How are evangelicals responding to Thursday night’s January 6th Select Committee hearing? I think the real story here is how many public evangelicals said nothing so far, I am sure there are all kinds of reasons why these folks did […]
Early thoughts on the first January 6th Committee hearing
I am building these comments around the live-tweeting I did last night. I am sure we will all have more to say in the coming weeks. Bill Barr began by calling the idea that Biden stole the election “bullshit”: Later, […]
My congressman, Scott Perry, asked for a presidential pardon after January 6th
Here is Myah Ward at Politico: Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania, as well as multiple other Republican lawmakers, contacted the White House in the weeks after Jan. 6, 2021, to seek presidential pardons for their roles in attempting to overturn […]
Are evangelical scholars prospering from “the scandal of the evangelical mind”?
Some of you on Twitter may know Darryl Hart as the historian who regularly trolls this blog under the handle “Old Life.” In a piece published yesterday at The Wall Street Journal, Hart wonders if evangelical historians are trying to […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Jonathan Den Hartog, “What Happened When Jon Meacham Went to Samford?“ John Fea, “Matthew McConaughey Goes Home“ Christopher Shannon, “Losing Their Religion“ Daniel K. Williams, “Pro-Life and Pro-Guns?“ John Fea, […]
Bob Woodward and the copy machine
Last Sunday night we watched the first two episodes of CNN’s documentary on John Dean and Watergate. I am looking forward to the last two episodes this weekend. It’s good. So needless to say, a recent Washington Post piece on […]
Pennsylvania Senator Bob Casey on guns
Over at The Washington Post, the Pennsylvania senator writes about how he changed his mind about guns after Sandy Hook. Here is a taste: I’m a U.S. senator who has done something rare in today’s politics: I’ve changed my position […]
Evangelical roundup for June 9, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Some Southern Baptists are trying to discredit the investigators hired to conduct the denomination’s sexual abuse study. Do conservative evangelicals have better sex lives? Shane Claiborne celebrates Pentecost: “Christians leading communities plagued by cartels […]
Matthew McConaughey Goes Home
The Uvalde native bears witness to the children who died there
Toronto megachurch pastor Bruxy Cavey is arrested and charged with sexual assault
We have covered this story here and here and here. On Monday Cavey was arrested. Here is Yonat Shimron at Religion News Service: Police in the Canadian city of Hamilton have charged the disgraced former pastor of one of the […]
The Catholic Fox News
I used to occasionally watch EWTN. As a former Catholic (I am confirmed in the church and a friend who is a priest tells me that all I need to do is go to confession and I’m back in), I […]
Fox News will not air the January 6 committee hearings
Here is Philip Bump at The Washington Post: The Republican Party made a decision early last year that it would rather use the attack at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as a cudgel against Democrats than engage in […]
Is fusion voting the answer to our political partisanship?
Here is Blake Hounshell at The New York Times: When Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for the Supreme Court majority in a landmark 1997 case, rejected a minor party’s demand that it be allowed to nominate candidates who were already […]
Former Texas GOP congressman Will Hurd: “I want more than thoughts and prayers”
Hurd represented Uvalde, Texas from 2014-2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times: We are not helpless, and if the people we elect to address our country’s tough challenges think nothing can or should be […]
Gerson: The GOP spin on guns is “wrong–morally and legally”
Here is Michael Gerson’s recent Washington Post column: Is the slaughter of innocents the unavoidable price of freedom? A significant group of Americans believe it is. In a recent CBS-YouGov poll, 44 percent of Republicans agreed that mass shootings are […]
Springsteen plays with Coldplay at the Meadowlands
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More on Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano’s affiliation with a Conservative Mennonite Church
We reported on this on May 19, 2022. Apparently Doug Mastriano and his family attends Pond Bank Mennonite Church in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Now Tim Huber, a writer at Anabaptist World, reports on it: CMC executive director Brian Hershberger told Anabaptist World by […]
The International African American Museum will open in Charleston
It was one of the busiest slave trading posts in early America. Here is CNN: The International African American Museum will open the weekend of January 21, 2023, the museum announced Wednesday. The 150,000-square-foot facility will be at the former site […]
There is not a “hard distinction” between the gospel and the pursuit of social justice
Mark Glanville of Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.) explains: The recent Guidepost Solutions report on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention revealed that August Boto, a key leader on the SBC Executive Committee, labeled the work of advocates on behalf of survivors […]
There were twelve people killed in mass shootings this weekend
Here is Dennis Romero of NBC News: The first weekend of June marked a greater number of mass shooting deaths in the United States than the previous three-day weekend, which ended with Memorial Day. The tally for weekend violence through […]