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 […]
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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 […]
“Societal Collapse Is in the Air—Or It Smells Like It”
A history lesson for Timothée Chalamet
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
REVIEW: After Philosophy
Alasdair MacIntyre exposed the failings of the liberal tradition. Do we dare remember?
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: […]
The labor rights radical behind the 1963 March on Washington
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place 59 years ago this week (August 28, 1963). Shawn Gude ofJacobin interviews historian William P. Jones about A. Philip Randolph, the Black socialist who spoke at the 1963 event and […]
The Author’s Corner with Jesse Olsavsky
Jesse Olsavsky is Assistant Professor of History at Duke Kunshan University. This interview is based on his new book, The Most Absolute Abolition: Runaways, Vigilance Committees, and the Rise of Revolutionary Abolitionism, 1835–1861 (LSU Press, 2022). JF: What led you to […]
Albert Mohler’s “Christian world view” was on full display in his ugly piece on the legacy of Ronald Sider
Albert Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville, likes to talk about how he discerns current events through his “Christian world view.” Well, Mohler’s “Christian world view” was on full display yesterday in his reflection on […]
Byron Borger reviews In Praise of Good Bookstores
If you read this blog, you know Byron Borger. He and his wife Beth run the Hearts & Minds bookstore in Dallastown, Pennsylvania, the best Christian bookstore in the country. Over at Christianity Today, Borger reviews Jeff Deutsch’s book In […]
The Joe Biden Good-Time Action Adventure Hour!
Politicians ignoring ordinary citizens? Write a play instead!Â