Night four of the Democratic National Convention is here. It’s Kamala Harris’s night. Here is what some American evangelicals have been saying this week as the Dems gather in Chicago: The former president of the Southern Baptist Convention believes that […]
Tim Walz’s “three yards and a cloud of dust” campaign.
Tim Walz has been a professional politician for almost twenty years. But it is his fifteen years as a football coach that might make him the next vice president of the United States. Here’s the Knute Rockne part of Walz’s […]
Song of the Day
HT: Storm Bailey
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How does a university exist without librarians?
I am worried about posting this article from Inside Higher Ed because I don’t want to give academic administrators any ideas. Western Illinois University is laying off all nine of its library faculty. What is happening to higher education? Here […]
Twenty years after his breakout speech, Obama is back tonight
Barack Obama is speaking at tonight’s Democratic National Convention. Twenty years ago, as a candidate for U.S. Senate, Obama delivered his breakout speech at the DNC in Boston. About three weeks before the 2004 convention, Obama was driving between Springfield […]
The Democrats may have just lost my vote!
Many Democrats are upset about the cancellation of James Taylor on the first night of the Democratic National Convention. The DNC is claiming that the legendary singer was canceled because there wasn’t enough time for him to perform due to […]
Patrick Spero returns to the American Philosophical Society as CEO
The last time I talked to Patrick Spero he had just left his position as the Director of the Library and Museum at the American Philosophical Society (APS) and had taken a similar post at Mount Vernon. Now he’s back […]
Raphael Warnock’s “American covenant” and where his vision for a Micah 6:8 nation goes off the rails
Raphael Warnock delivered a real stemwinder last night at the Democratic National Convention. Speeches like this remind me of why I felt compelled to argue in 2018 that the early civil rights movement provides the best historical model for evangelicals, […]
Former federal justice J. Michael Luttig endorses Kamala Harris
I remember when conservative legal scholar J. Michael Luttig was on the short list of judges considered for a Supreme Court nomination. Then Donald Trump came along and started playing fast and loose with American institutions and the United States […]
The Fannie Lou Hammer convention?
Maxine Waters just spoke on night one of the DNC convention. While many have been comparing this Chicago convention to the 1968 Democratic National Convention, Waters invoked Fannie Lou Hamer and the 1964 DNC convention in Atlantic City. It has […]
One night event: “Faith and Democracy and the Legacy of the First Prayer in Congress”
Join Carpenters’ Hall at the American Philosophical Society‘s Benjamin Franklin Hall on the evening of September 5th for a rousing discussion between nine faith leaders from historic Philadelphia congregations. They will discuss and debate prayer and religion in American government […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Robert McCoy reviews Brenda Wineapple’s Keeping the Faith: God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation. How the internet is remaking us. Prayers at Trump rallies Sara Georgini reviews […]
Kevin Williamson on “Shepherds for Sale”: “Reviewing a book like this is like trying to argue with an avalanche—an avalanche of stupidity and error.”
Ouch! There are reviews, and then there are REVIEWS. Kevin Williamson’s review of Megan Basham’s Shepherds for Sale: How Evangelical Leaders Traded the Truth for a Leftist Agenda is a REVIEW. I haven’t really been following all the publicity surrounding […]
Former Cornerstone University professors start “Contrary U”
After Cornerstone University fired humanities professor Matt Bonzo and Michael Stevens (and others), the chair of the Board of Trustees implied that they were “contrarians.” If you are not familiar with what happened at Cornerstone, check out our coverage here. […]
“White, patriarchal, nationalist Christians who seek power to transform American culture through conservative-leaning politics and free market economics” for Kamala Harris?
Earlier this week, a group called “Evangelicals for Harris” met on a ZOOM call to explain why evangelicals should vote for Kamala Harris. Who are these “Evangelicals for Harris?” In a recent essay at the Journal of the American Academy […]
The church does not affiliate with political parties. It holds government accountable, regardless of who is in office.
I finally managed to get a copy of N.T. Wright and Michael Bird’s book Jesus and the Powers. I’m looking forward to digging into it. Christianity Today recently published a short interview with Wright. Here is a taste: In your […]
I think Trump adviser Stephen Miller forgot about the slave trade
Movie clip of the day
Final scenes of Godfather 2:
Gilder-Lehrman Institute/Gettysburg College M.A. program in American history expands to include community college teachers
I get this question a lot from high school history teachers: “Do you recommend the Gettysburg College-Gilder-Lehrman Institute MA in American History? Short answer: Yes. This is the only online graduate program I recommend. Here’s the latest: At $750 per […]