this week. Here is Jay’s gracious response to those who engaged with the essay. Stay tuned. In the spirit […]
It’s “Giving Tuesday”! An invitation to supporting our work at Current
Is one allowed to ask for support on both Small Business Saturday and Giving Tuesday? I hope so. š Since we launched in April 2021,Ā CurrentĀ has continued to attract readers and high quality writers. Our editorial team is growing and we […]
On the slaveholder Jonathan Edwards and the Christians who read him
This past weekend a couple of folks called my attention to tweets from Joash Thomas. According to his Twitter bio, he is the National Director of Mobilization & Advocacy for the International Justice Mission (IJM) of Canada. I have great […]
A few words about Jay Green’s piece on Christian political discourse
I woke up this morning to a Twitterstorm of attacks on Jay Green’s essay, “The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse.” Some people want us to remove this piece from our site. Let me assure that that is not going […]
Jay Green and Daniel K. Williams discuss the need for liberal democracy
If you have been following the Twitter debate over Jay Green’s Current piece, “The New Shape of Christian Public Discourse,” you might also be interested in Daniel William’s interview with Green over The Anxious Bench blog. Here Jay brings further […]
Who is Donald Trump’s white supremacist dinner guest?
His name is Nick Fuentes. Here is Maggie Haberman and Alan Feuer at the The New York Times: Former President Donald J. Trump on Tuesday night had dinner with Nick Fuentes, an outspoken antisemite and racist who is one of […]
Jay Green on Christian political discourse and the liberal tradition
I hope you get a chance to read historian Jay Green’s piece today at Current. Green writes: “I donāt think there has been a time in my life when the need to secure and reenergize the liberal tradition has been […]
Evangelical roundup for November 28, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Will the Christian Right approach to abortion rights hurt the pro-life movement in the future? The National Association of Evangelicals on climate change. Has David French left “orthodox Protestantism”? Does the Museum of the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Books in 19th-century New York City The end of the world as we know it Andrew Delbanco on reparations for Black Americans David Brooks’s on his taste in music David […]
An invitation to think about Current on “Small Business Saturday”
Did you know Current is an LLC? That makes us a small business. I invite you to give this little magazine/website some love tomorrow on “small business Saturday.” Since we launched in April 2021,Ā CurrentĀ has continued to attract readers and high […]
David French hits back at the “absurdity” of Al Mohler’s attack on him even as evangelical right-wingers try to write him out of Christianity
Earlier this week we called your attention to Al Mohler’s attack on David French. Mohler was very upset with French’s support of the Respect for Marriage Act. Get up to speed here. David French has now hit back against Al […]
What is popular this week at Current?
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More from the “Evangelical Fearmongering 101” syllabus
When Thomas Jefferson was running for president in 1800, Federalist evangelicals claimed that if the Virginian won the election he and his henchman would try to close their churches and confiscate Bibles from their homes. When Irish Catholics started arriving […]
The Plymouth settlers were pilgrims, not patriots
The Pilgrims would not recognize themselves in the rhetoric of so-called Christian patriots. Here is a taste of Wheaton College historian Tracy McKenzie‘s piece at Religion News Service: Certainly, the English Christians we call the Pilgrims were searching for an […]
Robert Jeffress helped stoke the GOP “civil war.” Now he wants no part of it.
Here is Anugrah Kumar’s piece on one of Donald Trump’s most prominent court evangelicals: Texas megachurch pastor Robert Jeffress, who was one of the first Evangelical leaders to publicly support former President Donald Trump and attend his rallies during the […]
What if the Christian Right is wrong?
Certainty is a hallmark of the Christian Right and fundamentalist thinking more broadly. There is little place for the mystery of God or words like “maybe” or “perhaps.” I am reminded of N.T. Wright’s words about such dogged commitments to […]
Are evangelicals really abandoning Trump?
The press seems to love this story. Here is The Huffington Post. Here is The Washington Post. Here is Rolling Stone. But are evangelicals really abandoning Trump? It’s too early to tell. James Robison’s comments at National Association of Christian […]