On Friday I posted on Brooks’s New York Times essay “The Dissenters Trying to Save Evangelicalism From Itself.” Shortly after I read the piece I got three wisdom teeth removed, so I am finally getting around to giving it a […]
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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 Hannah Nation, Separation of Church and State, China Style Paul Luikart, Beach Body, Beat Body Timothy Larsen, Culture Wars: Squirrel […]
Evangelical roundup for January 31, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Former World Relief employee says the relief agency rescinded his job offer because he is in a same-sex marriage. We will see what happens here, but World Relief, as a religious organization, should have […]
What is going on with Tony Evans?
Last summer we called attention to Dallas-area megachurch pastor Tony Evans’s efforts at racial reconciliation. He called it “Kingdom Race Theology.” As I wrote then: “First, Evans clearly believes in systemic racism and the value of critical race theory. Second, […]
How the debate over CRT has led three states to alter their history standards
This is an important study: Education Week reviewed hundreds of standards and thousands of pages of public comment relating to the standards-writing processes in South Dakota, Louisiana, and New Mexico, all of which took up revisions in 2021, and interviewed […]
“Bebbington but”
Ryan Hoselton, a postdoctoral instructor at the University of Heidelberg, asks a good question about my feature today at Current: Perhaps “Bebbington but” is the best way to define evangelicalism. I still use Bebbington when I define the term in […]
David Blight on fighting the Trumpian Lost Cause
The Yale historian wants us to keep battling for democracy. Here is a taste of his piece at The Guardian: On 6 January 2021, an American mob, orchestrated by the most powerful man in the land, along with many congressional […]
High school student: The retaliation against CRT is a projection of parents’ biases and fears
Christiane Calixte, a junior at Berkeley Carroll School in Brooklyn, writes: “the retaliation against CRT shows that parents have no idea what students are learning — and that their protests are less about education and more about a projection of […]
Evangelical roundup for January 17, 2022
What is happening in Evangelical land? Eric Metaxas and Naomi Wolf talk about the “fear of COVID-19,” the “apartheid society” in New York City; how the “unnecessary” vaccine is attacking women’s reproductive health; and how the vaccine reflects a general […]
The latest Christian Right critique of the 1619 Project is full of problems. Let’s break it down.
Jerry Newcombe is a writer and local Florida radio host who comes out of the D. James Kennedy (Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church of Ft. Lauderdale) wing of conservative evangelicals. He is also the president of a Christian nationalist historical organization […]
No Virginia, Frederick Douglass did not debate Abraham Lincoln in the Lincoln-Douglas debates
A delegate of the General Assembly of Virginia wants better citizenship education for the students of the Commonwealth. Earlier this week Wren Williams proposed a bill (House Bill 781) to amend the Code of Virginia to strengthen “student citizenship skills.” […]
Historian Michael Kazin reviews conservative pundit Mark Levin’s book on Marxism
Michael Kazin is a history professor at Georgetown and former editor of Dissent. Some of you may recall his Current review of Anthea Butler’s White Evangelical Racism. Over at The Nation, Kazin reviews radio and Fox News personality Mark Levin’s […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Rob Vaughn, Christmas Transcendence John Fea, Why Evangelicalism Continues to Inspire Me with Hope Thomas Hibbs, Crime, Punishment, and Columbo Eric Miller, Three Weddings, One Question Jay Green, John Lennon […]
The 1877 Project?
It sure sounds like the Dunning School to me. Here is Eric Levitz at New York Magazine: In a recent column for The American Conservative, Helen Andrews argues that Reconstruction — that brief slice of the 19th century during which Black Southerners enjoyed extensive political […]
What Fruit Do Universities Bear?
Free inquiry without ethics endangers freedom
Why Evangelicalism Continues to Inspire Me with Hope
Is evangelical Christianity in trouble? It all depends on where you look.
Evangelical roundup for December 9, 2021
What is happening in Evangelical land? Mark Driscoll needs money “after a year of trials.” What is Rob Bell up to these days? Three more kidnapped missionaries in Haiti are released. On listening to evangelicals. Robert Jeffress, one of the […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Ellen Tucker, Good Teachers Don’t Preach Critical Race Theory Alan Jortner, I Can’t Believe McAuliffe’s Fundraising Emails Didn’t Win the Election Calvin Cummings, No Adults in the Room Daniel G. […]
David Blight: “Trust the teachers!”
The Yale historian and Pulitzer Prize-winner spun his recent tweets into a piece at The Atlantic. Here is a taste: The curriculum, however, is another matter. Trained teachers, curriculum directors, and school principals are responsible for organizing the content and […]
What is popular this week at Current?
Here are the most popular features of the week at Current: Vincent Bacote, “Wide Awoke at Wheaton” John Fea, “Canceling Jon Meacham” Nadya Williams, “Conspiracy or Hoax?” Daniel Hummel, “Remote Work, Redux” John Fea, “An Open Letter to American History Teachers: […]