Here is the press release: David Emmanuel Goatley was named the sixth president of Fuller Seminary in 2022. Prior to his appointment, he served as the associate dean for academic and vocational formation, Ruth W. and A. Morris Williams Jr. […]
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Trump after his 2020 election loss: “I’m just not going to leave”
The quote comes from New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman’s forthcoming book, Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America. Here is CNN: Former President Donald Trump repeatedly told aides in the days following his 2020 election […]
Who were Charles I and Charles II?
And why did the British monarch decide to call himself Charles III? Here is historian Emilie Brinkman at The Washington Post; The death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest ruling monarch, has heralded the ascension of a new British monarch […]
Episode 101: Exhibiting Evangelicalism
Have you visited the Museum of the Bible in Washington D.C.? How about the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte, North Carolina? In this episode, historian Devin Manzullo-Thomas, author of Exhibiting Evangelicalism: Commemoration and Religion’s Presence of the Past, helps us make sense […]
Evangelical roundup for September 12, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Daniel Williams on why progressive Christians should join the pro-life cause. Is evangelical male-female friendship possible? Jim Wallis defends Biden’s Philadelphia speech. Lisa Sharon Harper on the death of Queen Elizabeth: It looks like […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Adam Smith reconsidered Seventeenth-century Dutch Calvinist missionaries in Southeast Asia Icebreakers on the first day of class Who is Jay Caspian Kang? Comparing the opposition to slavery and the opposition […]
Remembering September 11, 2001
Joe Biden gave a great speech today. Watch:
Metaxas: “God has called me to fight to the death for what is true and right”
Back in April 2021, I wrote a piece at Current titled, “The Education of an Evangelical Insurrectionist.” It told the story of Tyler Ethridge, a graduate of Charis Bible College who entered the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 […]
In December 2020, Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano prayed that God would help him and other election deniers “seize power”
Here is Mastriano on December 30, 2020: Watch: Some comments: This is what we mean by “Christian nationalism.” Providential history is one of the defining marks of Christian nationalism. Notice how Mastriano prays as if he understands God’s purposes in […]
Billy Graham to Richard Nixon: Satan was working through the Jews, but Hitler handled it all wrong
The Graham-Nixon conversations were much worse than we originally thought. In late July 2018, the full conversation of a 1972 Billy Graham-Richard Nixon conversation was, according to researcher Mike Hertenstein, “quietly posted on the Nixon Library website.” It was labeled […]
George Will responds to the James Sweet controversy on presentism
Not familiar with this controversy? Get up to speed here. Here is a taste of Will’s Washington Post column: “In the sandbox also known as academic, it’s the golden age of the grovel“: Today, many academic historians, writing history “that […]
Catholic historian Christopher Shannon discusses Catholic and Evangelical historiography
If you have been reading Current this week you may have noticed that we featured an interview with historian Christopher Shannon and a review of his new book American Pilgrimage: A Historical Journey Through Catholic Life in a New World. […]
Why did conservative publisher Regnery pull Dinesh D’Souza’s “2,000 Mules” book?
Perhaps the title of this post should have been, “When you lose Regnery….” Here is Tom Dreisbach at NPR: For months, the conservative provocateur Dinesh D’Souza teased that the book version of his widely debunked film “2,000 Mules” would provide compelling new […]
“Nine in 10 living humans were born after Elizabeth II became queen”
70 years is a long time. Here is Philip Bump at The Washington Post: Queen Elizabeth II’s death Thursday afternoon brings an end to one of the longest leadership tenures in world history. For parts of eight decades, Elizabeth served as […]
Professor: “May [Queen Elizabeth’s] pain be excruciating”
Recently someone criticized me for suggesting that there are those on the political left whose rhetoric is just as damaging as those on the right. In response to this critic I offer the case of Uju Anya, a professor of […]
Andrew Sullivan reacts to the death of Queen Elizabeth
It’s really interesting to hear from a conservative like Sullivan who clearly loves his home country. Sullivan’s tweet about Elizabeth’s character is particularly poignant. I am sure he will write something longer on the queen’s death, but for now here […]
Oberlin College pays more than $36 million to a local bakery to settle a racial profiling case
Here is Anemona Hartocollis of The New York Times: Oberlin College, known as a bastion of progressive politics, said on Thursday that it would pay $36.59 million to a local bakery that said it had been defamed and falsely accused […]
Eugene Robinson remembers Queen Elizabeth II
The Washington Post columnist calls the queen “the last of her kind.” Here is a taste: I was The Post’s London bureau chief in the early 1990s, when Charles’s marriage to Princess Diana was falling apart in the worst possible […]