Axios is reporting that Trump is already considering cabinet appointments. For Vice-President, Trump is considering Ohio Senator J.D. Vance, Arkansas governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders, failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate and election denier Kari Lake, South Dakota governor Kristi Noem, Florida representative […]
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Robert Kagan: “Will the people who selfishly refuse to put their own ambitions at risk finally act to save our democracy?”
Last week we brought your attention to Robert Kagan’s Washington Post piece on the potential of a Trump dictatorship should he be elected in 2024. Kagan was back at the post yesterday with a piece titled, “The Trump dictatorship: How […]
A blessing of unicorns: a weekly roundup
This week’s unicorns consider education at all levels, parenting and personhood, sandwiches, and self-help.
There is a good chance Trump will lose Iowa in January 2024
On Friday,July 14th the GOP candidates for president will get a chance to speak to Iowa evangelicals. Bob Vander Plaats, the most powerful Christian Right activist in the Hawkeye State, is sponsoring the event. Tucker Carlson is hosting it. Fox […]
The never-Trumpers, the semi-fascists, and the rationalizers
Over at The Bulwark, Nicholas Grossman breaks down the GOP into three categories: TO UNDERSTAND WHY THIS SEGMENT of Republicans is so DeSantis-needy, let’s briefly revisit the typology of the GOP following its crackup. Donald Trump’s election and presidency split […]
East Palestine, Asbury, and some notes on my mom
My mother hails from East Palestine, Ohio. Her roots there run deep. Around 1908, her grandfather left his Tyler, West Virginia home with his young family—including their toddler son, George, my grandfather—in search of steady work. They traveled north up […]
FiveThirtyEight Hates Democracy
The search for “more accurate polls” is nonsense and harms America
The power of a Trump endorsement in Ohio
If you read one thing to get up to speed on the J.D. Vance’s win in the Ohio GOP primary for U.S. Senate, I recommend Alex Shephard’s short piece at The New Republic. A taste: In a seven-person race full […]
Evangelical roundup for April 28, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? More troubles related to rape at Liberty University. Don’t expect young Southern Baptist pastors to jump on the boycott Disney bandwagon. A writer defends Christian culture warriors at the Albert Mohler-World outlet. A pastor […]
Evangelical roundup for February 10, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Thabiti Anywabwile is no longer an evangelical. This guy has a few things to say about it: Wayne Grudem is lecturing in a “Women of Momentum” series: Also this: How social justice and CRT […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Andrew Gustafson, “Wide Awoke in Corporate America?“ Sarah Imboden, “Only Connect“ John Fea, “Was Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty Refreshed on January 6th?“ Adam Jortner, “Found Footage: January 6 and the […]
What are incoming first-year college students reading this summer?
As part of its first-year experience program, incoming first-year students at Messiah University are reading Rebecca Skloot’s The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. They will not be alone. Here is Audrey Williams June and Jacquelyn Elias at The Chronicle of […]
“What do we call a man who turns on everything he once claimed to believe?”
J.D. Vance Here is Tom Nichols at The Atlantic: What do we call a man who turns on everything he once claimed to believe? For a practitioner of petty and self-serving duplicity, we use “sellout” or “backstabber.” (Sometimes we impugn […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Handwritten letters Loggers and environmentalists Did Biden hit the wrong Georgia? Nancy Isenberg on J.D. Vance How Annette Gordon-Reed uses social media Wheaton College and evangelical missions The most interesting […]
Rick Warren vs. the Southern Baptist Convention: A guide to understanding the controversy
On Tuesday, the country will be focused on the historic federal indictment of a United States president. But 12,000 Southern Baptists in New Orleans will be listening to a three-minute speech by one of the most popular megachurch pastors in […]
Can Anything Good Come from a Southern Baptist Megachurch?
On Molly Worthen’s evangelical conversion
Evangelical roundup for May 11, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? In case you haven’t heard, a prominent historian and scholar of American evangelicalism converted to Christianity last year through the ministry of J.D. Greaar, the pastor of a large Southern Baptist Church in North […]
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 […]