The governor of Colorado has rolled-out the red carpet for Disney. Here is Dana Milbank: Mickey Mouse needs a sanctuary city. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Hades) got his state legislature this week to abolish the favorable tax arrangement that brought Disney World to Orlando and […]
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Man Cannot Spend All His Time in Taverns
The first in a series of meditations on Ignazio Silone’s Bread and Wine
Bricolage
A life crafted from what’s on hand
Picking Up a Snake
Certitude and cynicism alike bow to wonder—at least every now and then
Look Not to the Dead and Dying
Independence has its place. Dependence has a bigger one.Â
The Author’s Corner with Lance Greene
Lance Greene is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Wright State University. This interview is based on his new book, Their Determination to Remain: A Cherokee Community’s Resistance to the Trail of Tears in North Carolina (University of Alabama Press, 2022). […]
Dreams of Democracy
In the midst of autocratic threat, vision sharpens
Neighborhood Watch
Does loving our neighbor require us to love our neighborhood as well?
Evangelical roundup for March 3, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land: Joel Carpenter calls for a renewal of evangelical intellectual life. Darryl Hart sees a tension between and older and younger generation of evangelical historians: Pat Robertson plays the biblical prophecy card. And here: Ukrainian […]
Celebrating the Humanity of Edmonia Lewis
We do this American artist a disservice by failing to acknowledge her contradictions
Don’t teach your kids how to ski
It doesn’t seem worth the investment. Eric Margolis explains at The New Republic: With an average of 16 feet of snowfall per year, Sapporo, Japan is one of the snowiest places on earth. But at the last Sapporo Snow Festival, […]
Albert Mohler responds to David Brooks’ essay on evangelical reformers
Writing at WORLD magazine, the latest imperial conquest of the fundamentalist fiefdom over which he presides, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary president Albert Mohler has responded to David Brooks’s recent New York Times piece on evangelical dissenters. Let’s break it down: […]
Beach Body, Beat Body
Lazy evil underpins society just as much as active evil. Why do we forget?
Legible Bodies
Our bodies tell our stories—and prophesy our futures, too
Evangelical roundup for January 31, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Former World Relief employee says the relief agency rescinded his job offer because he is in a same-sex marriage. We will see what happens here, but World Relief, as a religious organization, should have […]
How did the 2022 Winter Olympics end up in Beijing?
Those who listen to The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast know historian Bruce Berglund. He last appeared on the show in February 2021 to talk about his new book on global hockey. You can listen to that interview here. […]
“The Preacher Must Be an Amos”
Christians who use Martin Luther King, Jr. to fight secularism may be the kind of Christian he preached against
Saturated Phenomena
As the new year begins, we do well to consider what is there before us
Angels From Another Angle
Henry Ossawa Tanner’s Angels Appearing Before Shepherds urges us to see the familiar anew
Evangelical roundup for December 13, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? More scandal at Liberty University. A sports ministry legend has died. Another QAnon conference at an evangelical megachurch: The next big religious liberty case before the Supreme Court. Evangelical views on Joe Biden: Evangelical […]