Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A visitor from Northern Ohio on FB: We are from Northern Ohio. On Thursday we heard about “Revival at Asbury” It’s been going […]
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Asbury University revival roundup: February 13, 2023 at 6:00pm
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. A megachurch pastor from Minnesota is on his way to Wilmore: 100 hours and counting… Last Wednesday morning at 10am, chapel was held Asbury University in Kentucky. […]
Are the humanities making a comeback?
Here is a taste of Jennifer Kingson’s Axios piece, “STEM who? The humanities mount a comeback: Driving the news: When the University of California, Berkeley, reported an uptick in humanities majors this academic year, there was elation — and shock — at the […]
REVIEW: Destination, Berlin
A new biography of Hilma af Klint forces a question: What is the purpose of art?
What, Then, Does Calvin University Mean?*
By restoring communal transparency amid complex cultural shifts, Calvin offers an example to follow
The World on Sand
To see our global moment, we need look no further than the Qatari pitch
Revisiting the Harper’s letter on justice and open debate
I reread this today. It was published July 7, 2020 in Harper’s: Our cultural institutions are facing a moment of trial. Powerful protests for racial and social justice are leading to overdue demands for police reform, along with wider calls […]
Court evangelical James Robison: Trump acted “like a little elementary schoolchild”
The Washington Post is covering a speech by the seventy-nine-year-old James Robison at the November 16 meeting of the National Association of Christian Lawmakers. Read the Post piece here. According to its website, the National Association of Christian Lawmakers (NACL) […]
What is happening at Bob Jones University?
According to reporter Steve Rabey, the Bob Jones University may be facing an old school fundamentalist revolt. The board of the university may remove president Steve Pettit for allowing the wrong kind of worship music in chapel, letting female athletes […]
Personal Blows from All Angles
The wellbeing of young families is under threat
Eric Foner on C. Vann Woodward
Over at London Review of Books, Columbia University Eric Foner reviews James Cobb’s new biography of C. Vann Woodward. It is a fascinating review. Here is a taste: As he approached retirement, Woodward entered what one former student called his […]
REVIEW: Pilgrims Who Did More than Survive in A Strange Land
Centuries in, the tension between Catholic ideals and the American experience remains taut and troubled
Evangelical roundup for August 22, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Anabaptist World remembers Ron Sider. Greg Williams reviews Katelyn Beaty, Celebrities for Jesus. A celebrity for Jesus endorses Celebrities for Jesus: Beth Moore, the “queen of evangelicalism“ 31 North Carolina United Methodist congregations want […]
Seeing Bathsheba
There’s more art history than you realize in your old children’s Bibles
America’s Molech Moment
How much will we sacrifice for the illusion of control?
Dinesh D’Souza, a Christian apologist, calls Bill Barr an overweight, immobile, “Fatso.”
Dinesh D’Souza is the former president of a Christian College and the author of What is So Great About Christianity. He is also a financial huckster who needed a Trump pardon. His version of “Christian” politics was on full display […]
A conservative academic changes his mind about safe spaces
Here is Jon Shields of Claremont-McKenna College: Like other conservative professors who are advocates of free speech on campus, I once opposed efforts to create a classroom climate in which students are protected from speech they find emotionally upsetting, ranging […]
Evangelical roundup for March 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? A Southern Baptist college struggles to keep the doors open after what appears to be financial mismanagement. Texas evangelical women are deconstructing. Former Liberty University Standing for Freedom Center (Falkirk Center) fellow and Trump […]
A University of Virginia student on the lack of intellectual diversity in American higher education
Emma Camp is just one voice at one school–the University of Virginia. I am sure campus progressives–students and especially faculty members–will dismiss her recent New York Times op-ed. When this post hits my Facebook page, I imagine a few academics […]
What can we learn from the people of Ukraine?
Chris Stirewalt asks this question in a recent piece at The Dispatch titled “Ukrainians Hold a Mirror to America’s Egotistical Anxieties.” Here is a taste: It is the natural conceit of every generation in every great power that its own […]