John Wigger is Professor of History at the University of Missouri. This interview is based on his new book, The Hijacking of American Flight 119: How D.B. Cooper Inspired a Skyjacking Craze and the FBI’s Battle to Stop It (Oxford […]
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Review: Why we still need Jonathan Edwards
American Christians today may be in danger of venerating Jonathan Edwards either too much or too little
Utilitarianism, higher education, and pricing human life
Recently, my eight-year-old son has become mildly obsessed with the nineteenth-century English philosopher Jeremy Bentham. Inspiring my son to write his own illustrated last will and testament, upon his death Bentham bequeathed his body to science, requesting that following a […]
Evangelical roundup for September 14, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals talk to the dead. Is “Christian Right” an oxymoron? An evangelical higher education “hole” in New York City. Evangelicals against the death penalty in Florida. Russell Moore: “Culture war is not spiritual warfare.” […]
Evangelical roundup for September 11, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Mylon Lefevre, RIP A Houston megachurch pastor opposes buoys at the border. French evangelicals are more concerned about climate change than the rest of the country. An Iowa evangelical church’s food pantry is open. […]
REVIEW: Homo Legens
Can we move beyond an instrumental approach to reading?Â
Growing Up Absurd: American ineptitude
This is the last in a series of three articles based on Growing Up Absurd, a 1960 classic of cultural criticism by Paul Goodman (here are Part I and Part II). While not all the book would have been written […]
What Rise of Christian Nationalism?
There’s a deeper reality at play
LONG FORM: Field Notes from the Basic Seminar
The pathos—and consequences—of our longing to be shiny happy people
Evangelical roundup for August 3, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Karen Swallow Prior talks to Russell Moore about The Evangelical Imagination. The founder of a British Pentecostal credit union has died. Is The King’s College actually closing? More here. Oral Roberts University signs its […]
Ideas in progress: Colleen Vasconcellos on Jell-O, the history of piracy, and Pirates of the Caribbean franchise
This is Part I of a two-part post. Stay tuned for Part II coming next week, which will focus more on Colleen’s on-going research on enslaved girls and manumission in Jamaica. As you are getting ready for a new academic […]
Ideas in Progress: Rick Kennedy on teaching, writing, and sailing
Today’s interview is with Rick Kennedy, Professor of History at Point Loma Nazarene University, and the author of a number of books and articles on topics as wide-ranging as the history of logic, mathematics, architecture, astronomy, education, historiography, and Christian […]
The Author’s Corner with Adrian Chastain Weimer
Adrian Chastain Weimer is Professor of History at Providence College. This interview is based on her new book, A Constitutional Culture: New England and the Struggle Against Arbitrary Rule in the Restoration Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). JF: What […]
ROUNDTABLE: Natality: Toward a Philosophy of Birth
Jennifer Banks’ book opens pathways and unveils vistas
Evangelical roundup for May 1, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Do college educated evangelicals prefer DeSantis over Trump? Point Loma Nazarene University is the latest Christian college to deal with a controversy over LGBTQ issues. Evangelicals working with the climate lobby. Sometimes atheists and […]
“The Left is more likely…to hold men responsible for their own problems and advise them to purge themselves of their ‘toxic masculinity.'”
Over at Commonweal, Brendan Ruberry reviews Richard V. Reeves’s book, Of Boys and Men: Why the Modern Male is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do about It. Here is a taste: “…today, around the industrialized world, men seem […]
The Legacy of The Jesus Revolution
What has Chuck Smith’s and Lonnie Frisbee’s hippie revival wrought?
The Poisonwood Bible at 25
Revisiting the Barbara Kingsolver bestseller—in which a person becomes a parable
Ideas in progress: William Thomas Okie
What is the focus of your current book project? What are the big questions that you are investigating and the main stories that you hope to tell in this book? The book project is called Wayside: The Hidden Histories of […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 19, 2023 (9:30pm)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury President Kevin Brown. Live streaming will begin. He also addresses claims that Asbury is trying to end the revival. Here is the […]