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About that Beth Allison Barr blurb
People are wondering how, in my recent piece in The Atlantic, I could be critical of Beth Allison Barr’s book The Making of Biblical Womanhood after I wrote a blurb endorsing it when it first appeared in print. That’s a […]
John Burger’s At the Foot of the Cross: Lessons from Ukraine
We’ve seen a lot of repetition of history these past two years.
Mitt Romney: Some Trump voters are “are out of touch with reality”
Earlier this week I received a query from a journalist who covers the United States for a conservative Protestant daily newspaper in the Netherlands affiliated with the Calvinist Reformed Political Party. (Follow the links to the paper and its party. […]
The Author’s Corner with Scott Kamen
Scott Kamen is Assistant Professor of History at the University of New Mexico, Valencia. This interview is based on his new book, From Union Halls to the Suburbs: Americans for Democratic Action and the Transformation of Postwar Liberalism (University of […]
Martin Luther King Jr.’s Christian apologetics
On this MLK Day, it is appropriate to consider Martin Luther King Jr.’s Christian apologetics–his reasons for believing in God even in the midst of adversity.
The Author’s Corner with Jennifer M. Black
Jennifer M. Black is Associate Professor and Program Director of History at Misericordia University. This interview is based on her new book, Branding Trust: Advertising and Trademarks in Nineteenth-Century America (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
How Lyotard Predicted the Decline of the Humanities
Dreams of emancipation need not die
Humanities, Minor
Mass literacy ≠mass humanism
The Border of Disaster
Democrats need an immigration policy. Now.
The Author’s Corner with Lindsay Schakenbach Regele
Lindsay Schakenbach Regele is Graduate Studies Director and Associate Professor of History at Miami University. This interview is based on her new book, Flowers, Guns, and Money: Joel Roberts Poinsett and the Paradoxes of American Patriotism (University of Chicago Press, […]
Reads of the year for living in modernity
What is the place of human beings–and especially religiously-convicted human beings–in “modernity”? Here is my list of reads of the year to answer this question.
Final Blessing of Unicorns for 2023
Welcome to the final Blessing of Unicorns for 2023!
What is happening at Philadelphia’s historic 10th Presbyterian Church?
I have never visited 10th Presbyterian Church. I’ve only had a couple of connections to the congregation. When we were working at The Stony Brook School, an evangelical boarding school on Long Island, 10th Presbyterian pastor James Montgomery Boice helped […]
The Author’s Corner with Stuart McKee
Stuart McKee is Associate Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco. This interview is based on his new book, Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
Perfectly Awful
The uncompromising message and compromised artistry of Killers of the Flower Moon
The Author’s Corner with Zachary Brodt
Zachary Brodt is the University Archivist and Records Manager for the University of Pittsburgh Library System. This interview is based on his new book, From the Steel City to the White City: Western Pennsylvania and the World’s Columbian Exposition (University of […]
The Case for Biden
Wisdom matters
The Author’s Corner with Aimee Loiselle
Aimee Loiselle is Assistant Professor of History at Central Connecticut State University. This interview is based on her new book, Beyond Norma Rae: How Puerto Rican and Southern White Women Fought for a Place in the American Working Class (University […]
The Author’s Corner with Emily Brooks
Emily Brooks is a Historian and Curriculum Writer at the New York Public Library’s Center for Educators and Schools. This interview is based on her new book, Gotham’s War within a War: Policing and the Birth of Law-and-Order Liberalism in World […]