Reiner’s “God and Country” drops today. Christianity Today asked me to review it. Here is a taste of my review: Heave an egg out a Pullman window,” social critic H. L. Mencken famously said in 1925, “and you will hit […]
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Could we see a Manchin-Romney ticket in 2024?
West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin may be launching a third-party bid for president in 2024 as the candidate of the bipartisan No Labels organization. And he also may be picking Mitt Romney as a running mate. Or maybe none of […]
Matt Lewis: Today’s GOP would’ve rooted for Ivan Drago
Here is Matt Lewis at The Daily Beast: At some point in my lifetime, the Republican Party went from saying, “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!” to effectively telling Russia’s current leader, “Mr. Putin, invade our NATO allies.” I’m left wondering how […]
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:
Alexi Navalny dies in a Russian prison. He was 47.
Here is NBC News: Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has died in prison, the country’s state media reported Friday, ending a yearslong fight against corruption and the Kremlin that saw him survive several poisoning attempts. He was 47. A prominent critic of […]
The “center is on immigration”
In case you missed it, a centrist Democrat, Tom Suozzi, won the special election to replace disgraced U.S. congressman George Santos in New York District 3. Immigration was at the heart of the campaign. Here is the editorial board of […]
Evangelical roundup for February 15, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Should evangelicals fear Nones? French evangelicals launch a “Stop Abuse” website. Russell Moore talks politics, faith, and mission. The Asbury Revival: One year later. The National Association of Evangelicals celebrates Black History Month: Evangelical […]
Presidential love letters
Here is your Valentine’s Day post. It comes, via LitHub, from Are You Prepared for the Storm of Love Making?: Letters of Live and Lust from the White House. A taste: When a man writes a letter to a woman […]
Can Presbyterians fall in love?
I published this piece at Common-Place, back in 2008. I thought I would repost it for Valentine’s Day: Can Presbyterians fall in love? Okay, everyone falls in love, but when people think of Presbyterians they normally conjure up images of […]
“Some of the richest men in the world may be deciding the fate of humanity right now”
The quote in the title of this post comes from writer Garrison Lovely‘s recent Jacobin piece, “Can Humanity Save AI?” Here is a taste: One of the more influential ideas in x-risk circles is the unilateralist’s curse, a term for situations […]
Damon Linker urges Democrats to pick a new presidential candidate
Writer Damon Linker, a former conservative (he was once editor of First Things), is the latest to claim that Biden’s decision to run again is a selfish act. He makes the case today at The Atlantic: The Democratic Party is […]
Texas GOP congressman Chip Roy: Democrats want to “end Western civilization” with open borders
Here is Ben Metzner at The New Republic: Texas Republican Representative Chip Roy may have stirred up disunity in the GOP earlier this year with his threats to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson, but he’s in lockstep with the rest of his […]
February 8, 2024 revealed a democracy about to fall off a cliff and the American people didn’t bother to “get off the couch.”
Here is Will Bunch of The Philadelphia Inquirer: Some night around the year 2064, when the ragtag children of the last historians huddle around a cave fire and mix up some berries and the blood of their groundhog dinner to […]
“Elite hypocrisy on marriage”
Brad Wilcox, professor of sociology at the University of Virginia, writes: “The privileged classes would never dream of saying one form of family life is better than another. So why are they always married?” Here is a taste: “Is it […]
Is Joe Biden’s decision to run again an act of selfishness?
Biden is running for president again at the age of 81. I voted for him in 2020 believing he would serve one-term, get the country back on track after the disastrous Trump years, and then ride off into the sunset. […]
Richard Allen, the founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, eulogizes George Washington
I was in Mount Vernon last weekend for a gala event to commemorate the 250th anniversary of Pohick Church, the Anglican (now Episcopalian) church where George and Martha Washington attended. (George Mason attended as well). It was a great event. […]
As the evangelical deck starts to reshuffle, consider making sense of it all at Current
We have never understood Current as a Christian or religious publication, but we do have a foot in the larger debates surrounding evangelical Christianity. In case you haven’t been paying attention, the evangelical community is going through a lot of […]
Biden jokes about his age and memory
Remember this: And today Joe Biden offered this: I love it! It seems like this is the best way for Biden to address the “age” issue in the wake of the recent special counsel’s report on classified documents.
Evangelical roundup for February 12, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Are evangelicals a minority? Young evangelical support for Israel keeps dropping. Regime evangelicals World Vision on child soldiers: Ukraine evangelicals respond to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin. Justin Giboney on the crisis at the […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Eric Banks reviews Benjamin Taylor, Chasing Bright Medusas: A Life of Willa Cather. Tracy Chapman and Luke Combs: A “balm for our sorely divided nation.” Carter Woodson and Black History […]