What is happening in Evangelical land? White Southern evangelicals are leaving churches. Most complaints about “evangelical elites“ How “weak” is evangelical theology? Southern Baptists appoint a pastor to lead the fight against sexual abuse: Beth Moore orders her tombstone: The […]
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The House Next Door
It’s never just a building that goes up in smoke
The Author’s Corner with Andrea McDowell
Andrea McDowell is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law. This interview is based on her new book, We the Miners: Self-Government in the California Gold Rush (Harvard University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write […]
The Claremont Institute in the wake of January 6th
The conservative pro-Trump think tank has a John Eastman problem. Here is Marc Fisher and Isaac Stanley-Becker at The Washington Post: Early in 2016, as Donald Trump’s march toward the Republican presidential nomination gathered the air of inevitability, alumni of […]
Seeing Bathsheba
There’s more art history than you realize in your old children’s Bibles
Wendell Berry’s forthcoming book will “offend most everyone”
The 87-year-old agrarian writer lets it rip in his forthcoming book The Need to Be Whole: Patriotism and the History of Prejudice. Here is a description of the book, which is scheduled to appear in early October: Wendell Berry has […]
Evangelical roundup for July 18, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Will evangelicals separate from John MacArthur? Justin Giboney quotes Megan McCardle on the Hawley-Bridges exchange: Concordance-ism Why Paul Weyrich is key to our understanding of abortion’s role in the culture wars. Robert Jeffress is […]
Beauty Through the Bedroom Rug
Are our capacities for perception up for what reality demands?
I am truly humbled that you are reading Current
Don’t get me wrong–I am humbled that you are reading our work here at Current. I would be even more humbled if you became a patron. But the title of this post plays off of David Brooks’s recent piece at […]
We Fought
Violence at school isn’t new. So what is?
FORUM: The End of Roe, Day Two
A time to listen
The Author’s Corner with Susan Brandt
Susan Brandt is a lecturer in history at the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs. This interview is based on her new book, Women Healers: Gender, Authority, and Medicine in Early Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: What led you […]
Veneration
In the lives of great writers we touch divinity and face humanity
Evangelical roundup for June 20, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Will evangelicals endorse Trump in 2024? Charles Marsh on growing up evangelical. EGOD? The Gospel Coalition on Juneteenth. Beth and Russell: Will the Southern Baptist Convention be “smaller and purer or bigger and more […]
The Massacre of the Innocents
Can art of the past help us better grieve the present?
Pyrotechnics
Sometimes reality requires an explosion
Is College Really Worth It?
For those wary of macro-debt, a micro-college may be the way to go
The Pandemic and the Mystery Novel
How do we discern the plot of life?
A Pro-Life Strategy for the Blue States
Regional divisions may require an approach that seeks common ground
How small towns survive
According to writer Tim Holt, they need a “Plan B.” Here is a taste of his piece at Zocalo Public Square: Mount Shasta, California, and Ashland, Oregon did it right. Located in the California–Oregon border region where I live, they avoided […]