Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Nadya Williams, “Putin’s Heritage of Lethal Incompetence“ John Fea, “Joe Biden’s Flip-Flop on Abortion“ Christopher Shannon, “Woke Wars and the Future of Public Life“ John Haas, “Avoid War“ Daniel K. […]
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Evangelical roundup for March 24, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? What is going on at Calvin University? Two former female employees at Christianity Today talk about the Mark Galli sexual harassment allegations. Dan Silliman, the Christianity Today reporter who broke the Mark Galli story, […]
“Does academic freedom protect professors espousing white supremacist ideas?”
Here is Michael BĂ©rubĂ©, and Jennifer Ruth at The New Republic: Does academic freedom protect professors espousing white supremacist ideas? The answer, for the past hundred-and-more years since the founding of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) in 1915, has […]
Putin and Ohio Republicans are rewriting history
Here is Bowling Green State University historian Andrew Shocket at Ohio Capital Journal: Americans are united in denouncing Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine, including how he has justified it with a warped view of Ukrainian history and has crushed Russian […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: John H. Haas, “Avoid War” Jay Case, “Coca-Cola and Authenticity: What’s Not to Like?” Amanda McCrina, “History Brought Us Here” Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt, “Celebrating the Humanity of Edmonia Lewis” Agnes […]
What the chair of the Grove City College Board of Trustees believes about diversity, inclusion, and equity
Some of you have been following the discussion of critical race theory and “wokeness” at Grove City College. If you haven’t, get up to speed here and here and here and here. Let’s go back to the February 16, 2022 […]
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 […]
Evangelical roundup for March 14, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Christians who enabled Putin. Evangelical worship pastor Sean Feucht does not appear interested in a fourth COVID-19 shot: God and Trumpism unite at Trump’s new site, Truth Social: A call for Russian Bonhoeffers. Eric […]
Religion News Service covers the Grove City College CRT debate
Here is a taste of Kathryn Post’s piece: Warren Throckmorton, a professor of psychology who signed the second faculty letter, told Religion News Service that some faculty are unsure how to respond to the board’s rejection of critical race theory […]
The latest in the Grove City College “woke” saga
We have covered this story here and here. Now a group of former students, students, and friends of the college have published a Facebook petition ‘regarding recent controversies over Critical Race Theory and conversations about race at the college.” It […]
The “Leftist Bros” who teach fellow leftists about conservativism
Some of us at Current are regular listeners of the “Know Your Enemy” podcast. Matthew Sitman and Sam Adler-Bell have a great “on-air” rapport, they generally treat their subject matter fairly, and have great guests as conversation partners. Now The […]
Beware of “insecure narcissists”: Jack Hibbs and Charlie Kirk on the “Global Reset”
Right-wing evangelical pundit Charlie Kirk recent joined pro-Trump, anti-mask pastor Jack Hibbs at Calvary Chapel-Chino Hills to talk about something they call “The Global Reset.” As I note below, this conversation is not only filled with half-truths and fearmongering, but […]
Who is Kim Reynolds
She is the governor of Iowa. Last night she gave the Republican response to Joe Biden’s State of the Union address. As Elaine Godfrey writes at The Atlantic, the GOP picked her to deliver the response to “show voters that […]
Grove City College update
We originally covered this story here. Colleen Flaherty gets us up to speed at Inside Higher Education. Grove City College’s Board of Trustees recently said that it had formed a committee to investigate allegations of “mission drift” on campus and […]
“‘Crazy’ has become a church-growth strategy”
Are you a pastor who wants your church to grow? There is a new church-growth formula out there. If you are a pro-Trump, anti-critical race theory, anti-mask, and anti-vaccine pastor your church will grow. It will not grow through evangelism, […]
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“ Jay Case, “Coca-Cola and Authenticity: What’s Not to Like?“ Jeremy Sabella, “Apocalypse and Revelation“ Greg Williams, “D.C. DISPATCH: “Christ is […]
What is going on at Grove City College?
Is Grove City College, a conservative Christian liberal arts college in western Pennsylvania, promoting critical race theory? I have no idea. The phrase “critical race theory” has become such a bogeyman in evangelical and conservative circles that it is impossible […]
What Florida history students may not learn if Gov. Ron DeSantis gets his way
Here is Gillian Brockell at The Washington Post: The Florida state legislature kicked off Black History Month by advancing bills that would allow parents to sue a school if any instruction caused students “discomfort, guilt or anguish.” The bills have […]
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, “‘Jesus is My Favorite Philosopher‘” John Fea, The President Lacks a “Sense of Urgency and Outrage” Christopher Shannon, […]
Woke Catholicisms
Pining for the ideological uniformity of the past does little to address the institutional needs of the present