What happens when party loyalty and a cult of personality trumps our loyalty to the checks and balances built into the United States Constitution? We have a Constitutional crisis like the one we are currently experiencing. Here is Robert Kagan […]
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How the Party of the College Educated Became the Party Opposed to College
A class divide over education portends danger for a democratic people
Evangelical roundup for September 23, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? The majority of white evangelical Protestants believe Donald Trump is a “true patriot.” When the KKK funded Billy Sunday: The president of the National Association of Evangelicals meets with Biden. Men’s groups are reading […]
Joe Manchin’s massive ego
Here is Will Bunch’s piece at The Philadelphia Inquirer on the West Virginia Senator who, along with Arizona’s Kyrsten Sinema, is standing in the way of Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion “social infrastructure” bill. As the summer of 2021 comes to […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The Baffler addresses efforts to rehab liberalism The culture wars are an “elite device” Can social media be politically productive? A history of the index McWhorter: Systemic racism exists. Now […]
Evangelical roundup for September 9, 2021
What is going on in Evangelical land? Trump-voting Southern Baptist Al Mohler writes a 2500-word article on Joe Biden titled “A Profile of Moral Collapse.” He announced on Twitter that his article is “New and urgent”: A Texas evangelical explains […]
Evangelical roundup for September 6, 2021
What is going on in Evangelical land? Tony Evans brings Kingdom Race Theology to Liberty University: Progressive evangelicals and other Christians are responding to gun violence I don’t know what panel Ed Stetzer is talking about, but this seems fair: […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Daniel K. Finn reviews Benjamin M. Friedman’s Religion and the Rise of Capitalism A conservative Washington Post columnist calls Kevin McCarthy a demagogue Hanging out with The Eagles on the […]
The Mar-a-Lago evangelicals are back with something called the “National Faith Advisory Board.” Let’s break it down!
The American people removed the king and his evangelical court from the throne last November, but some of the pro-Trump evangelical courtiers are not going down without a fight. Here is Forward magazine: Former Trump evangelicals are launching a new […]
Tweet of the day
From a Seminole County, Florida school board meeting: Based on what he says here, Michael Beck should be pro-choice on abortion, but something tells me he is not. Here is his entire speech. It picks up at the 1:48:10 mark:
Evangelical roundup: Texas Heartbeat Act edition
What are evangelical Christians saying about the Texas Heartbeat Act? Here’s a bonus addition of the roundup. And it’s not behind the Current paywall! 🙂 James Dobson on Facebook: Just before midnight last night, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a […]
Making sense of the Texas Heartbeat Act
Read Texas Senate Bill 8 here. Some highlights: The bill says that Texas “never repealed, either expressly or by implication, the state statues enacted before the ruling in Rove v. Wade…that prohibit and criminalize abortion unless the mother’s life is […]
Evangelical roundup for September 2, 2021
What is going on in Evangelical land? Will evangelicals who tell the truth continue to lose their jobs? The VP of the National Association of Evangelicals on Afghanistan: The evangelical governor of Mississippi says that “when you believe in eternal […]
Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look.
Liberty University president Jerry Prevo begins the journal with a quote from John Adams: Before my God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and […]
“Worldview”: No Substitute for Facts
What does reason require us to believe?
Evangelical roundup for August 12, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Christian Reconstructionists are thriving in Moscow, Idaho under the leadership of Douglas Wilson. True: Slacktivist responds to Current managing editor Jay Green’s recent piece on “exvangelicals.” Bless your pastor: Do evangelicals still care about […]
Senate passes $3.5 trillion dollar budget framework. Hyde Amendment is saved. Anti-Critical Race Theory amendment passes.
It’s a done deal. Elections have consequences. The American people rejected Trumpism in 2020. Now the Democrats, who rode the anti-Trump wave into office last November, have the power to get some things done. National Public Radio explains what is […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular Current features of the last week: Daniel Williams, Abortion and the Class Divide Philip Gorski, Three Cheers Mark Schwehn, Plague Theology Christopher Shannon, BIden and the Bishops John Ragosta, Government and the Private Side of the Wall […]
Evangelical roundup for August 5, 2021
What is going on Evangelicalland? Evangelicals cited for passing out bologna sandwiches without a permit! How dare they! I pray this is true: Some evangelicals are supporting Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan. Are nones less vaccinated than evangelicals?: “Non-woke truth church”: […]
Biden and the Bishops
Don’t be deceived: In American politics, it’s religion all the way down