Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. The revival does not appear to have slowed down during the Super Bowl: Shane Claiborne talks to some of the […]
Way of Improvement
Asbury University revival roundup: February 12, 2022 at 2:38pm update
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. It seems the religious left has learned about the revival and just don’t know what to do with it: A […]
Asbury University revival roundup: Day 4 update
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A theology professor at Oklahoma Baptist University weighs-in: A student at Asbury Theological Seminary: Here we go: The leader of The […]
Every revival has its Old Lights and skeptics
If you’ve been following my ongoing curation of the Asbury University revival going on right now, you will see that there are a lot of skeptics. Anyone who knows something about the history of revivalism in the United States is […]
Breaking the “pseudo-revival” of Christian nationalism
This tweet comes from Pentecostal theologian Cheryl Bridges Johns and it speaks volumes. The Christian nationalist revivals that we see. for example. at Robert Jeffress’s First Baptist Church every Fourth of July are full of hubris and the celebration of […]
Keep Sean Feucht away from the Asbury University revival
The MAGA worship leader and failed congressional candidate has commented on what is going on in Wilmore, Kentucky: I would encourage everyone to understand the above tweet in the context of the Feucht tweets that surround it on the platform. […]
Commonplace Book #241
For many in the early labor movement, the goal of harmony demanded a rededication to the fundamental promise of the American Revolution: a classless society of citizens, acting in concert with God’s grace and intent on creating the new Jerusalem. […]
“No political figure better illustrates the tragic collapse of the modern Republican Party than Nikki Haley.”
Stuart Stevens is a veteran of both the George W. Bush and Mitt Romney presidential campaigns. Here is his take on 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley, published today at The New York Times: I remember the first time I saw […]
Evangelical roundup for February 12, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Revival continues to rage at Asbury University. We are covering that separately. Get up to speed with our regular updates here. So here is your non-Wilmore, Kentucky roundup: White evangelicals are most likely to […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Writers lives are “spent mainly in defeat“ Carole King on Burt Bacharach The Black Hebrew Israelite movement W.E.B. Du Bois on Black History Month Whopper, Whopper, Whopper Whopper History vs. […]
Is the Jesus of “He Gets Us” present in conservative evangelicalism?
Many are criticizing the “He Gets Us” Super Bowl ads that will appear during tonight’s Super Bowl because they are funded by the deep pockets of Hobby Lobby and use Jesus as a “brand.” But Liz Featherstone, writing at the […]
The MAGA evangelical revivalists are silent about the Asbury University revival. Why?
Charlie Kirk, the MAGA evangelical who runs Turning Point USA, wants a national awakening: Kirk believes that the only way to stop what he calls “The Great Reset” is a new Great Awakening. He believes that such a reawakening is […]
Commonplace Book #240
In 1875 Debs and his circle believed in the community of Terre Haute–“the sacred little spot” as he called it–and like so many other ambitious young men he saw his future inevitably tied to the progress of the whole community. […]
Episode 109: “The Voice and Faith of Sojourner Truth”
In this episode we talk with historian and biographer Nancy Koester about her new book on nineteenth-century abolitionist and women’s rights advocate Sojourner Truth. Our discussion focuses on Truth’s lifelong pursuit of a just society, a deeper knowledge of God, and […]
Special evangelical roundup: Asbury University revival edition
NOTE: I’ve decided to move the updates to this original post to separate posts. You can read them all here. What is happening in Evangelical land? Revival has hit Asbury University again. Get up to speed here. What are people […]
Revival comes, again, to Asbury University
Something is happening at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky and it has some striking similarities to 1970: Here is Alexandra Presta at The Asbury Collegian: I have been in Hughes Auditorium for almost twelve hours now without an intent to […]
How are evangelicals responding to the John MacArthur spiritual abuse accusations?
In case you missed the news, Christianity Today is reporting on a pattern of spiritual abuse on John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church in Los Angeles. Here is Kate Shellnut: Last year, Hohn Cho concluded Grace Community Church had made a […]
There were three major investigations of Donald Trump’s presidency. What if we took them as a whole?
There are three published investigations of Donald Trump and his presidency: The Mueller Report, the House Intelligence Committee Report on Trump and Ukraine, and the January 6th Report. Future historians will bring these reports into conversation with one another. Carlo […]
Joe Biden’s populism
There were parts of Joe Biden’s State of the Union address on Tuesday night that could have passed for a Donald Trump speech. Some conservatives, like Washington Post columnist Henry Olsen, seem to be getting nervous. Here is a taste […]
What it was like to be a Black man playing for the Kansas City Chiefs in the 1960s?
Here is Mark Dent at The Washington Post: When Mike Garrett, a Heisman Trophy winner from the University of Southern California, was drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in 1966, the only thing he knew about his new home was the […]