In honor of Eric Miller’s piece today on Wendell Berry.
Bob Jones University president Steve Pettit survives a fundamentalist revolt
Several old school fundamentalists on the board of Bob Jones University recently tried to remove university president Steve Petitt. They failed. I got the news from the BJU-watching blog “What In The World.” It was also just announced to the […]
Michael Gerson, RIP
This one hits hard. I am going to devote tomorrow’s column at Current to Gerson. In the meantime, here is the Washington Post obituary: Michael Gerson, a speechwriter for President George W. Bush who helped craft messages of grief and […]
Evangelical roundup for November 17, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals and creation care in the Middle East. A Christian college chancellor tells young evangelicals not to be “sucked into” anti-Jewish hate. Matthew Avery Sutton reviews the Hulu Jerry Falwell Jr. documentary. The National […]
Why Kari Lake lost the Arizona gubernatorial race
Watch Vaughn Hillyard on Morning Joe: This, of course, is also a stinging indictment of Trump’s 2024 candidacy. Even though Lake lost, I still think it is disturbing that she got over 1.2 million votes.
What are the court evangelicals saying about Trump’s announcement last night?
Unfamiliar with the term court evangelical? Read this. It is worth noting that Trump said nothing about evangelicals and very little about the moral issues they deem important during his speech last night. I did not see many court evangelicals […]
“Florida Man Makes Announcement”
What Trump said last night
I managed to stomach Donald Trump’s 2024 presidential announcement last night. Here are my live tweets: Trump came out to a full room at Mar-A-Lago. A lot of nicely dressed people in the audience as well as the kind of […]
Are you listening to the Secondary Sources podcast?
Over the years the Conference on Faith and History (CFH) has worked hard to cultivate relationships with secondary school history teachers. I have been honored over the years to be part of these initiatives and am thrilled to see this […]
The conservative Calvinists who believe women should not have the right to vote
Over at The Roys Report, Steve Rabey has a piece about the disciples of Moscow, Idaho pastor Doug Wilson who believe that the United States made a mistake when it gave women the right to vote. Here is a taste: […]
If GOP candidates lose, Eric Metaxas and Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell will find fraud
Here is Metaxas talking to Steve Deace of Glenn Beck’s website, The Blaze: In a strange historical rant, Deace says that Christianity survived for “1700 years” because it was “subversive” and refused to “bow to Caesar.” Perhaps this is true […]
Is it “Mary’s dress sways” or “Mary’s dress waves”?
A lot of Springsteen news here, including the Boss responding to rumors that he will be part of the Taylor Swift tour. Watch:
An early autopsy of the Mastriano campaign
In case you missed it, Doug Mastriano finally conceded the 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign to Josh Shapiro. Over at Real Clear Pennsylvania, political analyst Albert Eisenberg offers an post-election assessment of the campaign: Here is a taste of Eisenberg’s piece, […]
Ex-presidents who ran again
After tonight, Donald Trump will be the fifth former president on this list. As Joshua Zeitz reminds us at Politico, only four former presidents ran again after they were voted out of office. They are Martin Van Buren, Grover Cleveland, […]
Can Trump win again?
Tonight Donald Trump will announce his candidacy for the presidency in 2024. Can he win? Conservative writer Kevin Williamson thinks it’s possible. Here is a taste of his piece today at The New York Times: It will not be easy […]
What is going on at Eastern University?
Eastern University, the school that has brought you, at one time or another, Ronald Sider (seminary faculty), Tony Campolo (faculty), Shane Claiborne (graduate), Brian Stevenson (graduate), Roberta Hestenes (president), Wilson Goode (faculty), Peter Enns (faculty), Allen Guelzo (faculty), and Doug […]
It looks like the Trump “disinfo brigade fell flat” this time around
Of course they should have fell flat in the wake of the 2020 election as well. Here is Jack Shafer at Politico: The red wave wasn’t the only conspicuous no-show on Election Day. The so-called rising tide of political disinformation […]
A former Bob Jones student reacts to the university board’s attempt to oust its president
If you aren’t familiar with this story yet, get up to speed here. John Ellis, a former Bob Jones University student who blogs at “Practically Known Theology,” has more. Here is a taste of his post, “The (Possible) Slow, Strange, […]
Evangelical roundup for November 14, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals and Ron DeSantis Evangelicalism in Brazil. And evangelicals for Lula. Brazil and Texas Gen Z evangelicals vote. The “other” evangelicals. Evangelicals are a foreign policy force. An encouraging message from the National Association […]
Doug Mastriano concedes the 2022 Pennsylvania gubernatorial race to Josh Shapiro
This is from about 15 minutes ago: