The landscape of American politics and our electoral mechanisms make a traditional realignment a near impossibility.
The Arena
The art of living: Beryl Markham
The Art of Living is an occasional series about people who seemed to know something about living.
#Eclipse2024: party on a Monday afternoon
Judging by the number of eclipse related posts on social media over the past few days and, especially, today, it appears that the Williams family wasn’t the only one to take a few hours off from usual activities today just […]
“The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God”
Britain’s Justin Brierley won a 2024 Zenger Prize for his podcast series “The Surprising Rebirth of Belief in God.”Â
Blessing of Unicorns: April Fools jokes; political Bibles; marriage, vocation, and education; euthanasia
Behold the unicorns! This week we move from the funny to the thought-provoking and to the depressing.
Six months after October 7th, where are the remaining 100+ hostages?
This Sunday marks six months since the Hamas attack on Israel. What will happen to the remaining 100+ hostages still in captivity?
On advice for potential graduate students in the humanities
When you make graduate school decisions, remember that you can’t know the future – but you can make choices that will serve you well now.
Current’s first ever Spring Books Week
It is no secret that we all at Current love books. It’s a rather extreme sort of love, which leads grown men and women to reflect on a regular basis just where else in this house, overflowing as it is […]
“Here’s $1,000. Not April Fools”
Announcing the winners of the 2024 Zenger Prize.
Atonement
Christ’s atoning sacrifice frees us from our efforts to atone for ourselves. That’s the enduring power of the cross. And on Good Friday, we remind ourselves that our guilt really has been taken away and our sin atoned for.
How far we have fallen
We’re in a pit, and it only keeps getting deeper.
Singing songs about Jerusalem
Holy Week centers on historical events that took place in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. This reality makes demands of us.
The miracle of suffering
The Passion of Christ is a mystery of undeserved rejection, friends who hurt you, and knowing that your suffering will break your parents’ hearts. And yes, the Passion is pain that saves.
Surprising movement in Japan
In a stringently monolithic Japan, multi-cultural churches are pointing Japanese to Christ and welcoming them into his global body.
Power and privilege and the Passion
At Christmas, we are often asked to consider “what child is this?” At Easter, among other things, we might ask, “what power is this?”
Blessing of Unicorns: AI does peer review; walls, walls, walls; family; and Ovid
AI does peer review; walls, walls, walls; family; and Ovid.
Sellouts
Schumer’s call for new elections in Israel is nothing short of cowardly politics.
The kids who get left behind: Emma Green’s article on Classical Education raises important questions about American education as a whole
Emma Green’s New Yorker piece raises important questions with implications that go beyond Classical Education.
Toward a heavenly education
Art exists precisely because there is more to reality than meets the eye.
It’s earlier than you think
Sometimes it is a little exhausting keeping track of all the things that are supposed to signal our imminent decline. So calm yourself, because it’s earlier than you think.