Fiona Hamilton of The Times (UK) has talked to some Trump-supporting evangelicals in Georgia. Here is a taste: The convention had been awash with talk of divine intervention and miracles even before Trump told delegates that “I’m not supposed to […]
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Environmental Ethics and Evangelical Politics
Love God, love the planet
2 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Thanks to Emma Bell for her assistance with this roundup As we have reported in these roundups, Franklin Graham was not happy when the Evangelicals for Harris movement used his father, evangelist Billy Graham, in a campaign ad. Here’s the […]
Blessing of Unicorns: Politics and virtues, 18 Jewish stories in 18 languages, and more books
This week’s Unicorns round up thoughts on politics and a lot of good books.
The Author’s Corner with Hunter Price
Hunter Price is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University. This interview is based on his new book, Sacred Capital: Methodism and Settler Colonialism in the Empire of Liberty (University of Virginia Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
Living With Kudzu
James Dickey gives one writer’s fears a local habitation and name
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: JD Vance and the Trump prophets Michael Dirda reviews Roland Allen, The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper. Intellectual humility Brent Staples reviews David Greenberg, John Lewis: A Life […]
Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Have you heard about “Project 19“? This is charismatic “prophet” Lance Wallnau’s name for the Seven Mountain Dominionist attempt to take 19 counties in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election. They are Cobb County (GA), Fulton […]
Blessing of Unicorns: Helene, hope, Lewis and Tolkien get graphic, faith and higher education, and conferences
Another Blessing of Unicorns upon your day—reads that made me stop, reflect, weep, or rejoice this week.
Pete Rose’s Search for Salvation
When hatred turns to pity
J. D. Vance Is My Guilty Pleasure
He is not a compassionate conservative, but I have compassion for him
Historian Patrick Joyce on peasants: “At the same time as the living watch over the dead, the dead watch over and care for the living”
Check out Gus Mitchell’s review of Patrick Joyce’s Remembering Peasants: A Personal History of a Vanished World. A taste: Joyce explores five key relationships of this peasant world: to the society of the village or commune, to the family and […]
40 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?
Here is today’s evangelicals and politics roundup: Christianity Today asks whether there is a Christian candidate in this presidential election. A recent Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs survey found that about 2 in 10 white evangelicals “say the word […]
The Author’s Corner with Kyle B. Carpenter
Kyle B. Carpenter is Associate Vice Chancellor of Academic Affairs at the University of Arkansas Rich Mountain. This interview is based on his new book, Globalizing the Lower Rio Grande: European Entrepreneurs in the Borderlands, 1749-1881 (University of North Texas […]
The University of Colorado at Colorado Springs opens the Center for the Study of Evangelicalism
Back in the day, there was a center at Wheaton College called the Institute for the Study of American Evangelicals. It closed in 2014. Today, there are few places devoted to the scholarly study of evangelical Christianity. Nor do many […]
We have now come to the point where *60 Minutes* is taking MAGA prophet Lance Wallnau seriously
Here is Wallnau talking about the “The Fourth Turning.” If you are not familiar with the idea of the Fourth Turning, here is a taste of my recent piece at Commonweal: In virtually all his public appearances, [Steve] Bannon references […]
The Little Art Gallery
How far will you let comfort take you?
…And then along comes a piece from Anne Lamott and I start to wonder if I am doing it all wrong.
In my line of work it is easy to spend beautiful days like this (at least on the East coast, I can’t speak for other regions) at the computer churning out words, words, and more words. I sometimes get anxious. […]
Voices from Home
A cardboard box of cassettes carries a whole lot more
The Last Christian
Secularization and the future