What is happening in Evangelical land Evangelical anti-abortion activity before Roe. The National Association of Evangelicals on the Buffalo shooting: The Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Buffalo: Roger Olson brings some autobiographical nuance to Jesus and John Wayne. More here. […]
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LONG FORM: Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly
Great transformations of moral perception make debtors of us all—if we have eyes to see
Evangelical roundup for April 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Hungarian evangelicals love Vicktor Orban. Kristin Kobes Du Mez and NAE president Walter Kim talk about masculinity and evangelicalism with religion writers: Indian evangelicals arrested during Easter services. Evangelicals love private jets: Do evangelicals […]
Puritan Passions
350 years on, Anne Bradstreet’s poems still speak
The Author’s Corner with Mark Noll
Mark Noll is retired Professor of History at Wheaton College and the University of Notre Dame. This interview is based on his new book, America’s Book: The Rise and Decline of a Bible Civilization, 1794-1911 (Oxford University Press, 2022). JF: What […]
Evangelical roundup for April 7, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Do evangelicals still care about missions? Whitworth University history professor Aaron Griffith on why evangelicals should care about criminal justice: New Hampshire evangelicals call their state “Satan’s headquarters.” I want a copy of this: […]
Four New York Times writers weigh-in on the slap heard round the world.
They are Lulu Garcia-Navarro, Roxane Gay, Charles Blow, and Wheaton College’s own Esau McCaulley. Here is a taste of McCaulley”s response: I think there are a lot of hurting people, who feel like they’re ignored, who are triggered by this […]
Eric Metaxas chides Tim Keller for reading too much (and other evidence of the scandal of the evangelical mind)
If you want to see Mark Noll’s Scandal of the Evangelical Mind at work, watch Eric Metaxas’s interview with Lucas Miles at the annual meeting of the National Religious Broadcasters. Lucas is the author of a book titled The Christian […]
How are evangelicals responding to the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Part 2
Yesterday we offered a “Bonus Roundup” on how American evangelicals are responding to the invasion. Today we have part two: Dinesh D’Souza, a favorite of conservative evangelicals and the former president of the evangelical The Kings College, is backing Putin: […]
The Enduring Mystery of Agatha Christie
Long Live Death on the Nile—and Agatha Christie
Evangelical roundup for February 10, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Thabiti Anywabwile is no longer an evangelical. This guy has a few things to say about it: Wayne Grudem is lecturing in a “Women of Momentum” series: Also this: How social justice and CRT […]
Evangelical roundup for February 3, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? A conservative website claims that the federal government used Ed Stetzer, Russell Moore, Tim Keller, Rick Warren, Relevant, and the Gospel Coalition to spread “Covid propaganda” to churches. (Just to be clear, to this […]
Culture Wars: Squirrel Edition
Tales from the frontline of interspecies conflict
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Jeremy Sabella, The Tower of Babel and The American Experiment John Fea, Stop Wasting Your Time Trying to Define Evangelicalism Adam Jortner, Have Mercy John Fea, Why Evangelicals Need More […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Jeremy Sabella, “The Tower of Babel and The American Experiment“ Adam Jortner, “Have Mercy John Fea, “Stop Wasting Your Time Trying to Define Evangelicalism“ Katherine Lucky, “The Streets of Silicon […]
Current announces its board of contributing editors
After nine months of publication, Current is happy to publish its full masthead, including the names of those who have joined us as contributing editors. They are: Vincent BacoteProfessor of Theology and Director of the Center for Applied Christian EthicsWheaton […]
Masthead
Commentary. Reflection. Judgment. CURRENT ceased publication on April 4, 2025 Executive Editor John FeaProfessor of HistoryMessiah University Senior Editor Jay GreenProfessor of HistoryCovenant College Editor Eric MillerProfessor of HistoryGeneva College Managing Editor Nadya WilliamsMother and WriterOhio Deputy Editor Robert Erle […]
The Many True Meanings of Christmas
Lay down your arms. It’s time to celebrate.
Christianity Today announces 2022 book awards
We are familiar with Christianity Today book awards here at Current. Our editor, Eric Miller, won the award in the History/Biography category in 2011 for Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch. Some good historians made the […]
Evangelical roundup for November 18, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Do evangelicals prioritize power or truth? I guess you need to draw the line somewhere ;-): “[Owen] Strachan stated that ‘I don’t believe in separate races … We’re one human race. That’s what I […]