Aaron Burr recruits for an uprising in the West
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Come Be a Fool as Well
A reflection on faith
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
This roundup is extra-long and a good bit of it is about orienting our loves and our reading towards the good, the true, and the beautiful.
The working class Christian faith of Shawn Fain in historical context
We have covered Fain’s Christian faith before at this blog. Check out our posts here and here. Today CNN is running a long-form piece by John Blake on the religious beliefs of the leader of the United Auto Workers. Here […]
On the difference between Current and Substack
Nearly three years ago I began to reevaluate what I was doing at my relatively successful blog, The Way of Improvement Leads Home. There was money to be made at Substack, and I considered signing-up, but something didn’t seem right […]
Salvation Army of One
On the illusion of self-salvationÂ
More on that David French piece on the “moral collapse” at Liberty University
In case you don’t know what I am talking about in the title of this post, get up to speed here. I am sure that Liberty University and its supporters will dismiss French’s piece as yet another hit job by […]
Israel’s Liturgy of National Suffering
A long crimson thread links the present to the past
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
Abortion and Pro-Life Politics: A Conversation, Part II
“The United States is a liberty theme park. When we’re bullies, we lose.”
Evangelical roundup for October 5, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals who support Trump is “about as unChristian as it gets.” A new book on Billy Graham crusades and evangelical worship. A “See You at the Pole“” update. Warner Pacific University gets a grant […]
Shawn Fain’s Christian radicalism
Earlier this week I wondered why people were not talking and writing more about UAW president Shawn Fain’s Christian faith. Church historian Heath Carter has published the piece I was hoping for. Here is a taste of his Jacobin article […]
The Christian faith of UAW’s Shawn Fain
He carries a Bible and regularly invokes his faith as he leads the United Auto Workers in a historic strike against the country’s three largest automakers. For Fain, the strike is a “righteous cause.” This reminds of Eugene Debs’s claim […]
What I Didn’t Know About School Shootings
Six months after Nashville, a follow-up report
Jerry Falwell Jr. knows where all the bodies are buried at Liberty University
The disgraced former president of Liberty University, Jerry Falwell Jr., is in the midst of a legal war with his brother and the university which forced him out of office. The fight is over the legal legacy of Jerry Falwell […]
FORUM: What Does Higher Education Need Now? Part Two
This is one crisis that must not go to waste
FORUM: What Does Higher Education Need Now? Part One
This is one crisis that must not go to waste
Utilitarianism, higher education, and pricing human life
Recently, my eight-year-old son has become mildly obsessed with the nineteenth-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Inspiring my son to write his own illustrated last will and testament, upon his death Bentham bequeathed his body to science, requesting that following a […]
Tricky Dick and Don
A tale of two very different January 6thsÂ
Trump court evangelicals, prophets, and pseudo-historians will gather with Charlie Kirk in San Diego this week to train pastors
This week over 1,000 Christian pastors will converge on San Diego for the Turning Point USA “Pastors Summit.” According to the event website, this event will highlight “the need for pastors and their congregations to stand for truth and no […]