Here are the most popular Current features of the last week: Jay Green, CURRENT and the #Exvangelical Dilemma Steve Waldman, The Return of Local News M. Elizabeth Carter, Fishing for Faith John Fea, Where Benjamin Franklin Can’t Take Us John Fea, […]
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Recovered from the archives: “An Open Letter to the Students of Charis Bible College”
Yesterday a reader told me that he was searching for this 2016 post and couldn’t find it. It seems to have disappeared from The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog. But I managed to find it at another site on […]
Evangelical roundup for July 12, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? A lot of commentators–evangelical or otherwise–are responding to the recent PRRI survey. Sarah Jones at New York Magazine. NPR. Michelle Boorstein at The Washington Post. The Burlington (VT) Free Press. Natalie Jackson at Five […]
Who were the evangelical Christians who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021?
I have already introduced readers to Tyler Ethridge, a Seven Mountain Dominionist trained at Charis Bible College’s David Barton School of Government. But Ethridge was not the only evangelical Christian at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Here is Michelle […]
What did evangelicals say this weekend about July 4th?
I was going to add this to today’s Evangelical Roundup, but I thought I would include it in a separate post. Now if we can get this kind of tweeting on Easter or Pentecost Sunday. David French offers a lesson […]
Evangelical roundup for July 5, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Some evangelical pastors are afraid to recommend the COVID-19 vaccination because they don’t want to divide their congregations. The big takeaway at the Presbyterian Church in America General Assembly was an overture on gay […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular Current features of the last week: Adam Jortner, Found Footage: January 6 and the Horror Movies that Made It Scott Hancock, South Carolina and the First ‘Big Lie’ Greg Williams, D.C. DISPATCH: SUBVERT the SUBJECT Lines! John […]
Evangelical roundup for June 28, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Miami evangelicals are stepping-up to the plate in Surfside, Florida. David Barton at First Baptist-Dallas for Freedom Sunday. True: Jim Wallis say “farewell” to Sojourners: Some evangelicals are gathering to read Frederick Douglass on […]
Evangelical roundup for June 24, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Young evangelicals are fed up. Is this true? Evangelical love Braveheart Looks like another great episode of The Holy Post: Evangelicals won a victory against fundamentalists at the Southern Baptist Convention’s annual meeting. This […]
How do Christian nationalists deal with the Establishment Clause?
Recently, a scholar in another discipline asked me how Christian nationalists who study the American past “ignore, navigate around, or distort the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.” I address this in Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A […]
Evangelical roundup for June 21, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Some pics from last week’s SBC meeting in Nashville. Jack Graham is glad to be a Southern Baptist: Christianity Today reporter Kate Shellnut on what she saw at the SBC Annual Meeting. Last weekend’s […]
Matthew Karp critiques the “stamped from the beginning” approach to history
Princeton historian Matthew Karp offers a stinging criticism of the “stamped from the beginning” view of American history. Here is a taste of his Harper’s piece “History as End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.” Whatever birthday it […]
Evangelical roundup for June 17, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? A lot of Southern Baptist stuff. You can get up to speed here and here and here and here and here. Will the hard right of the Southern Baptist Convention leave the denomination? The […]
Evangelical roundup for June 14, 2021 (Southern Baptist Convention edition)
What is going on in Evangelicalland? The Southern Baptists are converging on Nashville this week. Here are some links to help you put the annual meeting in context: Sarah Pulliam Bailey has a helpful piece on what is at stake. […]
Virtually every thing Jack Hibbs says in this video about Washington at Valley Forge is wrong
In the winter of 1777-1778 the Continental Army faced one of its lowest points in the Revolutionary War. British troops under the direction of General William Howe were in control of Philadelphia. George Washington’s soldiers were coming off major defeats […]
The Education of an Evangelical Insurrectionist
“I’m probably going to lose my job as a pastor after this.” Tyler Ethridge was days away from starting a new job as a youth pastor at an evangelical church in Florida. But before the former Texas high school football […]
Evangelical roundup for April 26, 2021
What is happening in Evangelicalland? An evangelical pastor is concerned about how students at conservative Christian schools and homeschoolers will remember January 6, 2021. It’s a legitimate concern, especially when you have folks like David Barton, Eric Metaxas, and Charlie […]
The second Trump presidency is two months old. What are evangelical saying?
Let’s check-in on the world of evangelicals and politics. Several high-ranking Trump officials, including Vice President JD Vance, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, shared military strike plans on an unsecure Signal channel. Military strike […]
I took a week off from blogging. What is happening on the evangelicals and politics front?
I took the last week off to write. (More on that later). What happened in the world of evangelicals and politics while I was gone? Let’s check in: Jenna Ellis offers another “lesson” in the politics of human dignity: Jenna, […]
REVIEW: Renaissance Man
Charlie Peacock’s memoir drives deep into evangelicalism’s historic twentieth-century turn