A few things online that caught my attention this week: Why is an image of Wheaton College atop this piece on “failed conservative ” and “right-wing breakaway” colleges. The Anti-Racist movement as a “counterproductive religion‘ Ta-Nehisi Coates on Tony Judt […]
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The Blessed One
Tony Bennett has just released another studio album—at 95
David Barton spreads blatant falsehoods about the AP US History course, state history standards, and a bunch of other stuff.
David Barton, the Christian Right operative who talks about the past, recently spoke at Godspeak Calvary Chapel in Newbury Park, California. GOP representative Madison Cawthorn introduced Barton. The pastor of the church is Rob McCoy. Learn more about McCoy and […]
America’s Low-Wage Earners
Twenty years on, Nickel and Dimed still reveals our blindness—and its author’s as well
Evangelical roundup for September 20, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Critical race theory helped a Wheaton College professor draw closer to God. More on Trump followers embracing the “evangelical” label. Josh McDowell on critical race theory: McDowell apologized. Faith helped evangelicals get through the […]
Joe Biden: Please stop using the Bible in political speeches
After a busy first week of classes I am finally getting around to this story. In the past I have been very critical of politicians who use the Bible to advance political ends. In the last administration I was particularly […]
“Thoughts and Prayers”
Who needs them? Both progressives and conservatives, it turns out.
Love Your Neighbor. Get Vaccinated.
COVID-19 in the form of the so-called “Delta” variant is once again on the rise. Yesterday the Centers for Disease Control urged vaccinated people in high-transmission areas to start wearing masks again. Many of these high-transmission areas are places with […]
Evangelical roundup for July 19, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Despite new data, Robert Jeffress thinks evangelicalism in America is alive and well. His head is in the sand. But Jeffress is trying to get evangelicals vaccinated: True: On vaccines: Stop blaming evangelicals and […]
Still Evangelical
Thirty-nine years ago this month my life changed as the result of a simple act that took place while seated at the kitchen table in the northern New Jersey house where I grew up. With all the faith I could […]
Looking For Heroes
What does it take to stand upright in front of a statue?
Are you reading the Christian Scholars Review blog?
The Christian Scholar’s Review (CSR) is “a medium for communication among Christians who have been called to an academic vocation. Its primary objective is the publication of peer-reviewed scholarship and research, within and across the disciplines, that advances the integration of […]
Evangelical roundup for July 1, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? It looks like white evangelical support for Trump was actually higher in 2020 than 2016. An InterVarsity director leaves evangelicalism. But I am unsure what he is leaving apart from a label. Philosopher Jamie […]
Conservative columnist on systemic racism: “I didn’t create these systems. But I wish I had realized earlier that these systems had created me”
Here is Wheaton College graduate and former George W. Bush speechwriter Michael Gerson: Systems had been carefully created to ensure I went to an all-White church, in an all-White neighborhood, while attending an all-White Christian school and shopping in all-White […]
Florida senator Rick Scott introduces a resolution condemning critical race theory
More of the same. Indiana’s Mike Braun and Tennessee’s Marsha Blackburn are also on board. Here is the text of the resolution. Expressing the sense of the Senate that Critical Race Theory serves as a prejudicial ideological tool, rather than […]
Last week at Current
It was another good week at Current. What did we publish? We began the week on Tuesday with a piece from Randall Balmer, one of America’s keenest observers of the evangelical landscape. The Dartmouth religion professor did not go easy on […]
We Are Family
When it comes to evangelicalism, is separation the only option?
Evangelical roundup for May 27, 2021
What is going on in Evangelicalland? Are complementarians inherently patriarchal? Texas wants to require public schools to hang “In God We Trust” signs A book criticizing critical race theory is blowing-up in evangelical circles. The Southern Baptists are heading to […]
What is going on at the University of Northwestern-St. Paul?
I linked to this story in my May 24, 2021 Evangelical Roundup, but I thought it deserved a separate post. The University of Northwestern, a Christian college in St. Paul, Minnesota, appears to be making a good-faith effort to deal […]
NPR Insults the Prophet Muhammad?
National Public Radio has decided to go all-in on blasphemy.