Christopher J. Lane is Associate Professor of History at Christendom College (Front Royal, VA) and the author of Callings and Consequences: The Making of Catholic Vocational Cultural in Early Modern France. As you get ready to begin another academic year, […]
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The future of evangelical scholars (and their scholarship too)
A year ago, a welcome second edition appeared of that most articulate of jeremiads (as it has been frequently dubbed) about the state of the evangelical mind and (related) evangelical scholarship: Mark Noll’s The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind. The […]
Evangelical roundup for July 31, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Tish Harrison Warren talks to Russell Moore about the state of American evangelicalism. Why are evangelicals leaving the faith? Arthur Gay, RIP Justin Giboney on the Florida African American history standards: Christianity Today tackles […]
What I am reading: Brian Scoles
Summer is the season for reading, whether re-reading old favorites or finding new ones—on your porch, in a cabin in the woods (bears optional), or at the playground or the beach. Because there have been so many wonderful essays on […]
The Author’s Corner with Zhongping Chen
Zhongping Chen is Professor of History at the University of Victoria. This interview is based on his new book, Transpacific Reform and Revolution: The Chinese in North America, 1898-1918 (Stanford University Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write Transpacific […]
The Author’s Corner with Mark Erlich
Mark Erlich is the Wertheim Fellow at The Center for Labor and a Just Economy at Harvard Law School and the retired Executive Secretary Treasurer of the New England Regional Council of Carpenters. This interview is based on his new […]
REVIEW: Progressives, Old and New
The divide between them is wider than you might suspect
Jack Hibbs: “If we were writing the Bible today, George Washington would be included”
In this video, podcast the pastor of the Calvary Church-Chino Hill (CA) reveals just how the Christian Right manipulates the past to promote its political agenda. I can’t tell whether these pastors are just ignorant or they are deliberately lying. […]
The Author’s Corner with Jan Wim Buisman
Jan Wim Buisman is a retired Lecturer on the History of Christianity, now a Guest Researcher at the Leiden University Centre for the Study of Religion (LUCSoR). This interview is based on his new book, Lightning in the Age of […]
REVIEW: Bernie, Deneen, and a Left-Conservative Solution
What does our moment require? An aristocratic revolution? Or a democratic reformation?
The Author’s Corner with Farley Grubb
Farley Grubb is Professor of Economics at the University of Delaware and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). This interview is based on his new book, The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution Was Financed by […]
REVIEW: The Regimes They Are A-Changin
Or are they?
Oh the Places We Went: Italia
If we have the choice, why not make things beautiful?
The Author’s Corner with Janet Farrell Brodie
Janet Farrell Brodie is Professor Emerita of History at Claremont Graduate University. This interview is based on her new book, The First Atomic Bomb: The Trinity Site in New Mexico (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to write The […]
Commonplace Book #272
I love my students–I surely do. But there is no way I would want to be one of them, or part of what’s now being called “Generation Z.” They’re stepping into the arena grossly underequipped to fight: no sword, no […]
What is popular this week at Current?
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: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
Liberty University spokesperson invokes Stalin, Mao, and Hitler on “education”: “We have to get back to that for conservative values”
I am not sure Ryan Helfenbein, the director of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center, really meant what he said in an interview on the pro-Trump Right Side Broadcasting Network this weekend, but it sure sounded like he was calling […]
Joe Biden is amassing an electable resumĂ© “without making a big show of it”
Here is a taste of Michael Tomasky’s New Republic piece “Democrats, Wake the Hell Up!”: Nobody seems to have noticed this, but over the course of the spring, the country’s four leading freight rail carriers agreed to grant the vast majority of […]
Evangelical roundup for June 26, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? We spent the weekend covering the Christian Right “Road to Majority” conference. Read our posts here. This weekend The Way of Improvement Leads Home podcast dropped Episode 113. Historian Larry Eskridge joins us to […]
The Mirage of the 1950s
An anxious, heartbreaking decade looks better at the movies