The Washington Post video team is running a mini-documentary on pastors running for political office. The piece features Cameron McGill, a Bladen County Commissioner and pastor of White Lake Church. McGill was “recruited and trained” by the American Renewal Project. […]
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The Author’s Corner with Peter Ekman
Peter Ekman is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Southern California’s Center on Science, Technology, and Public Life and at the Berggruen Institute. This interview is based on his new book, Timing the Future Metropolis: Foresight, Knowledge, and Doubt […]
LONG FORM: Can Christians Write?Â
Make no mistake: Christian art offers a distinctive gift to the world
Election Day was 8 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?
Donald Trump has appointed Mike Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist preacher turned governor of Arkansas turned presidential candidate turned Christian television talk show host, the ambassador to Israel. Christian Zionist groups are very excited about the appointment. Here is Joel […]
The Author’s Corner with Derek G. Handley
Derek G. Handley is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee. This interview is based on his new book, Struggle for the City: Citizenship and Resistance in the Black Freedom Movement (Penn State University Press, 2024). […]
Interview: Chris Gehrz, College for Christians
Your choice of college may be less important than the choices you make at college.
The Philadelphia Historical District may get a major makeover
Here is Frank Kummer at The Philadelphia Inquirer: A group of Philadelphia-based organizations, led by Independence Historical Trust, has crafted a broad vision for the city’s historical area that calls for more walkable and bike-friendly streets, new plazas, additional green […]
Byung-Chul Han: An interview with Steven Knepper, Ethan Stoneman, and Robert Wyllie
A new book on “the internet’s new favorite philosopher”–an interview with the authors.
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-Riaño wants to stop the blood lust. Why his call rings hollow.
Cornerstone University president Gerson Moreno-Riaño has a piece at The Washington Times titled “America has an unending lust for bloodshed. We need divine intervention.” Read it here. Gerson Moreno-Riaño calls for an end to American “blood lust”: James Fenimore Cooper’s […]
The Trump intellectuals
Many of them gather at the Claremont Institute in Southern California. Here is a taste of Ruth Graham’s New York Times piece, “Why a New Conservative Brain Trust is Resettling Across America”: The Claremont Institute has been located in Southern […]
The Author’s Corner with Richard E. Ocejo
Richard E. Ocejo is Professor of Sociology at John Jay College and the City University of New York Graduate Center. This interview is based on his new book, Sixty Miles Upriver: Gentrification and Race in a Small American City (Princeton […]
Loyalty, Not Merit; Confidence, Not Data
The fight for common sense in everyday life, after social science
The Author’s Corner with Dean Lampros
Dean Lampros is Lecturer in the Department of History, Philosophy, and the Social Sciences at the Rhode Island School of Design. This interview is based on his new book, Preserved: A Cultural History of the Funeral Home in America (Johns […]
Claudine Gay’s “Truth” Should Be a Wake-Up Call for Catholic Higher Education
Is there—or is there not—a higher good?
How We Saved WORLD Millions of Dollars
There are important lessons for conservative media in the massive Dominion/Fox settlement. Is anyone listening?
Asbury University revival roundup: February 20, 2023 at 11:58AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury University president Kevin Brown announces the new schedule change: Asbury University’s director of communication: The local NBC affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky published […]
Special evangelical roundup: Asbury University revival edition
NOTE: I’ve decided to move the updates to this original post to separate posts. You can read them all here. What is happening in Evangelical land? Revival has hit Asbury University again. Get up to speed here. What are people […]
Tim Keller hopes for spiritual revival
A lot of conservative evangelicals are calling for spiritual revival these days. Most of these calls are connected directly to a revival of American nationalism as if somehow the purpose of a religious revival is to advance a particular political […]
FORUM: In Quest of a Liberal Framework
If liberalism as an ideology is flawed, as a governing framework it remains indispensable
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