What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical politico Bob Vander Plaats: “Iowa is going to be wide open.” Good advice on how to send money to evangelical groups working in Maui. Billy Graham Evangelistic Association is an organization to avoid […]
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Evangelical roundup for August 3, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Karen Swallow Prior talks to Russell Moore about The Evangelical Imagination. The founder of a British Pentecostal credit union has died. Is The King’s College actually closing? More here. Oral Roberts University signs its […]
Jack Hibbs is still talking about American history. And it’s getting worse.
Last week I called your attention to megachurch pastor Jack Hibbs’s atrocious handling of the history of the Continental Army at Valley Forge. Now he is back with more. Watch: OK, let’s break it down: 1:10ff: Hibbs says, with no […]
Evangelical roundup for July 13, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical presidental candidates are coming to Iowa. Pentecostals A veteran United Methodist pastor on the state of evangelical Christianity. Evangelical women who support the mothers of LGBTQ kids. An Alabama megachurch opens a “pastoral […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog: Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Arena blog:
Sunday night odds and ends
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Do professors have “tech paranoia?“ The end of Fort Lee. A Protestant cemetery in Rome. The extremism, aggression, and lack of restraint in MAGA world are spreading. The death of […]
Evangelical roundup for March 2, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals around the world are praying for Ukraine. Evangelicals and rumspringa. Russian evangelicals and the war in Ukraine. Why Tim Keller avoids the culture wars. How should evangelicals engage Haiti? The Asbury Revival and […]
Evangelical roundup for February 23, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical Land? For those interested in the Asbury Revival, we are covering it extensively here. Russell Moore talks to Yahoo News reporter Jon Ward about the latter’s new book. The New York Times on the Southern Baptist […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 20, 2023 at 11:58AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Asbury University president Kevin Brown announces the new schedule change: Asbury University’s director of communication: The local NBC affiliate in Lexington, Kentucky published […]
What is going on at Marymount University?
Marymount, a Catholic university in Arlington, Virginia, is eliminating degrees in theology and religious studies, philosophy, mathematics, art, history, sociology, English, economics, secondary education, and M.A. programs in English and the humanities. Ouch. Marymount University should now be considered a […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 19, 2023 (4:00pm)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. The latest: Former Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee on Facebook: Here’s a story that’s getting little attention from the mainstream media, […]
The First Twitter Revival?
The Asbury Revival is spreading in the same way the First Great Awakening did
Asbury revival roundup: February 16 at 12:39AM
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Insiders tell me that they heard from a student who did not recognize anyone in Hughes Auditorium tonight. What happens when the dust […]
Asbury University revival roundup: February 14, 2023 (7:45pm)
Read all of these posts , including the original post (covering Day 1 to Day 3 of the revival), here. Some students are concerned about their safety. Today an alum with strong connections to Asbury wrote to me: “Our students are not coming […]
REVIEW: What Went Wrong with American Motherhood
If you can’t “have it all,” what can you have?
Evangelical roundup for January 9, 2023
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelical publishing in Romania. Evangelism on CNN. Evangelicals prefer praying over Bible reading. The highest paid ministry executives include J.C. Watts, Hal Lindsey, Matthew Crouch, Franklin Graham, Charles Stanley, Gordon Robertson, Kelly Shackelford, Michael […]
More responses to the death of Michael Gerson
I commented on the death of the former Bush speechwriter and Washington Post columnist here. We also linked to the PBS Newshour tribute. A few more responses: Daniel Silliman reporting at Christianity Today: He gave Bush’s speeches about compassionate conservatism […]
Are you going to the Harrisburg Book Fair?
The folks at the Midtown Scholar have put together a great event. Learn more here. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 19TH 10 AM-6 PM — OUTDOOR TENT SALE 20,000 used books priced at $1, $2, and $3. Across from the store at 3rd […]
Remembering Rich Mullins
Back in 1988 I won a college talent show with my roommates singing Rich Mullins‘s “Screen Door.” We dedicated our performance to all the non-music/vocal majors at our small Christian college. We were a bunch of jocks who thought we […]
LONG FORM: A Wrinkle in Journalism History
The recently resigned editor-in-chief of World has a story to tell—and a warning to offer