What is happening in Evangelical land Do evangelicals need to get in touch with the ancient church? Carl Trueman thinks so. But wasn’t Thomas Oden making this argument more than 20 years ago? Evangelicals continue to tackle immigration reform. Michael...
Pastor Patrick Wiedemeier of Anchor Point Baptist Church in Webster City, Iowa prayed at Saturday night’s Trump rally in Fort Dodge, Iowa. You can watch his prayer at the 1:40.51 mark of this YouTube video. Pastor Wiedemeier starts by reading...
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The wealthy no longer use their riches to support society. When hillbillies migrated to the cities and joined the white working class. What if the United States lost World War...
Just thinking out loud, folks: Here is the entire tweet: Having just come from ETS, Iāve come to believe that winsomeness might not be quite at the center of the bullseye for what besets so much of evangelicalism. I do...
Michael Bird is the Academic Dean of Ridley College in Melbourne. He is author or editor of over a dozen books. Recently, Bird wrote a piece at his Substack page titled “How I Changed My Mind on Woke.” I can’t...
French talks to Mark Oppenheimer at Inside Higher Ed about Liberty University. Listen: French says he is still getting emails from people saying that his New York Times column on Liberty University did not go far enough in exposing the...
Nikki Haley is surging in New Hampshire with a little more than two months to go before the January 23, 2024 primary. Can she win the GOP nomination? It’s a long shot. But according to journalist Ron Brownstein she has...
George Packer of The Atlantic thinks so. Here is a taste of his recent piece: It seems natural for creative people to speak out at a time of crisis. We look to them for words and images that provide clarity...
Journalist Jon Ward, the author of Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation, recently asked me the question in the title of this post as part of a story he is writing on David Barton for Yahoo News....
Here are the most popular features of the week atĀ Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week atĀ The Way of Improvement Leads HomeĀ blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week atĀ The ArenaĀ blog:...
Travis D. Boyce is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at San JosƩ State University. This interview is based on his new book, Steady and Measured: Benner C. Turner, A Black College President in the...
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is running as an independent candidate for President of the United States. One recent poll has him at 22% in a three-way race with Biden and Trump. His father, Robert F. Kennedy, was a United States...
Two fights almost broke-out this week on Capitol Hill. You can read all about them here. The most famous fight in congressional history happened in 1856 when Preston Brooks of South Carolina caned Charles Sumner of Massachusetts in the Senate...
As best I can tell, the last time the name “Stanley Fish” appeared in the title of a post at this blog was August 2013. I did a post on Russell Jacoby’s New Republic piece, “Stanley Fish Turned Careerism into...
Michael A. Blaakman is Assistant Professor of History at Princeton University. This interview is based on his new book, Speculation Nation: Land Mania in the Revolutionary American Republic (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Speculation...
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals continue to drive support for Israel. French evangelicals march against antisemitism. Matthew Lee Anderson on Karen Swallow Prior’s “evangelical imagination.” The Mike Johnson porn-blocker app story won’t disappear. Walter Kim of the National...
Followers of this blog know that I am a big fan of writer George Scialabba. (I have never met Scialabba, but I am guessing that he would be uncomfortable with the word “fan.”) If you are not reading Scialabba you...
David Houpt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington. This interview is based on his new book, To Organize the Sovereign People: Political Mobilization in Revolutionary Pennsylvania (University of Virginia Press, 2023). JF: What led...
We have had a jam-packed Summer-Fall 2023 season at the podcast that included: Theresa Runstedlter on the American Basketball Association and race. Daniel Hummel on dispensationalism Stephen Prothero on mid-20th-century religious publishing. Larry Eskridge on the Jesus People Rachel Swarns...
An Emerson College poll has the former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador running a clear second to Trump in the Granite State’s GOP primary race. She jumped from 4% in September to 18% in November. Donald Trump: 49% (He...
