Here is CNN.COM: Wisconsin voters on Tuesday delivered Democrats their biggest boost since President Donald Trump returned to power, handing liberals a state Supreme Court majority and defying Elon Musk’s record-shattering effort to bolster a conservative Trump acolyte. Liberal Susan Crawford defeated conservative Brad […]
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Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: The president of Sojourners underestimated the religious right. When magazine writers got paid. Graydon Carter working on the railroad What Alan Simpson asked Robert Bork Why Commonweal changed its mind […]
Pivot Points: Chapter 22
Gratitude for a Life
The Court Evangelicals 2.0 gathered today in the White House
Back in the first Trump administration I coined the term “court evangelicals” to describe the evangelical Christians who gathered around Trump. Here is a taste of a piece I wrote in January 2020: Last Friday (Jan. 3), nearly every major […]
Pivot Points: Chapter 21
A Professional Grief Observed
REVIEW: The Scientific Study of Religion We Don’t Need
A study of religion that serves two masters fails in predictable fashion
Pivot Points: Chapter 19
What Trumps Trump?
Pivot Points: Chapter 16
Journalism or Public Relations?
Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 10)
Research, Writing, Editing, Uniting?
Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment (Chapter 9)
Good Times in Texas
“For Wheaton”: Come, Let Us Reason Together
An open letter to Eric Teetsel, the original signer of “For Wheaton”
“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for they will get an executive order.”
The day after Trump’s inauguration, the president attended an interfaith service at the National Cathedral. During the sermon, Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde urged Trump to consider the human dignity of immigrants, refugees, and members of the transgender community. She spoke […]
The Two-Thirds Compromise
Considering abortion in the shadow of slavery
Today is 52nd anniversary of Roe v. Wade: my reflections in Mere Orthodoxy
To hate the vulnerable—and wish their destruction—has become so normalized in our society as to go without notice.
Commonplace Book #307
Though the North’s triumph in the Civil War followed by the passage of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution were great and necessary achievements, the laws could do only so much work. A new solidarity was imposed […]
Russell Moore on Jimmy Carter’s salvation
Back In December, a podcaster asked Albert Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, if Jimmy Carter was a “born-again Christian.” Jimmy Carter always said he was a born-again Christian, but the podcaster’s question seemed to […]
First Thing We Do: Fire All the Strategists
The Democratic party fears risk more than it fears Trump
Blessing of Unicorns: the first of 2025!
Jimmy Carter tributes, reflection questions for recapping last year and planning for this new year, the writing life, John Wilson’s list of favorite nonfiction books of 2024, intensive parenting, family policy, and a response to ProPublica’s irresponsible blaming of pregnant women’s deaths on abortion bans.
Jimmy Carter at Messiah College
On February 18, 1986, Jimmy Carter visited Messiah College as the inaugural speaker for the college’s Religion and Society Lecture series. Here is a taste of Randy Frame’s coverage of the lecture at Christianity Today: Last month, Messiah College in […]
Jimmy Carter at The Way of Improvement Leads Home
We’ve spent considerable time covering Jimmy Carter over the years here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Albert Mohler “hopes and prays” that Jimmy Carter is saved (December 19, 2024) Happy 100th anniversary Jimmy Carter! (October 1, 2024) […]