Search Results for: critical race theory

“Does teaching America it’s racist make it less racist?”

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Here is a fascinating discussion between Jane Coaston, John McWhorter, and Michelle Goldberg. A taste: Jane Coaston: Critical race theory. It’s a concept that originated in academic circles in the mid-1970s, but one that only hit the mainstream in the […]

Evangelical roundup for May 10, 2021

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What is going on in Evangelicalland? Eric Metaxas was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last weekend and had a run-in with a Black Lives Matter protester. He also criticizes the people of Lancaster for wearing masks. Metaxas still believes that Donald Trump […]

Sunday nights odds and ends

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A few things online that caught my attention this week: George Scialabba reviews Louis Menand, The Free World: Art and Thoughts in the Cold War Should Breyer retire? Check marks and writing Slavery and early Boston The GOP is obsessed […]

Most popular posts of the last week

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Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Quick thoughts on the end of the Messiah University History Department Virtually every thing Jack Hibbs says in this video about Washington at […]

Evangelical roundup for May 6, 2021

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What is happening in Evangelicalland? Evangelical TikTok Pray for India Shane Claiborne on the death penalty: What did televangelists look like before they were famous? Nick Jonas actually transformed into Joel Osteen: A reviewer thinks Beth Barr did not go […]

Evangelical Roundup for April 19, 2021

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What is happening in Evangelicalland? Why are the people who operate in a culture that has a long history of individual and systemic racism always the people who can’t resist taking a shot at critical race theory? And why do […]

Most popular posts of the last week

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Here are the most popular posts of the last week at The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Trying to get a vaccine appointment? Just google “places where Trump won in a landslide.” Franklin Graham thinks evangelicals should get the vaccine. […]

Thinking about the impossible

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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 […]

The “Born to Run” conference

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Here is the Asbury Park Press: The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch has issued a call for papers and panel abstracts for an academic conference devoted to the “life, work […]

Election Day was 13 days ago. What are evangelicals saying?

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Steve Eng, the “advocacy director” of the National Association of Evangelicals, reflects on the presidential election: An NAE post-election statement encourages us to “pray for God’s guidance and blessing on those who have won, that they will be good stewards of the […]

Election Day was one week ago. What are evangelicals saying?

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Fiona Hamilton of The Times (UK) has talked to some Trump-supporting evangelicals in Georgia. Here is a taste: The convention had been awash with talk of divine intervention and miracles even before Trump told delegates that “I’m not supposed to […]

Where are the conservatives and pluralists in higher education?

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Steve Teles, a political scientist at The Johns Hopkins University, writes: “The university’s ideological narrowing has advanced so far that even liberal institutionalists–faculty who believe universities should be places of intellectual pluralism and adhere to the traditional academic norms of […]

The Harlem Renaissance librarians

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We don’t normally think about librarians when we talk about the revival of African-American culture in Harlem during the 1920s and 1930s. But as Jennifer Schuessler notes in a recent piece at The New York Times, scholars are starting to […]