Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Greg Williams, “DC DISPATCH: Dare to Discipline“ Robert Erle Barham, “The Pandemic and the Mystery Novel“ Daniel K. Williams, “Abortion and the Class Divide“ Eric Miller, “Party Like It’s 1789“ […]
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Evangelical roundup for May 5, 2022: Roe v. Wade edition
What is happening in Evangelical land? They are responding to the leaked draft of Samuel Alito’s Roe v. Wade majority decision. Read the press release from the National Association of Evangelicals. Christianity Today reports here. And a bunch of other […]
Why overturning Roe is not a conservative choice
I imagine that readers of this blog will have differing opinions of New York Times conservative columnist Bret Stephens. But it is hard to argue with the fact that he is a consistent conservative. Here is a taste of his […]
Alito majority draft: “We hold that Roe and Casey must be overruled”
Here is Politico: The Supreme Court has voted to strike down the landmark Roe v. Wade decision, according to an initial draft majority opinion written by Justice Samuel Alito circulated inside the court and obtained by POLITICO. The draft opinion is a full-throated, unflinching […]
A Pro-Life Strategy for the Blue States
Regional divisions may require an approach that seeks common ground
More on Utah Democrats and Evan McMullin
Here is veteran political journalist Walter Shapiro at Roll Call: The most intriguing political development in recent weeks had nothing to do with inflation, Ukraine, the pandemic, border control or redistricting. And it did not take place in Washington or […]
More Southern Baptist drama
This comes from a blogger called “The Masked Baptist“: SBC entities work for the churches. Right? We thought so too. But what about when employees of an SBC Entity refuse to help stop the blackmail a Southern Baptist pastor and try to […]
Commonplace Book #214
The radical feminists’ assertion that a woman has absolute property in her body provoked mirth from those who, like Betsey [Fox Genovese], knew that the modern Left had arisen to oppose the bourgeois theory of absolute property in anything. Betsey […]
What if Disney left Florida?
The governor of Colorado has rolled-out the red carpet for Disney. Here is Dana Milbank: Mickey Mouse needs a sanctuary city. Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Hades) got his state legislature this week to abolish the favorable tax arrangement that brought Disney World to Orlando and […]
Evangelical roundup for April 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Hungarian evangelicals love Vicktor Orban. Kristin Kobes Du Mez and NAE president Walter Kim talk about masculinity and evangelicalism with religion writers: Indian evangelicals arrested during Easter services. Evangelicals love private jets: Do evangelicals […]
Trump endorses Dr. Oz in Pennsylvania U.S. Senate race
Donald Trump just endorsed Mehmet Oz’s candidacy for the Pennsylvania U.S. Senate seat currently held by Pat Toomey. Here is Trip Gabriel at The New York Times: Wading into a tight Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania, former President Donald J. […]
Ted Cruz endorses Josh Mandel in Ohio Senate race
Ah Christian Right politicians! You’ve got to love the way they have each other’s backs. Josh Mandel is running for Senate in Ohio in the pro-Trump lane. He does not believe in the separation of church and state, thinks the […]
Evangelical roundup for April 4, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Randall Balmer on the Mark Galli sexual harassment charges. Evangelical worship leader Sean Feucht does not want you to be fooled: Jim Wallis on mixing religion and politics. Two important evangelical voices meet: Franklin […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Drew Gilpin Faust reviews Linda Hirshman, The Color of Abolition: How a Printer, a Prophet, and a Contessa Moved a Nation What have we learned from the Black Plague? What […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Nadya Williams, “Putin’s Heritage of Lethal Incompetence“ John Fea, “Joe Biden’s Flip-Flop on Abortion“ Christopher Shannon, “Woke Wars and the Future of Public Life“ John Haas, “Avoid War“ Daniel K. […]
Is Ketanji Brown Jackson an evangelical Christian?
As Adelle Banks notes in her recent article at Religion News Service, the first Black woman nominated to the Supreme Court has said virtually nothing about her religious background. Here is a taste: When she spoke at the first day […]
As promised, Jon Meacham will lecture at Samford University
Back in November, I wrote a piece at Current titled “Canceling Jon Meacham.” Here is a taste of that piece: …I thought about Meacham’s visit to Messiah, a Christian university with strong ties to American evangelicalism, when I learned that […]
Jonathan Franzen understands 1970s Christian youth culture
I finished Jonathan Franzen’s novel Crossroads over the weekend. I don’t read too much fiction, but this was a book I couldn’t put down. Perhaps I will write a review of it when I get the time, but for now […]
The Author’s Corner with Gene Zubovich
Gene Zubovich is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Buffalo. This interview is based on his new book, Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF: […]
Evangelical roundup for March 14, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Christians who enabled Putin. Evangelical worship pastor Sean Feucht does not appear interested in a fourth COVID-19 shot: God and Trumpism unite at Trump’s new site, Truth Social: A call for Russian Bonhoeffers. Eric […]