The institutions evangelicals oppose have Christian origins
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Enrollment is up for 1 in 5 evangelical colleges and universities: Christianity Today’s report last week
Mission matters.
Interview: Chris Gehrz, College for Christians
Your choice of college may be less important than the choices you make at college.
4 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA is using evangelical churches for GOP “get out the vote” rallies. MSNBC reports: Turning Point Action, founded by conservative provocateur Charlie Kirk, has held GOP vote-chasing events with at least 22 churches in six swing […]
Blessing of Unicorns: safety, motherhood, Halloween poetry, loving one’s hometown, and a brief break
A few Unicorns for you a day or two early, because the Williamses are at a conference, so this blog will take a brief break until Monday
“Students would stop, perhaps look over at a bookshelf, or just say, point-blank, that they didn’t read.”Â
Over at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Beth McMurtrie writes: Students seem increasingly cynical about the value of college, transactional in their approach to learning, and frustrated by their coursework. On college tours and in admissions literature, they are promised […]
Trump on the policy proposals in Project 2025: “They are extreme, I mean they are seriously extreme”
If you want to a get a sense of The Heritage Foundation’s “Project 2025,” check out our coverage of last Monday’s “Policy Fest,” a Heritage event held in conjunction with the Republican National Convention. The following organizations serve on the […]
FORUM: Christopher Lasch (II)
Thirty years after Lasch’s death, how should we remember him?
Historian Jane Kamensky is the new president at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
Kamensky comes to Charlottesville from Harvard University’s history department. Here is the press release: CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA – The Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the private nonprofit that owns and operates Monticello, is pleased to announce the appointment of Jane Kamensky, Ph.D., as […]
When Teaching Maus Becomes an Act of Faith
Sometimes the book that’s banned is the one that must be taught
The Queen and Conservatism
God save the queen—and all the other institutions that need saving
Evangelical roundup for September 19, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Philip Yancey tells his story. Bolsonaro rallies Brazilian evangelicals. The Olasky-less World magazine take on the matter. As evangelicals continue to prop-up the MAGA movement, people are exiting the pews. Shane remembers the 1963 […]
Where’s the praying Bremerton football coach?
Back in June the U.S. Supreme Court said Joseph Kennedy, an assistant football coach at Bremerton High School in the state of Washington, could pray with his team on the field. Kennedy was on paid leave until, I presume, the […]
Dinesh D’Souza, a Christian apologist, calls Bill Barr an overweight, immobile, “Fatso.”
Dinesh D’Souza is the former president of a Christian College and the author of What is So Great About Christianity. He is also a financial huckster who needed a Trump pardon. His version of “Christian” politics was on full display […]
Evangelical roundup for June 6, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? “My body, my choice?“ A member of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Executive Committee says that taking steps to prevent sexual abuse in churches is a bad idea Andy Stanley: Evangelicals are facing a “state […]
“Does academic freedom protect professors espousing white supremacist ideas?”
Here is Michael BĂ©rubĂ©, and Jennifer Ruth at The New Republic: Does academic freedom protect professors espousing white supremacist ideas? The answer, for the past hundred-and-more years since the founding of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 1915, has […]
Putin’s public memory law
Regular readers of the blog know that I am very interested in the way Putin uses a particular view of the past to justify his invasion of Ukraine. I talked with historian Bruce Berglund about this in Episode 96 of […]
It’s Time to Celebrate Jury Duty
Are you looking for a badge of honor? This one gleams brighter than we know.
Evangelical roundup for November 22, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Al Mohler lists four temptations facing the Evangelical Theological Society: Fundamentalism, Atheism, Catholicism, and Theological Liberalism. He defines “fundamentalism” in terms of retreat from the world and certain “theological eccentricities.” He does not define […]
Evangelical roundup for November 18, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Do evangelicals prioritize power or truth? I guess you need to draw the line somewhere ;-): “[Owen] Strachan stated that ‘I don’t believe in separate races … We’re one human race. That’s what I […]