In February, Calvin University president Wiebe Boer resigned. Get up to speed here. Bob Smietana of Religion News Service has more details. Here is a taste of his piece: The trustees of Calvin University released a statement Thursday (March 28), […]
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Jesus and the powers
I am looking forward to reading N.T. Wright’s and Michael Bird’s new book Jesus and the Powers: Christian Political Witness in an Age of Totalitarian Terror and Dysfunctional Democracies. This morning I got a small taste of the argument as […]
Socialism needs Christian ethics
Dustin Guastella is director of operations for Teamsters Local 623. Check out his piece “Christianity, Morality, and Socialism” at Jacobin. We linked to this piece in Sunday night’s odds and ends. But after reading it more closely, I thought I […]
“The Church of Trump”
Check out Michael Bender’s New York Times piece on how Trump is infusing Christianity into his MAGA movement. Here is a taste: Mr. Trump’s braiding of politics and religion is hardly a new phenomenon. Christianity has long exerted a strong […]
Jeremy Allen White will play Springsteen in a film about Nebraska
Here is The Guardian: Jeremy Allen White looks set to swap his white t-shirt for a vest later this year, when he takes on the role of Bruce Springsteen for a new biopic, once shooting is completed on the fourth […]
“The New Testament…condemns personal wealth not merely as a moral danger, but as an intrinsic evil”
Here is a taste of David Bentley Hart’s recent piece at Jacobin: Most modern (and especially most American) Christians are quite accustomed, for instance, to thinking of Christianity as a fairly commonsensical creed as regards the practicalities of life. On […]
Evangelical roundup for April 1, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals are good at retaining members Evangelicals respond to Trump’s endorsement of the “God Bless the USA” Bible John Inazu on Tim Keller Christianity Today reporter Kate Shellnut on the SNL skit: Swiss evangelicals […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why was Joseph Epstein fired from the editorship of the American Scholar. George Will’s baseball quiz David Brooks on liberalism Andrew Sullivan on Trump and the God Bless the USA […]
President Joe Biden’s Easter proclamation
Happy Easter. Here is today’s Easter message from Joe and Jill Biden: Jill and I send our warmest wishes to Christians around the world celebrating Easter Sunday. Easter reminds us of the power of hope and the promise of Christ’s […]
Happy Easter!
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Evangelical roundup for March 28, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals want more sermons on immigration. Russian evangelicals condemn a terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall and rejects calls for revenge. Karen Swallow Prior on Al Mohler and abortion abolitionists NOT cross buns […]
Trump proves he is “pro-God” by hawking the Lee Greenwood (“a very special guy”) “God Bless the USA” Bible
Watch: A few quick thoughts: On the Lee Greenwood Bible, check out Jay Green’s piece, “Lee Greenwood Christianity.” Is Trump doing this to raise money to help pay his bond in the Stormy Daniels hush-money case? If so, he is […]
Infrastructure funding and the pro-life agenda
I wrote this piece for Religion News Service back in 2021. I am re-upping it today: In the early 19th century, during America’s first era of infrastructure development, Christians were some of the country’s strongest supporters of what were then […]
Liberty University students come to Washington D.C. to engage with Trump’s congressional surrogates
The students–hundreds of them–heard speeches by Marsha Blackburn, Bob Goode, Tom Emmer, Lauren Boebert, Tom Cotton, Jim Jordan, Andy Biggs, Ted Cruz, Rand Paul, Speaker Mike Johnson, and others. New president, same old stuff. Here is the Liberty website: Hundreds […]
Another liberal arts college is closing
Birmingham-Southern College, a United Methodist liberal arts college that opened before the Civil War (1856), is closing on May 31. Here is Alabama.Com: After a long fight for a loan from the Alabama legislature, Birmingham-Southern College announced Tuesday that it […]
Laurie Maffly-Kipp is the new Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies at the University of Virginia
Congratulations to Professor Maffly-Kipp! Here is the press release: We’re excited to welcome Prof. Laurie F. Maffly-Kipp, who has been appointed the new Richard Lyman Bushman Chair of Mormon Studies at UVA, upon the retirement of Prof. Kathleen Flake. Maffly-Kipp […]
The Author’s Corner with Shaun S. Nichols
Shaun S. Nichols is Assistant Professor of History at Boise State University. This interview is based on his new book, Manufacturing Catastrophe: Massachusetts and the Making of Global Capitalism, 1813 to the Present (Oxford University Press, 2024). JF: What led […]
Evangelical roundup for March 25, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Reuters discovers Trump evangelical media. Are evangelicals responsible for violence in the Middle East? Evangelicals disrupt pre-Lenten partying in Brazil. World Vision on Gaza: Are evangelicals placing power over politics? Russell Moore tries to […]