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Singing songs about Jerusalem
Holy Week centers on historical events that took place in Jerusalem almost 2,000 years ago. This reality makes demands of us.
Pat and Stacy
Love never fails. But human beings sure do.
Swing Low
This election season Pennsylvanians have come out swinging—again
Evangelical roundup for March 14, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical and Catholic tensions on immigration Evangelicals are going to Israel as “wartime volunteers” Are Latino evangelicals rejecting the Democratic Party? More here. 100 evangelicals are in prison in Ortega’s Nicaragua. Pennsylvania churches raise […]
The Author’s Corner with Michael J. Megelsh
Michael J. Megelsh is Assistant Professor of History at Blue Mountain Christian University. This interview is based on his new book, Adelbert Ames, the Civil War, and the Creation of Modern America (The Kent State University Press, 2024). JF: What […]
The U.S. Department of Education hits Liberty University with a $16 million penalty for creating a culture of fear on campus
Back in October 2023 we brought your attention to Liberty University’s failure to keep its students safe. One campus safety consultant called the U.S. Department of Education’s review the “the most blistering Clery report I have ever read. Ever…I cannot […]
Jane Kamensky, the new president of Monticello, prepares for the 250th commemoration of the nation’s founding
Last October, we noted that historian Jane Kamensky will be the new president of Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. In a recent interview with the American Historical Association, Kamensky reflects on her role at Monticello in light of the 250th commemoration of […]
Evangelical roundup for March 4, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Peter Wehner asks: “Where did evangelicals go wrong?“ Randall Balmer on evangelicals and music. World Vision responds to the Texas wildfire: Evangelicals vs. the GOP on immigration reform. Also here. Latino evangelicals and Christian […]
Evangelical roundup for February 29, 2024
Happy Leap Day! Here is what is happening in Evangelical land? Marvin Olasky reviews Mike Cosper, Land of My Sojourn: The Landscape of a Faith Lost and Found. Evangelicals continue to push for immigration reform. Evangelicals are essential players in […]
Johnson Throws the Knuckleball
Spring training is here. Decisions must be made. Listen in.
Evangelical roundup for February 12, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Are evangelicals a minority? Young evangelical support for Israel keeps dropping. Regime evangelicals World Vision on child soldiers: Ukraine evangelicals respond to Tucker Carlson’s interview with Putin. Justin Giboney on the crisis at the […]
Embracing Nostalgia
The good old days weren’t always good. But sometimes they were.
The making of Joel Belz
Joel Belz’s life story displays the strengths of American evangelicalism at its height.
That Time Our Car Was Stolen
On unexpected departures and returns
Doug Wilson: The Civil War was fought over “federalism” and “decentralized power”
Over the Christmas holiday, GOP presidential candidate and former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley got in hot water for this: Over at The Guardian, Steve Phillips asks why we are still debating the cause of the Civil War. A taste: […]
Was Martin Luther King Jr. a Christian Nationalist?
America’s founding meant something very different for King than it does for today’s Christian Right
Current contributing editor Adam Jortner battles Britney Spears for top spot on Audible
Adam Jortner is the Goodwin Philpot Eminent Professor of Religion in the History Department at Auburn University and contributing editor here at Current. He is also an Audible rock star. His “The Hidden History of the Boston Tea Party” is […]
Creek
What dimension of eternity is in your sights?
Losing Our Voices
Artificial intelligence threatens our capacity to listen to others—and ourselves