A nice piece of reporting here by Stephanie McCrummen. Here is a taste of “The Woman Who Bought a Mountain For God”: On the day she heard God tell her to buy a mountain, Tami Barthen already sensed that her life […]
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Pennsylvania senator Bob Casey Jr. is running for re-election in 2024
Good news from Pennsylvania! Here is John Salant from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: U.S. Sen. Bob Casey announced Monday that he will run for re-election next year, a boon for Democrats in a must-win race for the party to hold the […]
The shooting today at a Nashville Christian school: Some early responses
The Covenant School is an elementary school affiliated with Covenant Presbyterian Church, a congregation in the Presbyterian Church in America. (Since the shooting this morning, Covenant Presbyterian Church appears to have taken down its website.) The school is a member […]
Evangelical roundup for March 13, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land?: A veteran religion writer tackles women in the ministry. Baptists and Pentecostals lead the way in the promotion of God-fueled American exceptionalism. Ten books about Billy Graham. Ed Stetzer’s nameplate: How Rick Warren changed […]
The MAGA evangelical revivalists are no longer silent about the Asbury Revival
Last week I wondered why the pro-Trump, Make America Great Again, Christian nationalist revivalists were not noticing the spiritual revival going on at Asbury University in Wilmore, Kentucky. These people believe that the United States was founded as a Christian […]
Evangelical roundup for February 16, 2023 at 9:30pm
What is happening in Evangelical Land? If you want to get up to speed on the Asbury Revival, we are covering that here. This roundup focuses on the currently unrevived world of evangelicalism. Women Talking There are more evangelicals than […]
Current‘s most read features in 2022
Thanks to all of you who read Current features in 2022. Editor Eric Miller and his team did a wonderful job recruiting high-quality writers who wrote thought provoking essays. And there is more to come in 2023! Here are the […]
Anti-Semitism at Flood Tide
And what evangelicals can do about it
Zakaria: The GOP must purge Trump
Do the results of the 2022 midterm elections represent a serious wound, if not a mortal wound, to Donald Trump and Trumpism? Not really. Take the issue of election denial. Kari Lake lost her gubernatorial bid in Arizona, but the […]
What is going on at Eastern University?
Eastern University, the school that has brought you, at one time or another, Ronald Sider (seminary faculty), Tony Campolo (faculty), Shane Claiborne (graduate), Brian Stevenson (graduate), Roberta Hestenes (president), Wilson Goode (faculty), Peter Enns (faculty), Allen Guelzo (faculty), and Doug […]
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: What’s happening at Christian colleges and universities? Is DeSantis the GOP front-runner for 2024? Alan Taylor reviews Stacy Schiff’s The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams New books in American political history Dwight […]
Some quick thoughts on abortion and Christian nationalism in the 2022 midterm elections
I talked to the Associated Press this week. A taste: KENTUCKY, USA — In the midterm elections, evangelical Christians across the nation reconfirmed their allegiance to conservative candidates and causes, while Catholic voters once again showed how closely divided they are […]
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Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog:
Evangelical roundup for November 10, 2022: Midterm election edition
How is Evangelical land responding to the 2022 Midterm Elections? 88% of Georgia evangelicals voted for Herschel Walker. 81% of Wisconsin evangelicals voted for Ron Johnson. Jim Wallis working as a polling chaplain: Christianity Today: “Republicans Win on Inflation but […]
It looks like clergy will be able run for office in Tennessee. Slavery is out of the Vermont constitution. And the rest of our election night coverage.
Here are some of our tweets from last night: Very early in the night Lance Wallnau, the self-described prophet, sensed election fraud in Pennsylvania and Georgia: Meanwhile, Charlie Kirk, the MAGA pundit, was keeping everyone relaxed: Trump got into the […]
Evangelical roundup for November 7, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land: Is immigration an opportunity or a threat for evangelicals? Oxford evangelicals are not happy with their diocesan bishop’s stand on same-sex marriage. More here. Herschel Walker wants redemption without atonement. Shane receives a Beloved […]
For MAGA Christians, it doesn’t matter if the founding fathers’ quote they use is true, as long as it rallies the base
Dutch Sheets is a leader in the New Apostolic Reformation, a brand of charismatic evangelicalism that powers the Christian MAGA movement. Sheets leads pro-Trump prayer tours around the country, travels around with Lance Wallnau, Charlie Kirk and others where he […]
Evangelical roundup for November 3, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Some evangelicals support political violence. How a Moody Bible Institute graduate changed his mind about Black Lives Matter. Tim Keller’s new book: Peter Wehner talks about his opposition to Trump. Truth: RIP: Blast from […]
The “amoral Trump clown show” that Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, and others are passing off as a religious revival
Last week I devoted my weekly Current column to the meaning of Christian baptism and the way the pro-Trump ReAwaken America tour was desecrating that sacred Christian rite. Today at Religion News Service, writer Jacob Lupfer tells us more about […]
Evangelical roundup for October 31, 2022
What is going on in Evangelical land? The growing political influence of Latino evangelicals. More on progressive evangelicals in Brazil who reject the “Bolsonarization of Churches” How Christian ethics became right wing populism. Jim Wallis on the attack on Paul […]