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Evangelical roundup for November 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Mike Huckabee is fired-up about global poverty CBS: American evangelicals and the antiabortion movement in Israel. Evangelicals respond to the possible end of Twitter. Did Trump “use” evangelicals? Election denier David Brody is starting […]
Trade Herschel Walker
Running to resign may be his best move—and Team GOP’s best move, too
The Author’s Corner with Christen Mucher
Christen Mucher is Associate Professor of American Studies at Smith College. This interview is based on her new book, Before American History: Nationalist Mythmaking and Indigenous Dispossession (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Before American […]
My Evangelical Mind
In my experience, born-again Christianity was not always anti-intellectual
The Author’s Corner with Evan C. Rothera
Evan C. Rothera is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, Fort Smith. This interview is based on his new book, Civil Wars and Reconstructions in the Americas: The United States, Mexico, and Argentina, 1860–1880 (LSU Press, 2022). […]
How to Avert a Partisan Civil War
Can each side find a way to preserve freedom for the other?
The Author’s Corner with Lloyd Barba
Lloyd Barba is Assistant Professor of Religion at Amherst College. This interview is based on his new book, Sowing the Sacred: Mexican Pentecostal Farmworkers in California (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Sowing the Sacred? LB: Having […]
The Author’s Corner with Patrick Luck
Patrick Luck is Assistant Professor of History at Florida Polytechnic University. This interview is based on his new book, Replanting a Slave Society: The Sugar and Cotton Revolutions in the Lower Mississippi Valley (University of Virginia Press, 2022). JF: What […]
“What is the State of the Evangelical Mind on Christian College Campuses?”
In September 2017, the founders of Current (Jay Green, Eric Miller, and yours truly) participated in a conference in Indianapolis on the “State of the Evangelical Mind.” (This was 3-4 years before we launched Current). We spoke at a session devoted to the legacy of […]
The Author’s Corner with Jordan E. Taylor
Jordan E. Taylor is a writer and editor who has published in the Journal of the Early Republic, Early American Studies, and more. This interview is based on his new book, Misinformation Nation: Foreign News and the Politics of Truth in Revolutionary […]
Students at the University of Florida protest Ben Sasse’s visit
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse is the sole finalist for the presidency of the University of Florida. Sasse has been a vocal critic of Trump and Trumpism. Court evangelical pastor Robert Jeffress once called him a “disgrace to the Republican Party, […]
The Author’s Corner with Alan J. M. Noonan
Alan J. M. Noonan is an independent historian. This interview is based on his new book, Mining Irish-American Lives: Western Communities from 1849-1920 (University Press of Colorado, 2022). JF: What led you to write Mining Irish-American Lives? AN: I have […]
Dropping out of College: A Crisis We Must Address
Amid deep structural challenges, remember the power of a personal response
Fear and Loathing at Independence Hall
Another angle on President Biden’s Philadelphia speech—word by word
The Queen and Conservatism
God save the queen—and all the other institutions that need saving
Evangelical roundup for September 22, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? 60% of evangelicals want America to be declared a Christian nation. Theological heresies evangelicals believe. Evangelicals and Catholicism. A forum on evangelicals and voting in Brazil. Tim Tebow auctions-off his Heisman Trophy. When the […]
Seeing New Things, Asking New Questions
What I learned about the evangelical embrace of Trump from watching old news clips
Biden’s Philadelphia Speech: Theoretically Coherent, Constitutionally Important
The president’s case against “MAGA Republicans” is strong
The Author’s Corner with Jane Hooper
Jane Hooper is Associate Professor of History and Director of Undergraduate History Programs at George Mason University. This interview is based on her new book, Yankees in the Indian Ocean: American Commerce and Whaling, 1786–1860 (Ohio University Press, 2022). JF: […]