Since 2016 Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church of Dallas, has championed a president who is a pathological liar, adulterer, lover of Mammon, and business fraud. Now this court evangelical of court evangelicals is promoting a book on the […]
The “single most blistering Clery report I have ever read, ever.” Liberty University has failed to keep students safe.
Here is Susan Svrluga at The Washington Post: Liberty University has failed for years to keep its campus safe and repeatedly violated the federal law that specifies how it should do so, according to preliminary confidential findings from an Education […]
Donald Trump and white Fabio Jesus are in court this week
“Dom Lucre” (his real name is Dominick McGee”) is an internet personality who, according to this bio, is an Army veteran, Hip-Hop music label executive, financial adviser, 2020 election denier, Trump supporter, and “Christian missionary.” On Monday night he shared […]
NBC News tackles Seven Mountain Dominionism
Here is NBC News’s Grapevine Podcast. You might hear a familiar voice 🙂
The GOP clownshow rolls on
In 1910, the House of Representatives voted to remove Speaker of the House Joseph Cannon, an anti-progressive Republican (as opposed to the progressive Republican presidents Teddy Roosevelt and William Howard Taft) from Illinois. Here is Hillsdale College historian Joseph Postell: […]
Tabor College chapel talk
Yesterday I had a great visit to Tabor College in Hillsboro, Kansas. Thanks to David Faber for hosting me and to Ryan Loewen and Erik Noren for opening up their classes to this visitor. One of my assignments was to […]
Episode 118: “Evangelicals and the Environment”
Most Americans probably think of conservative evangelicals as climate change deniers who believe global warming is a hoax. If this is you, you would not be entirely wrong. But our guest today, Neill Pogue, author of The Nature of the Religious […]
Evangelical roundup for October 2, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Young evangelicals fighting climate change. Spanish evangelicals unite. The World Evangelical Alliance defends freedom of religion in France. Robert Tracy McKenzie and Mark David Hall debate whether America had a Christian founding. Karen Swallow […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Heather Cox Richardson: “The Fight for Our America“ Vladimir Putin’s view of history Shohei Othani’s 2023 season New stained-glass windows in Washington National Cathedral The inspiration for Uncle Tom 50,000 […]
Shawn Fain’s Christian radicalism
Earlier this week I wondered why people were not talking and writing more about UAW president Shawn Fain’s Christian faith. Church historian Heath Carter has published the piece I was hoping for. Here is a taste of his Jacobin article […]
Is it OK to like Barry Manilow’s music?
In fifteen years of blogging I think this is my first Barry Manilow post. I’ll join Tom Nichols of The Atlantic in admitting that I sometimes listen to Manilow’s music. (Though I have never seen him in concert.) Here is […]
Ibram X. Kendi’s “failure, intellectual and moral, is as much ours as it is his”
Back in June we brought some attention to Bates University environmental studies scholar Tyler Austin Harper‘s New York Times piece on race and college admissions. Now, in a piece at The Washington Post, he has weighed-in on the Ibram X. […]
California Senator Dianne Feinstein has passed away
Until an official obituary appears, learn about this trailbazing United States Senator here. She was mayor of San Francisco from 1978 to 1988 and was elected to five U.S. Senate terms. In 1984 she was on Walter Mondale’s vice-presidential short […]
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:
Donald Trump goes to Michigan and speaks at a non-union factory
Donald Trump skipped Wednesday night’s GOP debate. Instead he went to Clinton Township, Michigan and spoke at a non-union auto parts factory. The day before Trump’s visit to Michigan, sitting president Joe Biden joined United Autoworkers leader Shawn Fain at […]
Commonplace Book #286
Even at their worst, the churches kept alive a vision of man and fraternity, a knowledge of injustice suffered and retribution due. And for long periods, given the hopeless political environment in which the Negro found himself, “other-worldliness” was the […]
Springsteen is done for the year
The Boss has canceled all of his remaining 2023 shows. (He originally just canceled September shows). He continues to battle peptic ulcer disease. Here is Melina Newman at Billboard: Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band have pulled their remaining 2023 […]
Evangelical roundup for September 28, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? The National Association of Evangelicals has launched a “racial justice Assessment tool.” Syrian evangelicals on the ground in Turkey. The 50th anniversary of the Lausanne Covenant. New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary hosts a conference […]
Donald Duck and the GOP
At times I thought last night’s debate was taking place in an alternate GOP universe
Commonplace Book #285
The miners retain many of their admirable qualities today, but it is evident that their world, the world of early industrialism, is dying–and the union, seeking to survive by allying itself to management and mechanization, itself becomes an enemy. It […]