Here is Deepa Bharath at the Associated Press: Fuller Theological Seminary, an evangelical school in Pasadena, California, is deliberating whether to become more open to LGBTQ+ students who previously faced possible expulsion if found to be in a same-sex union. […]
Trump speaks to libertarians. It does not go well
Here is Reuters: Presidential candidate Donald Trump was booed and heckled by many in a raucous audience at the Libertarian National Convention on Saturday night, a marked change from the adulation he receives at rallies from his fervently loyal supporters. Libertarians, who […]
Birmingham-Southern College’s baseball team will outlast Birmingham-Southern College
On May 31, 2024 the Birmingham-Southern College baseball team is playing in the NCAA Division III College World Series. May 31, 2024 is also the day that Birmingham-Southern College will close. Here is NBC News: The Birmingham-Southern College Panthers advanced […]
“Yes, our evangelical friends tend to have a short attention span, little historical perspective, and a penchant for quick fixes”
As I have already discussed here at Current, I’ve spent much of the year in archives. I recently came across a 2004 exchange of e-mails between two Catholic intellectuals. They were written after they spent a weekend with a group […]
You can despise Trump, but you don’t need to send him vials of blood
Here is the Associated Press: The Republican National Committee’s Washington headquarters was briefly evacuated on Wednesday as police investigated two vials of blood that had been addressed to former President Donald Trump following the presumptive presidential nominee’s takeover of the national party apparatus. […]
Republicans love the 1950s
When Donald Trump says we need to ‘make America great again,” most Republicans think about the 1950s. According to Andrew Van Dam at The Washington Post, Republicans believe that the 1950s was the happiest, safest, most communitarian, and moral society […]
The “Appeal to Heaven” flag was a revolutionary-era symbol. The “Appeal to Heaven” flag is a Christian Nationalist symbol
Not familiar with the Samuel Alito “Appeal to Heaven” flag controversy? Get up to speed here. I am seeing a lot of tweets like this: What Reed and Pence fail to recognize is that symbols like the Pine Tree Flag […]
Does this look like 25K to you?
Here is some context for this aerial photo of Trump’s rally in the Bronx this week. The linked piece suggests that we shouldn’t assume everyone in this picture is a Trump supporter. Here is Trump court journalist David Brody on […]
What Pat Robertson and Ralph Reed said about presidential character in 1998
I ran across this Associated Press article about a Christian Coalition event in 1998. I was struck by a few lines: Reed continues to support Trump. So much for “character” and “moral leadership.”
Lindsay Chervinsky named Executive Director of the George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon
I knew her before she was famous! We overlapped briefly as fellows at the George Washington Presidential Library. Congrats, Lindsay! Well-deserved. Here is the press release from Mount Vernon: MOUNT VERNON, Va., May 22, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — The Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association is proud […]
Court evangelicals, Christian America, and exposing some really bad views on the founding: A conversation with Josh Crain of Verve City Church
Last week I chatted with Josh Crain, pastor of Verve City Church in Chino, California. We covered a lot of ground. As election season approaches, Josh is trying to get his congregation to think more deeply about politics through a […]
Southern Baptists debate an amendment that “affirms, appoints, or employs only men as any kind of pastor or elder…”
There is always drama in the weeks before the Southern Baptist Convention annual meeting. This time it is over the so-called “Law Amendment.” Here is Heath Lambert, pastor of First Baptist Church–Jacksonville, with some background: The Law Amendment is one […]
A Benedictine College philosophy professor on Harrison Butker’s controversial commencement speech
Benedictine philosophy professor Jim Madden has taught at Benedictine College for more than two decades. Here is a taste of his “On the Pleasures of Outrage“: I don’t want to make this conversation about my family, but a bit of […]
Why did Nikki Haley cave?
As we covered earlier this week, Nikki Haley is voting for Donald Trump. Get up to speed here. Over at The Washington Post, Ramesh Ponnuru explains why Haley fell in line: Here is a taste” …If Trump were headed for […]
Liberalism as religion?
Over at his Substack, Damon Linker interviews political theorist Alexandre Lefebvre, author of Liberalism as a Way of Life. Here is a taste: DL: But what do you say to those who persist in religious belief when they respond that the […]
What is trending this week at CURRENT?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
Albert Mohler, Doug Wilson, and Steve Bannon will speak at the National Conservatism conference in July
The National Conservative movement is hosting its fourth annual conference in July. Watch: Speakers include: Albert Mohler (President Southern Baptist Theological Seminary) Steve Bannon (Trump adviser and alt-right leader) Josh Hawley (U.S. Senator from Missouri) Stephen Miller (Trump adviser and […]
Trump’s former lawyer Jenna Ellis is awaiting settlement in her second Colorado law license case
Here is Quentin Young at Colorado Newsline: Jenna Ellis, previously an attorney for former President Donald Trump, is negotiating a settlement agreement in a case over whether she engaged in professional misconduct, according to the parties in the case. The […]
More sloppy history from Tim Barton of Wallbuilders
In the video posted below, which appears to be a lecture at an Arkansas evangelical church called “The House,” Tim Barton of Wallbuilders claims that every founding father with an extant library had a copy of John Wise‘s sermons. And […]
What is going on with the Alitos?
First, the Alito family flew an upside-down American flag at their Alexandria, Virginia home. Supreme Court justice Samuel Alito said his wife Martha-Ann hung the flag in the context of an argument with a neighbor who had a vulgar anti-Trump […]