Earlier this week I received a query from a journalist who covers the United States for a conservative Protestant daily newspaper in the Netherlands affiliated with the Calvinist Reformed Political Party. (Follow the links to the paper and its party. […]
Evangelical roundup for January 18, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Micah Watson reviews Russell Moore’s Losing Our Religion. The soundtrack of white evangelicalism. The war in Gaza is making some Latino evangelicals question their support for Israel. Trump is not our savior: Evangelicals in […]
On the “deification of Donald Trump”
Check out Thomas Edsall’s column today at The New York Times. I was happy to contribute to it. A taste: In recent weeks, for example, the former president posted a video called āGod Made Trumpā on Truth Social that was […]
Does Ron DeSantis really have a chance?
No. As I type I am watching DeSantis on a CNN Town Hall in New Hampshire. On Monday he said that he had a “ticket our of Iowa.” Maybe he meant a plane ticket back to Tallahassee, because there is […]
“God Made a Dictator”
Some of you are familiar with the “God Made Donald Trump” video circulating in the MAGA world. If you haven’t seen it, watch it here. The Lincoln Project, a group of anti-Trump Republicans, has responded with “God Made a Dictator”: […]
91 felony indictments later and Trump’s evangelical support is growing
As I noted this morning, evangelicals carried Trump to his Iowa win last night. We now know that Trump did much better with Iowa evangelicals this time around. Here is The New York Times: Evangelical Christian voters moved to Trump […]
Douthat: “It’s absurd that there was no unified opposition” to Trump in Iowa
Earlier today I watched Dana Bash of CNN interview GOP presidential candidate Nikki Haley at a New Hampshire diner. I’ll let David Goldiner of the New York Daily News describe what I saw: Nikki Haley feigned ignorance about former President […]
Trump wins Iowa with support of evangelicals
As expected, it was a big night for Donald Trump. He won just over half of the 110,000 votes cast in Iowa. Due to the weather, the turnout was very low. Ron DeSantis finished second (21.2%) and Nikki Haley was […]
Doug Wilson: The Civil War was fought over “federalism” and “decentralized power”
Over the Christmas holiday, GOP presidential candidate and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley got in hot water for this: Over at The Guardian, Steve Phillips asks why we are still debating the cause of the Civil War. A taste: […]
A very busy Martin Luther King Jr. Day
I can’t remember such a busy–at least in terms of news–January 15th. I’m on a research trip in a southern city that is treating a few inches of snow as if it was some kind of natural disaster, so it […]
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Evangelical roundup for January 15, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Trump’s legal problems are galvanizing evangelicals in Iowa. Thomas Kidd asks, “How ‘Evangelical’ are Iowa’s evangelicals? Jim Harbaugh: “Purpose-driven coach”: Iowa evangelical pastors back candidates. Shane Claiborne on Texas Governor Gregg Abbott and immigration: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Stained glass American history at the National Cathedral. Josh Hawley: America is a Christian nation. Fareed Zakaria: Is Israel’s war in Gaza “proportionate?“ John McWhorter on the resignation of Claudine […]
Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem is backing Ron DeSantis because he’ll pardon Trump and was a college athlete (among other things)
Wayne Grudem is at it again. Late last year the evangelical theologian, defender of a complementarian view of men and women, and 2016 and 2020 Donald Trump supporter called on Trump to drop out of the 2024 presidential race to […]
Does history really help us decide if Trump should stay on the ballot in Colorado?
Over at his blog, historian William Hogeland reminds us that history can only take us so far in debates like the one currently raging over whether Donald Trump can stay on the ballot in Colorado. The original intent of Section […]
Current contributing editor Adam Jortner battles Britney Spears for top spot on Audible
Adam Jortner is the Goodwin Philpot Eminent Professor of Religion in the History Department at Auburn University and contributing editor here at Current. He is also an Audible rock star. His “The Hidden History of the Boston Tea Party” is […]
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Evangelical roundup for January 11, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? The “new” Trump evangelical voters. Tim Alberta on Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel AME: Is Donald Trump a “man of faith? The National Association of Evangelicals is sharing the dream: Lecrae’s “Deconstruction“ Milligan University […]
On the “perpetual panic” of liberal individualism
Shadi Hamid is a columnist at The Washington Post and a research professor of Islamic studies at the Fuller Seminary. Here is a taste of his moving piece on the limits of liberal individualism: I can imagine being both more […]
Will Nikki Haley pull off a Gary Hart-style upset in New Hampshire?
The New Hampshire primary–the first of the primary season–is scheduled for January 23, 2004. Sometimes strange things happen in the New Hampshire primary. Remember when: Henry Cabot Lodge beat Barry Goldwater in 1964? Edmund Muskie beat George McGovern in 1972? […]