Avelda King is Martin Luther King Jr.’s niece, outspoken leader of the Christian Right, and Trump court evangelical. Watch her speech at Ralph Reed’s “Road to Majority 2023” conference today: A few comments: King believes she is an officer in […]
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The Christian Right “Road to Majority” conference opens with a sermon: “Blacks have become the cheap prostitutes of the Democratic Party”
Ralph Reed’s Christian Right gathering this weekend began with a sermon by Black preacher John M. Amanchukwu. Amanchukwu is a former North Carolina State football player, a graduate of Liberty University, and appears on shows such as The Charlie Kirk […]
Ralph Reed opens the “Road Majority Conference”: Christians should be “at the top, and not the bottom, of our political system”
The God and country crowd is gathered at the Washington D.C. Hilton this weekend for the Faith and Freedom Coalition’s “Road to Majority Conference.” Christian Right political activist Ralph Reed founded the Faith and Freedom Coalition in 2009 to oppose […]
Umberto Eco on books and libraries
The Italian historian, cultural critic, and novelist Umberto Eco is one of the great thinkers of our time. Next week a film about his life and library opens in New York. It is titled “Umberto Eco: A Library of the […]
David Brooks makes a Kuyperian argument against the LA Dodgers
Here is the The New York Times columnist: If I walked onto the field at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles and stomped on a Dodger’s uniform on home plate, I hope that the Dodgers and their fans would be upset. […]
Current writers join a Politico forum on post-Roe America
Last year Politico asked twenty thinkers to respond to the end of Roe v. Wade. Today Politico asked the same twenty people to reflect on the one-year anniversary of the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade. Current editors and […]
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Happy 15th birthday to The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog
Fifteen years ago I was sitting in my room at the David Library of the American Revolution in Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania and I wrote my first blog post at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. I had just published The […]
The Author’s Corner with Richard N. Langlois
Richard N. Langlois is Professor of Economics at the University of Connecticut. This interview is based on his new book, The Corporation and the Twentieth Century: The History of American Business Enterprise (Princeton University Press, 2023). JF: What led you […]
The Author’s Corner with Sarah Naramore
Sarah Naramore is Assistant Professor of History at Northwest Missouri State University. This interview is based on her new book, Benjamin Rush, Civic Health, and Human Illness in the Early American Republic (University of Rochester Press, 2023). JF: What led […]
Evangelical roundup for June 22, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Peter Wehner continues to go after evangelicals for supporting Trump. European evangelicals meet to learn more about Roman Catholicism. The Church of God gathers for its annual convention. The Council for Christian Colleges & […]
The Protestant roots of “wokeness”
Harper’s Magazine is running a piece by Ian Buruma, the former editor of The New York Review of Books (read the article to learn why he is no longer the editor), titled, “Doing the Work: The Protestant ethic and the […]
The Author’s Corner with Matthew J. Clavin
Matthew J. Clavin is Professor of American and Atlantic History at the University of Houston. This interview is based on his new book, Symbols of Freedom: Slavery and Resistance Before the Civil War (NYU Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
Just how unprecedented was Trump’s federal indictment?
Donald Trump is the first president or former president to face a federal indictment, but as Joshua Zeitz points out at Politico, a sitting vice-president and the president of the Confederacy faced treason charges. Here is a taste of Zeitz’s […]
Seattle Pacific University will make huge cuts to its academic budget
Another Christian college is in financial trouble. Here is Nina Shapiro at The Seattle Times: Seattle Pacific University is cutting its budget for academic programs by 40% — mostly through steep faculty layoffs, effective in a year. The announcement by […]
The Atlantic tackles Seven Mountain Dominionism
A nice piece of reporting here by Stephanie McCrummen. Here is a taste of “The Woman Who Bought a Mountain For God”: On the day she heard God tell her to buy a mountain, Tami Barthen already sensed that her life […]
One piece of culture that defines America
The New York Times asked its columnists to pick one piece of culture that “captures the true spirit of our country.” Here is what they came up with: Ezra Klein: “Her” Maureen Dowd: “Invasion of the Body Snatchers” Ross Douthat: […]
Why do we long for a golden age?
Is the United States in the midst of a moral breakdown? Should we support candidates who want to take us back to a golden age? Why do we want to “Make America Great Again” (Trump) or believe that “America is […]
The Author’s Corner with Bonnie Hagerman
Bonnie Hagerman is Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality and Director of the Department’s Undergraduate Programs at the University of Virginia. This interview is based on her new book, Skimpy Coverage: Sports Illustrated and the Shaping of the Female […]
Evangelical roundup for June 19, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? C.S. Lewis and space aliens A review of two new documentaries about evangelicalism. Karen Swallow Prior on Tim Alberta’s new book: Anglican evangelicals on the Uganda anti-LGBTQ policy. Not all evangelicals believe women should […]