What is going on in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are pushing Congress to extend more aid to Israel. Trump knows evangelicals have no choice but to back him despite his states’ rights abortion policy. Evangelicals and the border: Ruth Graham talking […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Joseph Priestley and time. The American history textbooks wars of the 1920s Rereading Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities The Diggers Against paywalls When nostalgia was a disease. Daniel K. Williams reviews […]
Recently ousted Calvin University president Wiebe Boer and his wife Joanna are suing Calvin. The complaint reads like a soap opera.
Some of you who read this blog know that we have been keeping track of this story. See our coverage here and here. Here is the latest from MLIVE: GRAND RAPIDS, MI – The Calvin University president who stepped down […]
An early American historian on Michael Douglas’s portrayal of Ben Franklin
Last month we called your attention to Franklin, an Apple TV+ miniseries staring Michael Douglas as Poor Richard. Today, we call your attention to historian Joseph Adelman’s review of Franklin at Slate.Com. Here is a taste: Key to the show’s […]
Why is Cornel West broke?
Edward Carson, a history teacher and Dean of Multicultural Education at The Governor’s Academy in Byfield, Mass., recently wrote this on his Facebook page: Cornel West and I are no longer on speaking terms. I am still a fan and […]
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:
A Search for Spiritual Certainty
Sometimes it’s hard for a young boy to understand the mystery of faith
What is happening at Valparaiso University?
Valparaiso University, the Lutheran college in northwest Indiana where I taught from 2000-2002 as a Lilly Fellow in Arts and Humanities, is considering cutting majors in German, Spanish, Global Studies, Music, Astronomy, International Relations, Theology, Theology and Ministry, and Philosophy. […]
Evangelical roundup for April 11, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Conservative evangelicals want Trump to do more on abortion. I have never heard of Josh Garrels, but he is apparently a “prominent Christian musician.” The Red Letter Christians think he may be a coward. […]
Cornel West announces his running mate. It’s Melina Abdullah
In case you forgot, the Black intellectual Cornel West is running for president as an independent. Today he chose his running mate. She is Melina Abdullah, a professor of Pan-African Studies at the University of California-Los Angeles. Here is her […]
What has happened to National Public Radio?
By this point some of you have seen Uri Berliner’s piece at The Free Press: “I’ve Been at NPR for 25 Years. Here’s How We Lost America’s Trust.” The subtitle: “Uri Berliner, a veteran at the public radio institution, says […]
Should we fear “collectivism?”
Over at Jacobin, Luke Savage explains and counters the Right’s misunderstanding of “collectivism.” Here is a taste: Contrary to what the Right asserts, the Left is not animated by a rigid determinism that seeks to stamp out the individual or […]
Happy 3rd birthday to CURRENT! Will you consider helping us make it to our 4th?
More than three years ago, Eric Miller, Jay Green, and I talked about starting a journal of opinion and commentary. We imagined publishing a daily essay and transferring my nearly fifteen-year-old blog, The Way of Improvement Leads Home, to the […]
The NAIA: Only “student-athletes whose biological sex is female” may participate in women’s sports
Here is CNN: The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics voted to adopt a new policy Monday that effectively bans transgender women from participating in most of its women’s intercollegiate sports programs. The NAIA, an athletic association consisting of 241 mostly small member colleges and universities as of 2023, governs intercollegiate athletics for more than […]
Trump takes a pro-choice position on abortion. Tells everyone to “follow their heart.” Some evangelical leaders respond, but most show no outrage.
This morning Donald Trump announced that abortion was a decision best left up to the people in the states. Watch: Two quick thoughts: The Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America came out quickly this morning with this: “We are deeply disappointed […]
Evangelical roundup for April 8, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? What can American evangelicals learn from the global church? Compassion for rural ministers. Micah Watson reviews Russell Moore’s Losing Our Religion. Ukraine evangelicals need U.S. support Shane on the earthquake and book deals: Is […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Can Biden go right and left at the same time? When America was “begging richer allies for help“ Raymond Williams and hope An administrator tells and English professor to do […]
What is popular this week at <em>Current</em>?
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:
Evangelical roundup for April 4, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Hispanic evangelicals are a growing force. Evangelicals: Politically diverse, biblically similar. I think Mike Huckabee agrees. Evangelicals and in vitro fertilization. Thomas Schirrmacher resigns as General Secretary of the World Evangelical Alliance Esau McCaulley […]
Franklin Graham praises Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for his “honesty”
In case you missed it, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who is running for president as an independent, told CNN’s Erin Barnett that Joe Biden is a bigger threat to democracy than Donald Trump. Watch: Franklin Graham liked what he heard: […]