The court evangelicals continue to line-up behind Donald Trump. So far Mike Huckabee, Paula White, Eric Metaxas, Lance Wallnau, Marc Burns, and James Dobson have either formal endorsed Trump or suggested they will support him in the 2024 presidential election. […]
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Eighteen hours in Madison, Wisconsin
Yesterday I spent the day with the impressive staff of Upper House, the Christian study center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I was in Madison to participate in an interfaith faculty dialogue on listening and democratic discourse […]
Evangelical roundup for April 20, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Charles Stanley, RIP. The Southern Baptist Convention calls for red flag gun laws in Tennessee. C.S. Lewis evangelicals. Three generations of pastors. Christian Right presidential candidates are coming to Iowa. Amy Grant steps up: […]
Howard Thurman and the civil rights movement
Black Perspectives is running an online forum on civil rights activist and Christian mystic Howard Thurman. Here are the pieces they have published: Tejai Beulah Howard, Howard Thurman’s Biographer: An Author Interview with Peter Eisenstadt Dorsey Blake, Beyond Faiths and […]
Molly Prentiss’s writing shed
I haven’t done a writing shed post in a while. Yesterday Lit Hub featured novelist Molly Prentiss‘s shed. A taste: When we’d decided to purchase a one-room house, we hadn’t considered that we’d be stuck inside of it, without access […]
I aspire to become an influencer
Actually, I don’t. But in a recent piece at The Atlantic Katherine Hu wonders if “influencing” is the “new American dream.” Here is a taste: Fifty-four percent of young Americans would become an influencer if given the chance. This statistic, from […]
Canada’s last minor league baseball team
The people of Vancouver love their Canadians, the Toronto Blue Jay’s Class A baseball club and Major League Baseball’s last minor league team. Here is a taste of Kurt Streeter’s The New York Times piece, “Is This Heaven? No It’s […]
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Why don’t more theology students take history courses?
At the school where I teach there are ample opportunities for students to shape their intellectual experience through a double “major” or a “minor” or two. Just the other day, for example, I was talking to one of my academic […]
How to teach the history wars
I think it’s fair to say we are in the midst of another round of history wars. Today’s so-called “activist historians” invoke a usable past to preach political and social agendas, while more traditional historians (of all political persuasions–from Trotskyite […]
Commonplace Book #258
Infante must have had a great propensity to believe in miracles; otherwise Pietro’s reappearance, being in such sharp contrast to the world which he was familiar, would have struck him as utterly fantastic. In fact, however, he was moved, but […]
“Trump is the man”: Did court evangelical Eric Metaxas just endorse Trump’s 2024 candidacy for president?
Evangelical author and radio host Eric Metaxas remains in the tank for Donald Trump. Over the last seven or eight years he has been one of the most vocal court evangelicals. Here is a snippet from a recent conversation on […]
What happened at the NRA leadership forum this weekend?
We have a serious gun violence problem in the United States. While the National Rifle Association was meeting in Indianapolis, there were multiple-death shootings in Dadeville, Alabama; Louisville, Kentucky; Harrisonburg, Virginia; Honolulu, Hawaii; Spring, Texas; Orlando, Florida; Ahoskie, North Carolina; […]
Evangelical roundup for April 17, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Does the Church of England need evangelicals? Sojourners at 50 Asian-American evangelicalism in a new Netflix series. Evangelicals support a postal employee who will not work on Sundays. A Black evangelical moderate: 70% of […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The first and only impeached Supreme Court justice. Monetizing historical footage Michael Fletcher reviews Theresa Runstedtler, Black Ball: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Spencer Haywood, and the Generation That Saved the Soul of […]
Liberty University gives Ron DeSantis an honorary doctorate in the humanities
Ron DeSantis was at Liberty University on Friday morning. Watch: When I first heard that DeSantis was speaking at Liberty University, I thought that he might announce his presidential candidacy there. That didn’t happen, but here’s what did happen. 27:31: […]
How to support our work at Current
There is no better time to support our work than right now! Over the last several months we have been working hard, led by our digital specialist Ben Martin, to bring a more user-friendly experience to Current. If you poke around the […]
Commonplace Book #257
You don’t have to agree with the historical interpretations of Leon Trotsky’s old Fourth International to respect and benefit from the institutional stance it has taken–almost alone–against the false statements printed, and sensationalized, by the New York Times in the […]
MAGA prophet Lance Wallnau says that anti-Trumpers in both political parties will start dying “sudden deaths” next month
Some of you will note that I included this story in yesterday’s Evangelical Roundup, but I thought it was worth a separate post. Here is Wallnau, the Charismatic, MAGA, Christian Nationalist, Seven Mountain “prophet”: Watch the entire video here: As […]