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Goodbye Nashville (for now)
I’ve spent a little over a month in Nashville in 2024. In mid-January I was in the Music City during a snowstorm that paralyzed the city. I managed to get a little research done on my current book project during […]
When H. G. Wells Found God
A forgotten spiritual conversion
Call for Papers: Annual Meeting of the American Society of Church History
We at Current are thrilled that one of our contributing editors, Wheaton College’s Timothy Larsen, is President-Elect of the American Society of Church History. As part of his responsibilities, Tim is the conference co-chair for the 2025 meeting of the […]
Evangelical roundup for February 5, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land Stop equating evangelical Christianity with whiteness More on the Quaker evangelicals serving migrants in Denver. Joel Belz, RIP. John Inazu interviews Michael Wear on spiritual formation and politics. The National Association of Evangelicals is […]
REVIEW: Whose Kingdom, Power, and Glory?
A former GOP insider finds himself nodding along with Tim Alberta’s damning portrait of the Christian Right
Evangelical roundup for January 25, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Christianity Today on the New Hampshire primary. Are young evangelicals “drifting” from Israel? Should we really expect evangelicals to come out looking good in this promotional event for Rob Reiner’s new film? Greek evangelicals […]
PREVIEW: C. S. Lewis and American Catholics
Two Catholic critics numbered among Lewis’s most enthusiastic American readers
Evangelical roundup for January 15, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? Trump’s legal problems are galvanizing evangelicals in Iowa. Thomas Kidd asks, “How ‘Evangelical’ are Iowa’s evangelicals? Jim Harbaugh: “Purpose-driven coach”: Iowa evangelical pastors back candidates. Shane Claiborne on Texas Governor Gregg Abbott and immigration: […]
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.
Evangelical roundup for January 11, 2024
What is happening in Evangelical land? The “new” Trump evangelical voters. Tim Alberta on Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel AME: Is Donald Trump a “man of faith? The National Association of Evangelicals is sharing the dream: Lecrae’s “Deconstruction“ Milligan University […]
Professor Pope
Joseph Ratzinger, always a scholar, transcended academe
I Believe in Christmas Angels
Celebrating the second greatest Christmas film ever made
I Am of Trump
Perhaps the former president really is a unifier
REVIEW: The Deformation and Reformation of the Evangelical Imagination
Who are evangelicalism’s architects? Bunyan, Dickens, Moody and more
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 […]
Current contributing editor Vince Bacote asks, “how many sermons are people hearing” about “national idolatry?”
In his chapter on Wheaton College in his book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, journalist Tim Alberta spoke with Wheaton theologian and Current contributing editor Vincent Bacote about evangelicalism, politics, and […]
Evangelical roundup for November 30, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Cal Thomas on Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, The Power, And the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism. Wheaton College is celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Chicago Declaration of Evangelical Social […]
The Evangelical Theological Society elects its first woman president
Her name is Karen Jobes and she is emeritus professor of New Testament and exegesis at Wheaton College. Here is Stefani McDade at Christianity Today: The Evangelical Theological Society (ETS) has instated its first female president in 75 years. Karen […]
A Blessing of Unicorns: a weekly roundup
What is a unicorn? It is my four-year-old daughter’s favorite animal, the one most likely to adorn her clothing these days. And the availability of unicorn-printed dresses, pants, socks, sweaters, and more all around suggests that this is not just […]