Yesterday we kept you up to speed on the 2021 Road to Majority conference sponsored by Ralph Reed’s Faith and Freedom Coalition. If you want to get a feel for how Trump’s evangelical supporters are handling his loss and the […]
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Matthew Karp critiques the “stamped from the beginning” approach to history
Princeton historian Matthew Karp offers a stinging criticism of the “stamped from the beginning” view of American history. Here is a taste of his Harper’s piece “History as End: 1619, 1776, and the politics of the past.” Whatever birthday it […]
Stolen Valor and the American Persecution Complex
What do contemporary Christians living in America have to learn from Christians around the world experiencing actual persecution?
A Billy Graham Even Liberals Can Love
In the new PBS film, politics is the defining element in Graham’s life. Was it?
Religion and Politics: Which Way Does It Flow?
If recent research is right, politics and religion are even more tangled than we tend to believe
The Tampa Bay Times rejects “just the facts” history
History teaching begins with facts. But history teaching that stops with “just the facts” is not history teaching. Historians think about “what happened” in context. They think about facts in relations to other facts, leading them to tell complex stories […]
Revisiting The Soul of the American University
In the midst of commodification and conflict, the university pushes on—with or without its soul
Quick thoughts on the end of the Messiah University History Department
Yesterday I sat through what will probably be the last history department faculty meeting of my career. It was on ZOOM. Next Fall the history professors, five in all, will join three political science professors to form the Messiah University […]
Out of the Zoo: History and Mental Illness
Annie Thorn is senior history major from Kalamazoo, Michigan and our intern here at The Way of Improvement Leads Home. As part of her internship she is writing a weekly column titled “Out of the Zoo.” It focuses on life as a […]
Wiebe Boer will be the new president of Calvin University. He is a historian.
What can you do with a history major? Become the CEO of a renewal energy investment company in Nigeria and be the 11th president of Calvin University. Boer has a Ph.D in history from Yale where he studied West African […]
The Author’s Corner with Rose Miron
Rose Miron is Vice President of Research and Education at the Newberry Library. This interview is based on her new book, Indigenous Archival Activism: Mohican Interventions in Public History and Memory (University of Minnesota Press, 2024). JF: What led you to […]
Pivot Points: Chapter 22
Gratitude for a Life
Meaning & Membership
Associations are worth the effort
Pivot Points: Chapter 20
The Big Shock
The Words We Say Instead
A plea for Christians to say what we meanÂ
PREVIEW: Singing from the Heart
What happens when musicians set their sights on home?
Pivot Points: Chapter 15
Seeing the World and Enjoying *World*
The Strange Journey of The Country Under Heaven
The story behind the story
“I once believed university was a shared intellectual pursuit. That faith has been obliterated”
What should professors do about AI generated papers? When I returned to teaching from a sabbatical last year I noticed that the students in my general education history classes suddenly learned how to write. Were they using ChatGPT to write […]
Thinking about the impossible
Writer Jay Michaelson asks if Rice University religious studies scholar Jeffrey Kripal has gone mad, or normal?” Kripal’s recent book is How to Think Impossibly: About Souls, UFOs, Time, Belief, and Everything Else. Here is a taste of Michaelson’s review […]