A few things online that caught my attention this week: Joseph Priestley and time. The American history textbooks wars of the 1920s Rereading Benedict Anderson’s Imagined Communities The Diggers Against paywalls When nostalgia was a disease. Daniel K. Williams reviews […]
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What is trending 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:
A Search for Spiritual Certainty
Sometimes it’s hard for a young boy to understand the mystery of faith
Evangelical roundup for April 11, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Conservative evangelicals want Trump to do more on abortion. I have never heard of Josh Garrels, but he is apparently a “prominent Christian musician.” The Red Letter Christians think he may be a coward. […]
Evangelical roundup for April 8, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? What can American evangelicals learn from the global church? Compassion for rural ministers. Micah Watson reviews Russell Moore’s Losing Our Religion. Ukraine evangelicals need U.S. support Shane on the earthquake and book deals: Is […]
REVIEW: Pity for EvilÂ
The story of abortion and nineteenth-century feminism gets its due
Evangelical roundup for April 4, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Hispanic evangelicals are a growing force. Evangelicals: Politically diverse, biblically similar. I think Mike Huckabee agrees. Evangelicals and in vitro fertilization. Thomas Schirrmacher resigns as General Secretary of the World Evangelical Alliance Esau McCaulley […]
Evangelical roundup for March 28, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals want more sermons on immigration. Russian evangelicals condemn a terrorist attack at a Moscow concert hall and rejects calls for revenge. Karen Swallow Prior on Al Mohler and abortion abolitionists NOT cross buns […]
Banning Subterfuge
Resisting elisions in pro-choice positions in the search for compromise
Legal Sausage-Making and IVF
The LePage case in Alabama deserved a wiser political response
REVIEW: Why Aren’t Americans Having Children?
In Timothy P. Carney’s book, a complicated question receives an illuminating answer
Blessing of Unicorns: historic bathrooms, relationships, war, and a job in Antarctica
In this roundup, stories about historic bathrooms, relationships, war, and a very promising job opening in Antarctica.
Donald McGovern?
The unexpected resonances of a dreary presidential campaign
Evangelical roundup for March 11, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? World Vision USA celebrates International Women’s Day: Late Canadian prime minister Brian Mulroney and evangelicals. Kay and Rick Warren have started a new non-profit: Rick on the Kingdom of God: D.G. Hart: Evangelicalism is […]
How can we end the semiannual time changes?
As we struggle to get through the first workday of daylight saving time, the big question is: why are we doing this again?
Evangelical roundup for March 7, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? How evangelicals became a voting bloc. More on evangelicals defending immigrants. Tim Tebow testifies before Congress and talks about a “biblical definition of hope” for sexually abused children. A World Vision staff member is […]
Civil religion is different from Christian Nationalism
The frequent references to God in national life or even to a divine source of human rights are not necessarily the same thing as Christian nationalism.
John MacArthur rejects Christian nationalism
Michael Foust has the story at Christian Headlines: The pastor of Grace Community Church and the host of the popular radio ministry Grace to You made the comments during a Q&A session at his congregation last week.   Asked to give his opinion on […]
Today at USA Today: “The politics of character in American evangelicalism is over”
Happy to help USA Today’s Chris Brennan with his most recent USA Today column. Here is a taste: “John Fea, a history professor at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, explains it as ‘a contractual relationship’ between Trump and his evangelical supporters. […]
Newly elected New York congressman Tom Suozzi echoes RFK’s 1968 campaign
Yesterday I posted a piece on Tom Suozzi’s victory in the New York 3 special election to replace George Santos. During the campaign, Suozzi praised the recent Senate bipartisan border bill, calling it “the toughest and fairest set of reforms […]