The dog caught the bus. Now what? The leaders of the prolife movement–especially the conservative evangelical wing of the movement–spent so much time, energy, and money chasing the Roe v. Wade bus that it failed to think deeply about what […]
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Evangelical roundup for July 28, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Evangelicals on the rise in the Dominican Republic. Michael Wear on abortion politics. Doug Koopman is the new director of the American Studies Program of the Council for Christian Colleges & Universities. Russell Moore […]
Evangelical roundup for July 21, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? No more baptisms in Lake Geneva, Switzerland. Do evangelical pastors still need seminary training? World Relief on why evangelicals must be proactive on climate change. Tim Keller offers a Third Way: Greg Laurie’s movie […]
When evangelical pastors radicalize
More on how Trumpism has found its way into evangelical churches. I have heard multiple stories similar to the ones Tess Owen tells in this piece at Vice News. Here is a taste: Pastor Ron Tucker took the stage one […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John Fea, “Trump Is Going Down and He Is Taking Evangelicals with Him“ Vincent Bacote, “Wide Awoke at Wheaton“ Adam Jortner, “Nostalgia, Wokeness, and Fraggle Rock“ John Fea, “An Open […]
Should We Be Impolite?
If incivility always carries a moral cost, we had best be sure it’s justified
Voter fraud, attempts to steal the election, Charlie Kirk & Liberty University, and the potential ousting of Rick Warren’s church. And it’s only 9:25am in Anaheim!
Yes, the Southern Baptists are meeting in Anaheim this week. Later today they will elect a new president. We don’t have the time or the staff to follow all the details, so I am relying heavily on other more competent […]
“Turns out the Roman Catholic Church has nothing on the Southern Baptists when it comes to covering up sexual misconduct”
Randall Balmer, a Dartmouth religion professor and one of the country’s most prominent religious observers, addresses the Southern Baptist sexual abuse report. Here is a taste of his piece at the Los-Angeles Times: In an origin story oft-repeated in SBC circles, […]
What Beto did
In case you missed it, yesterday Texas gubernatorial candidate (and U.S. Senate candidate and presidential candidate and former Congressman) Beto O’Rourke disrupted Texas governor Greg Abbott’s press conference on the school shooting in Ulvade: Watch: In addition to Abbott, Lieutenant […]
The roots of our school wars
Over at Politico, historian Joshua Zeitz traces the roots of our school battles to the 1925 Scopes Trial. Here is a taste: At first glance, today’s school wars seem like a cut and dried case of modernity versus tradition, secularism […]
On Doug Mastriano’s 2001 paper “The Civilian Putsch of 2018”
Here is Greg Jaffee of The Washington Post with some context: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin […]
The latest in the Grove City College wokeness saga
Not familiar with Grove City College’s successful attempt to crush “wokeness” and critical race theory? Get up to speed here. Here’s the latest: At a recently faculty-trustee luncheon, the Board of Trustees tried to clarify a few things. This is […]
The fight for the soul of Grove City College
A self-professed conservative Christian college has decided to turn its back on systemic racism and diversity. Here is Kathryn Post at Religion News Service: When Cedric Lewis came to Grove City College nine years ago, he was delighted to teach […]
More from Grove City College
Muckraker (in the best sense of the word, e.g. Upton Sinclair) Warren Throckmorton has exposed some anti-Christian tendencies in an economic theorist who is apparently a “saint” at Grove City College. For those who don’t know, Throckmorton teaches psychology at […]
Grove City College alumni back Jemar Tisby
If you are unfamiliar with what is going on Grove City College, get up to speed here. This petition is signed (so far) by 146 Grove City alums: We are writing to voice our concern in response to Grove City […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Nadya Williams, “From Grandpa Lenin with Love“ Jay Case, “Frederick Douglass and the Challenge of Seeing Clearly“ Daniel K. Williams, “A Pro-Life Strategy for the Blue States“ John Fea, “An […]
An anti-woke victory at Grove City College
Get up to speed here. The “special committee” of the Grove City Board of Trustees” has issued its report on “wokeness.” Read the entire report here. Some highlights: The report affirms Grove City College’s identity as Christian college that “pursues […]
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 […]
How the Right gets Gramsci wrong
Check out Alan Wald‘s longform review of Laura Marriss’s translation of Jean-Yves FrĂ©tignĂ©’s To Live Is to Resist: The Life of Antonio Gramsci. There is a lot in Wald’s piece, but I want to call your attention to this passage: […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Alan Godwin, “Running from the Chapel“ Nadya Williams, “Putin’s Heritage of Lethal Incompetence“ Felicia Wu Song, “The Unbearable Lightness of the First TikTok War“ Greg Williams: “DC DISPATCH: Poisoned by […]