What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicalism isn’t dying. John MacArthur publicly shamed and excommunicated a woman from the pulpit. He will also speak at a meeting of the Conservative Baptist Network ahead of the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. […]
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A University of Virginia student on the lack of intellectual diversity in American higher education
Emma Camp is just one voice at one school–the University of Virginia. I am sure campus progressives–students and especially faculty members–will dismiss her recent New York Times op-ed. When this post hits my Facebook page, I imagine a few academics […]
Evangelical roundup for March 3, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land: Joel Carpenter calls for a renewal of evangelical intellectual life. Darryl Hart sees a tension between and older and younger generation of evangelical historians: Pat Robertson plays the biblical prophecy card. And here: Ukrainian […]
Evangelical roundup for February 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? David Brooks talks to Russell Moore, one of the subjects of his recent piece on dissenting evangelicals. Moore says “crazy has become a church-growth strategy.” Not everyone likes it: I don’t know this guy […]
Evangelical roundup for February 17, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Scot McKnight on why evangelicalism needs salvation. Now the Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center is going after Tim Keller: An evangelical pastor and theologian enters the debate on historians and activism. I am […]
The President Lacks a “Sense of Urgency and Outrage”
The second of a two-part series on how the Christian Right fell in love with and then started to sour on George W. Bush
A fuller (no pun intended) response to the David Brooks New York Times piece on evangelical dissenters
On Friday I posted on Brooks’s New York Times essay “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself.” Shortly after I read the piece I got three wisdom teeth removed, so I am finally getting around to giving it a […]
The Author’s Corner with Paul A. Lombardo
Paul A. Lombardo is a Regents’ Professor and Bobby Lee Cook Professor of Law at Georgia State University. This interview is based on his book, Three Generations, No Imbeciles: Eugenics, the Supreme Court and Buck v. Bell (Johns Hopkins University […]
Evangelical roundup for January 31, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Former World Relief employee says the relief agency rescinded his job offer because he is in a same-sex marriage. We will see what happens here, but World Relief, as a religious organization, should have […]
Is there a case for impeaching Clarence Thomas?
In the wake of The New Yorker piece on his conservative activist wife Ginni, Michael Tomasky, editor of The New Republic, makes a case for the impeachment of Clarence Thomas. A taste: In a sane world, Jane Mayer’s excellent piece on […]
Evangelical roundup for January 24, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Are evangelicals changing their views on abortion? The court evangelicals who are part of Trump’s “National Faith Advisory Board” are marching for life: The evangelicals who think they are guardians of the Jewish faith. […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: “…when it comes to abortion, the left can speak of personal choice in overly simplistic ways” Reading the classics with love Wilt, Joe, or Simone? Christian horror movies Early American […]
Biden-Cheney in 2024?
Tom Friedman floats the idea in his New York Times column. His model is Israel. Here is a taste: Could this play come to Broadway? I asked Steven Levitsky, a political scientist and co-author of “How Democracies Die,” after he presented some […]
How Twitter exploits intimacy and rewards ideological purity
Here is C. Thi Nguyen at The Raven: Twitter tempts us with a delicious possibility: that we might find connection with total strangers. On Twitter, we can discover people who share our moral vision—or, at least, our weird tastes in […]
Cynical Political Moves Are Not the Best Way to Overturn Roe v. Wade
A failure of integrity and goodwill blemish the pro-life cause
Evangelical roundup for December 9, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Mark Driscoll needs money “after a year of trials.” What is Rob Bell up to these days? Three more kidnapped missionaries in Haiti are released. On listening to evangelicals. Robert Jeffress, one of the […]
Gerson: The GOP view on vaccines is not pro-life
Yesterday we wrote about Michael Tomasky’s piece titled ““The Right Wants to Freedom Us to Death.” Today we have Michael Gerson’s Washington Post column, “How is the GOP’s coronavirus recklessness compatible with being pro-life?” Here is a taste: During last […]
The Democratic race for Pat Toomey’s Senate seat reveals the divisions in the party
The frontrunner is Pennsylvania Lieutenant Governor John Fetterman. His top challenger is western Pennsylvania congressman Conor Lamb. Here is Holly Otterbein at Politico: One candidate promises he won’t be a centrist Democratic senator like Joe Manchin or Kyrsten Sinema. Another […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Daniel Hummel, Remote Work, Redux Daniel K. Williams, Why It Took a Pro-Choice Politician to Remind Pro-Lifers of “Human Dignity and Value” Elizabeth Stice, Memes Eat Brains M. Elizabeth Carter, […]
Evangelical roundup for December 2, 2021
What is going on in Evangelical land? Christianity Today reports on what happened in the Supreme Court yesterday related to abortion. True: Also true: Franklin Graham comes out strong (as expected) on Dobbs v. Jackson. Amicus briefs on Dobbs v. […]