Back in October 2023 we brought your attention to Liberty University’s failure to keep its students safe. One campus safety consultant called the U.S. Department of Education’s review the “the most blistering Clery report I have ever read. Ever…I cannot […]
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Jane Kamensky, the new president of Monticello, prepares for the 250th commemoration of the nation’s founding
Last October, we noted that historian Jane Kamensky will be the new president of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. In a recent interview with the American Historical Association, Kamensky reflects on her role at Monticello in light of the 250th commemoration of […]
The Author’s Corner with Caleb Wellum
Caleb Wellum is Assistant Professor of U.S. History at the University of Toronto, Mississauga. This interview is based on his new book, Energizing Neoliberalism: The 1970s Energy Crisis and the Making of Modern America (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2023). JF: […]
Let a 1000 president-inspired insurrections bloom!
Yesterday, the Supreme Court overturned the Colorado Supreme Court’s decision to remove Donald Trump from the ballot in Colorado. I am not a legal scholar, but doesn’t this decision suggest that Section 3 of the 14th Amendment of the United […]
Evangelical roundup for March 4, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Peter Wehner asks: “Where did evangelicals go wrong?“ Randall Balmer on evangelicals and music. World Vision responds to the Texas wildfire: Evangelicals vs. the GOP on immigration reform. Also here. Latino evangelicals and Christian […]
Politico’s Heidi Przybyla responds to critics of her “Christian nationalism” comments
Last month Politico journalist Heidi Przybyla told Michael Steele of MSNBC that people who believe human rights come from God are Christian nationalists. We addressed her comments here and here. As we covered last week in one of our Evangelical […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: James Davison Hunter: “We now simply lack an adequate vocabulary for making moral judgments or for directing moral action in our public or private lives.” Abandoned churches On intellectual humility […]
When it comes to Ukraine funding, Liberty University students appear to be America first
Liberty University’s culture war arm, the Standing for Freedom Center, interviewed some students about Ukraine funding and the southern border. Watch: Liberty students and alum: Do you hold similar views on U.S. funding for Ukraine?
What is happening at the American Bible Society?
My book The Bible Cause: A History of the American Bible Society ends just before the society’s 200th anniversary in 2016. If you want to get a sense of what has happened to this storied benevolent society since then, check […]
Goodbye Nashville (for now)
I’ve spent a little over a month in Nashville in 2024. In mid-January I was in the Music City during a snowstorm that paralyzed the city. I managed to get a little research done on my current book project during […]
“Should the president now go scot-free, we will teach the next generation very different, more cynical rules”
Here is David Gergen during the Bill Clinton impeachment investigation in 1998: …At the end of the day, we should recognize that the heart of this case is not about Clinton, nor is it about Starr. It is about us, […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
The Author’s Corner with John William Nelson
John William Nelson is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Tech University. This interview is based on his new book, Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago’s Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent (University of North Carolina Press, 2023). JF: What […]
Evangelical roundup for February 29, 2024
Happy Leap Day! Here is what is happening in Evangelical land? Marvin Olasky reviews Mike Cosper, Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found. Evangelicals continue to push for immigration reform. Evangelicals are essential players in […]
National parks that help us remember the country’s darker moments
Here is Ben Railton at The Saturday Evening Post: On February 19th we commemorated a sad anniversary: the 72nd anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt signing Executive Order 9066, the proclamation that created the federal policy of Japanese American incarceration. We now have a new collective […]
Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History
We at Current are thrilled that one of our contributing editors, Wheaton College’s Timothy Larsen, is President-Elect of the American Society of Church History. As part of his responsibilities, Tim is the conference co-chair for the 2025 meeting of the […]
John MacArthur rejects Christian nationalism
Michael Foust has the story at Christian Headlines: The pastor of Grace Community Church and the host of the popular radio ministry Grace to You made the comments during a Q&A session at his congregation last week.   Asked to give his opinion on […]
Saturday Night Live spoofs Trump’s GOP lackeys
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry:
Eric Metaxas: “We are beyond politics”
Eric Metaxas believes the country has moved “beyond politics.” It’s now an all-out spiritual war. Here is one his latest tweets: He believes Joe Biden is a murderer: In this interview, Metaxas and conservative journalist Megan Basham go after Russell […]
Calvin University president Wiebe Boer resigns after sending “unwelcome and inappropriate” messages
Here is WOOD-TV in Grand Rapids: The president of Calvin University has resigned after admitting to sending inappropriate messages to someone on campus, the school says. President Wiebe Boer’s “unwelcome and inappropriate” communication was with a “non-student member of the campus […]