Hank Kunneman is a New Apostolic Reformation preacher and Seven Mountain Dominionist. He is part of the Dutch Sheets and Lance Wallnau crowd of “prophets” that we covered here. In this video Kunneman expounds on the history of church and […]
Michael Tomasky on the “quixotic” and “corrosive” Cornel West and RFK Jr. campaigns for president
The editor of The New Republic thinks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and No Labels “are effectively surrogates for Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.” Here is a taste of his piece: You might think, in a two-party democracy where the […]
Yesterday’s Quinnipiac poll
The GOP primary race: Of course national polls in a GOP primary are not as important as polls in individual states (see below), but they are still interesting. Some are saying that DeSantis is running to the right of Trump […]
Evangelical roundup for July 20, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals and the “church of Tucker Carlson.” Churchless evangelicals Evangelicals come to the aid of fire victims on the Spanish island of La Palma. Evangelical Christianity is on fire in Brazil. Happy to help […]
Have you seen Joe Biden’s brilliant Marjorie Taylor Greene campaign ad?
Here was Georgia congressperson Marjorie Taylor Greene at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA conference last weekend: The Biden campaign responded with this: Brilliant!
Before the “nones” there were the “nothingarians”
Here is Thomas Kidd at The Panorama: One of the most common news topics on American religion in recent years has been the rise of the “nones,” or the religiously unaffiliated. News stories from the Pew Research Center and similar outlets constantly […]
Wesleyan University ends legacy admissions
Good for Wesleyan. I guess Lin-Manuel Miranda‘s kids will not get a special advantage at the Connecticut liberal arts college. (But something tells me that they will probably won’t need such an advantage!). Here is Vimal Patel at The New […]
Joyce Carol Oates on writing, memory, Twitter, and identity politics
At age 85, writer Joyce Carol Oates has “so many ideas.” Check out David Marchese’s interview with Oates at The New York Times. Here is a taste: How does support for the idea that diverse voices should be given primacy […]
Is former Maryland governor Larry Hogan running for president?
Back in March he said he wasn’t running. About two hours ago he posted this: If he does run, will it be as a Republican or the candidate of the “No Labels” movement? You may recall the recent rumors about […]
Trump indictment #3 is coming soon. How are people (including a few evangelicals) responding?
This time the indictment is for January 6th. (Still waiting on Georgia). CNN has some good coverage. The indictment is probably coming, perhaps in days. It looks like Trump is going to spend most of 2024 in court. Here is […]
James Carville: “The only thing that Dr. West’s candidacy can do is help elect Donald Trump”
No one expects Cornel West to become the next president of the United States, but Anderson Cooper’s recent interview with West reveals why it is hard for a candidate of moral purity and prophetic sensibility to govern. Politics almost always […]
Should American historians seek to emulate Howard Zinn’s approach to popular history?
As some of you know, I am working on a three-volume project, geared to a general reading audience, on evangelicals and politics in the twentieth-first century. Sometimes I don’t know if I am doing journalism or writing history, but I […]
The Kings College is still open
Faculty are leaving and others are getting cut, but it looks like the The Kings College is still alive. Here is Meagan Saliashvili at Religion News Service: The last remaining evangelical Christian college in New York City, The King’s College, […]
Jack Hibbs: “If we were writing the Bible today, George Washington would be included”
In this video, podcast the pastor of the Calvary Church-Chino Hill (CA) reveals just how the Christian Right manipulates the past to promote its political agenda. I can’t tell whether these pastors are just ignorant or they are deliberately lying. […]
She helped Trump try to overthrow the 2020 election. Now she is supporting Ron DeSantis because Trump is too liberal
Some of you may know the name Jenna Ellis. If you read this blog regularly, you know that she was the lawyer who assisted Rudy Giuliani in trying to prove that there was widespread election fraud that allowed Joe Biden […]
“There’s a wall up and we can’t come in” and other things that happened at this weekend’s Charlie Kirk Trumpfest
It was called the “Turning Point USA Action Conference” and it was, in essence, a celebration of Donald Trump, Trumpism, and all things MAGA. I didn’t get a chance to watch much of it beyond Trump’s speech, but several people […]
Evangelical roundup for July 17, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Is Trump really the political savior of Iowa evangelicals? Megachurches are getting bigger. The Church of England divests from fossil fuels companies. Ed Stetzer on Pentecostals DeSantis and Iowa evangelicals Spanish evangelicals on Christian […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Good conversation A Midwestern childhood Should we be fighting climate change in the same way we fought the Nazis? Woody Guthrie: radical Are the rich really getting richer at the […]
Responding to the critics of my piece “Kid Gloves” (1619 Project)
It looks like my feature we published on Friday at Current received some attention on Twitter. I’m glad people are reading it and, for the most part, taking it seriously. For the record, here is everything I have written at […]
What I learned watching the BLAZE coverage of the Family Leadership Summit
On Friday July 14, Iowa evangelicals gathered to hear GOP presidential candidates speak at The Family Leadership Summitt. The event was sponsored by Bob VanderPlaats‘s Family Leader organization and hosted by Tucker Carlson. The former Fox News host interviewed Tim […]