Liberty University’s culture war arm, the Standing for Freedom Center, interviewed some students about Ukraine funding and the southern border. Watch: Liberty students and alum: Do you hold similar views on U.S. funding for Ukraine?
What is happening at the American Bible Society?
My book The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society ends just before the society’s 200th anniversary in 2016. If you want to get a sense of what has happened to this storied benevolent society since then, check […]
Goodbye Nashville (for now)
I’ve spent a little over a month in Nashville in 2024. In mid-January I was in the Music City during a snowstorm that paralyzed the city. I managed to get a little research done on my current book project during […]
“Should the president now go scot-free, we will teach the next generation very different, more cynical rules”
Here is David Gergen during the Bill Clinton impeachment investigation in 1998: …At the end of the day, we should recognize that the heart of this case is not about Clinton, nor is it about Starr. It is about us, […]
What is popular 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:
Evangelical roundup for February 29, 2024
Happy Leap Day! Here is what is happening in Evangelical land? Marvin Olasky reviews Mike Cosper, Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found. Evangelicals continue to push for immigration reform. Evangelicals are essential players in […]
National parks that help us remember the country’s darker moments
Here is Ben Railton at The Saturday Evening Post: On February 19th we commemorated a sad anniversary: the 72nd anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066, the proclamation that created the federal policy of Japanese American incarceration. We now have a new collective […]
Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History
We at Current are thrilled that one of our contributing editors, Wheaton College’s Timothy Larsen, is President-Elect of the American Society of Church History. As part of his responsibilities, Tim is the conference co-chair for the 2025 meeting of the […]
John MacArthur rejects Christian nationalism
Michael Foust has the story at Christian Headlines: The pastor of Grace Community Church and the host of the popular radio ministry Grace to You made the comments during a Q&A session at his congregation last week.   Asked to give his opinion on […]
Saturday Night Live spoofs Trump’s GOP lackeys
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry:
Eric Metaxas: “We are beyond politics”
Eric Metaxas believes the country has moved “beyond politics.” It’s now an all-out spiritual war. Here is one his latest tweets: He believes Joe Biden is a murderer: In this interview, Metaxas and conservative journalist Megan Basham go after Russell […]
Calvin University president Wiebe Boer resigns after sending “unwelcome and inappropriate” messages
Here is WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids: The president of Calvin University has resigned after admitting to sending inappropriate messages to someone on campus, the school says. President Wiebe Boer’s “unwelcome and inappropriate” communication was with a “non-student member of the campus […]
Thomas Jefferson said our rights come from the “Creator.” Was he right?
Christian nationalism was in the news again this weekend. As we noted in today’s Roundup, a lot of evangelicals (and others) are upset about Politico journalist Heidi Przybyla’s claim that anyone who believes that their rights come from God is […]
Evangelical roundup for February 26, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? How Trump won over South Carolina evangelicals. Dan Silliman with a brief synopsis of Christianity Today‘s reporting on the South Carolina primary: Some Brazilian evangelicals see no contradiction between practicing Christianity and criticizing Israel. […]
South Dakota Senator John Thune is the latest evangelical to jump on the Trump train
Yet another evangelical leader has endorsed a candidate for president who instigated an insurrection on the U.S. Capitol, is under indictment on 91 felony charges, and sexually assaulted and defamed a woman in a New York department store dressing room. […]
The Koch network gives up on Nikki Haley
One of the major funders of Haley’s campaign is not spending any more money on it. Here is Natalie Allison at Politico: Americans For Prosperity Action, the powerful conservative group supporting Nikki Haley in the Republican presidential primary, will no […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Liberal socialism Peter Wehner on “The Chosen“ When people thought California was an island. Teaching the secrecy of the Constitutional Convention. The John Birch Society is now mainstream Former Harvard […]
Theocracy reigns at CPAC. Christian nationalist says “we didn’t get all the way there on January 6th”
In my recent review of Rob Reiner’s film “God and Country” at Christianity Today, I suggested that many on the political left tend to conflate “Christian nationalism” with basically any form of conservative evangelical political engagement. But that doesn’t mean […]
What is popular 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:
Evangelical roundup for February 22, 2024
What is happening in evangelical land? The New York Times obituary for WORLD magazine founder Joel Belz. Randall Balmer on his father’s evangelicalism. More on the recent conference on Carl F.H. Henry’s The Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism. Conflict at […]