Believe it or not, there is another GOP presidential primary debate on Wednesday night. This one is at the University of Alabama. Are people still watching these things? (I mean people other than political junkies like me?) The field is […]
Liz Cheney, one of the most conservative politicians in the United States, is pulling for Democrats in 2024
Here is Kelly Garrity at Politico: Former Republican Rep. Liz Cheney would rather cede power to Democrats than see members of her own party win in 2024, she said, calling a Republican majority a “threat,” and warning of an existential […]
Calvin University turns to football to help enrollment
The strategy appears to be working. Check out Liam Knox’s Inside Higher Education piece on small liberal arts colleges that are trying to “bet on new athletics programs” to attract students: Here is the section on Calvin University: Calvin University […]
History News Network is back with a new look and a new partner
Here is the formal announcement: History News Network (HNN) was founded in 2001 to help put current events into historical perspective. Its original mandate, as articulated by founder Rick Shenkman, was to create a space for historians to offer deeper […]
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Current contributing editor Vince Bacote asks, “how many sermons are people hearing” about “national idolatry?”
In his chapter on Wheaton College in his book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, journalist Tim Alberta spoke with Wheaton theologian and Current contributing editor Vincent Bacote about evangelicalism, politics, and […]
Is socialism undemocratic?
French philosopher Étienne Balibar does not think so. Here is a taste of his interview with Jacobin: The idea of liberty has itself been contested and challenged since its very origins in modern times because the very notion of “liberty” […]
Current contributing editor Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt receives a 2024 Christianity Today book award
Congratulations to Current contributing editor Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt! She received a Christianity Today “Award of Merit” in the “Culture and Arts” category for her book Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art. Here are the […]
“If Trump Wins”
The January/February issue of The Atlantic includes a forum titled “If Trump Wins.” It includes pieces by David Frum, Anne Applebaum, McKay Coppins, Caitlin Dickerson, Barton Gellman, Sophie Gilbert, Zoe Schlanger, and George Packer. Here is a taste of editor […]
Chad Connelly: Those who criticize David Barton do not possess true Christian wisdom and “hate freedom.”
Over at Politico, Tim Alberta, author of the new book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals In An Age of Extremism has published an excerpt from his book exposing “bogus historians” Chad Connelly and David Barton. Here […]
Evangelical roundup for December 4, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Tim Alberta on David Barton Red Letter Christians host a forum for evangelical pastors to ask “imperfect” questions about Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank. Evangelicals support Biden on Israel, but disapprove of just […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week 3 books on the therapeutic mindset Sandra Day O’Connor, RIP. And here. Five books to read about Sandra Day O’Connor. What is the value of the humanities? The world’s only […]
Episode 123: “Drew Gilpin Faust on Growing-Up at Midcentury”
She was a privileged baby boomer who grew up on a horse farm in segregated Virginia. By her twenty-first birthday she had worked for peace in Communist Europe, traveled the country in the cause of racial justice, marched for voting rights […]
It is dangerous “when the side that loses the debate cannot accept the result”
Yale historian David Blight from a 15-year-old lecture on the Dred Scott case and John Brown:
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Robert Jeffress has a Trump “shrine” in his office at First Baptist Church-Dallas.
I am finishing-up Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism in preparation for a conversation I will be taping with him tomorrow on CSPAN’s Book TV. I am sure I […]
Robert Kagan: “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable”
Here is a taste of Kagan‘s piece today at The Washington Post: Let’s stop the wishful thinking and face the stark reality: There is a clear path to dictatorship in the United States, and it is getting shorter every day. […]
Current’s 2023 Pushcart Nominations
Please join us in congratulating our nominees for this year’s Pushcart Prize, which is awarded by the Pushcart Press, publisher of the annual Best of the Small Presses, “the most honored literary series in America.” These are: “The Hidden Seasons […]
Evangelical roundup for November 30, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Cal Thomas on Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Wheaton College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social […]
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