Atheism to radicalism
Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Introduction and Chapter 1)
Over the next twenty-two weeks, you can read a chapter from Marvin Olasky’s memoir every Thursday.
Farewell for now
The 2025 circus will be fascinating to watch, and this is my note to Current readers that I’ll now be at a different vantage point.
Covering up a genitalia remark
A partisan press at work.
Cheering for baseball teams and presidential candidates
What to do when neither sports nor politics offer us our first choice to cheer for?
From 93 to 1:27
Some of us see the 2024 election as another Flight 93 election. I see it as a Genesis 1:27.
Looking for optimism
Brief reflections on this weekend’s Front Porch Republic conference.
Literally peevish
I am literally typing this. I do not literally have steam blowing out of my ears.
Abortion decision-making: slow down vs. speed up
Why does the number of abortions in America appear to be rising?
Echo chamber evidence
Echo chambers make for poor journalism.
Deadly reporting
Double Jeopardy for $1,000: Members of this occupation set up the deaths of thousands of Gaza residents.
Tolstoy, Melville, Wright: Morons
Evangelicals should thank Wright and be at peace with him.
30th Anniversary: Wins and losses concerning 3D ultrasound
What difference did the 3D ultrasound make for the prolife movement?
40th Anniversary: A rare press victory and a longer loss
That time the pro-abortion Austin American Statesman did a hit job on a local crisis pregnancy center.
50th Anniversary: A unique newspaper selfie
A brief Golden Anniversary memory of a brave journalist, David Shaw.
Life as a reality show
Angels in the audience watch us on stage and learn how God’s grace operates.
What should a good reporter do all day?
Some denominations within Christianity have patron saints. In overwhelmingly secular journalism, reporters normally don’t think about patron saints, but I’d like to suggest from the Bible a patron psalm. Psalm 73 begins with a careful observer’s confession of depression: “As […]
Joyfully embracing abortion, or sorrowfully claiming necessity?
Almost a half-century ago, Magda Denes came out with In Necessity and Sorrow: Life and Death in an Abortion Hospital. It’s still the only defense of abortion that I recommend to people.
Objective drama, subjective actors
In which Marvin Olasky poses a question to Current readers.
God and the political butterfly effect
How might we think about God and political history?