Alicia Jackson teaches history at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Here is a taste of her Washington Post piece, “Black Americans have long envisioned and created spaces of sanctuary”: On a plot of land near Toomsboro, Ga., three dozen people […]
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Evangelical roundup for December 2, 2021
What is going on in Evangelical land? Christianity Today reports on what happened in the Supreme Court yesterday related to abortion. True: Also true: Franklin Graham comes out strong (as expected) on Dobbs v. Jackson. Amicus briefs on Dobbs v. […]
Yet another student sues Liberty University for failing to investigate her rape
Last summer twelve former students and employees of Liberty University sued the school for “creating a campus environment where sexual assaults and rapes are forseeably more likely to occur than they would in the absence of Liberty policies.” Today we […]
Evangelical roundup for November 29, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? The old Trump court evangelicals are divided over vaccine mandates for soldiers. It looks like “Elite Evangelicalism” is now “Big Evangelicalism”: Chik-fil-A and the National Prayer Breakfast. Agreed: Kristin responds to her critics: And […]
Current welcomes Robert Erle Barham as Associate Editor!
Today we published Robert Erle Barham’s fifth piece at Current, “Memory Stones.” We also want to welcome Robert Erle to Current as an Associate Editor. Robert Erle is Associate Professor of English at Covenant College in Lookout Mountain, Georgia. He […]
Memory Stones
Treasure from the past surfacing in the present? That’s reason for thanksgiving
Pope Francis addresses “social poets”
Francis takes on credit institutions, pharmaceutical companies, mining, agribusiness, food corporations, arms manufacturers, technology and telecommunications giants who promote fake news, and neo-colonialism. Here is a taste of the text of the Pope’s latest video message “for the popular movements”: […]
Infestation
On this troubled earth, daybreak can’t come quickly enough
Does Howard Zinn’s “A People’s History of the United States” make students hate America?
As longtime readers of this blog know, I have my issues with Howard Zinn‘s A People’s History of the United States. I stand by what I have written about this book over the last decade or so. We’ve covered him […]
Waking Up
If infirmity shadows us, other kinds of presence do, too
COVID-19 continues to sweep through the Liberty University campus
488 cases and over 1000 students in quarantine. Get up to speed here and here. Here is the local ABC affiliate: Even though Liberty University implemented a temporary campus-wide quarantine on Monday, the total number of active coronavirus cases and […]
From Whore to Helpmate
Katie Luther went from being depicted as a vile prostitute to a happy homemaker. Why does that matter?
Rip Patton, freedom rider, RIP
Today I learned from my friend and colleague Todd Allen that yet another veteran of the civil rights movement has passed away. Here is the Associated Press: Ernest “Rip” Patton, a member of the Nashville Freedom Riders and civil rights […]
Evangelical roundup for August 12, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Christian Reconstructionists are thriving in Moscow, Idaho under the leadership of Douglas Wilson. True: Slacktivist responds to Current managing editor Jay Green’s recent piece on “exvangelicals.” Bless your pastor: Do evangelicals still care about […]
What did the congressman know about the insurrection?
What did William Seward (NY) and Henry Wilson (MA) know about the John Brown raid on Harper’s Ferry? Here is Sidney Blumenthal at The Guardian: The House select committee on the 6 January insurrection at the Capitol, according to chairman […]
Reforming Evangelicalism
Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) recently released its 2020 Census of American Religion. It revealed that white evangelical Christians have been in a nearly continuous state of decline since 2006. In that year they made up twenty-three percent of the […]
Outside the Baseball Diamond
Choreographed struggle on the field. Real struggle all around it.
Who were the evangelical Christians who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021?
I have already introduced readers to Tyler Ethridge, a Seven Mountain Dominionist trained at Charis Bible College’s David Barton School of Government. But Ethridge was not the only evangelical Christian at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Here is Michelle […]
What did evangelicals say this weekend about July 4th?
I was going to add this to today’s Evangelical Roundup, but I thought I would include it in a separate post. Now if we can get this kind of tweeting on Easter or Pentecost Sunday. David French offers a lesson […]
South Carolina and the First “Big Lie”
On the battlefield at Gettysburg, competing historical narratives force an encounter with the truth