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Farewell for now
The 2025 circus will be fascinating to watch, and this is my note to Current readers that I’ll now be at a different vantage point.
My reflections on homeschooling in Christianity Today
The modern life is much too compartmentalized. It isn’t good for us.
When evangelical leaders fail: Some thoughts from Augustine
Christianity Today news editor Daniel Silliman is trying to make sense of the recent spate of moral failures in evangelical leadership. Some good words here from Dan and Augustine: Today is not a day when I feel particularly optimistic about […]
Christian ministries go remote
The deck of Daniel Silliman’s Christianity Today piece reads: “Evangelical organizations including Wycliffe, CT, and Lifeway are giving up their buildings and developing new models for remote work.” Here is a taste: A lot of office workers are discovering that […]
My Christianity Today review of Rob Reiner’s new film on Christian nationalism
Reiner’s “God and Country” drops today. Christianity Today asked me to review it. Here is a taste of my review: Heave an egg out a Pullman window,” social critic H. L. Mencken famously said in 1925, “and you will hit […]
Current contributing editor Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt receives a 2024 Christianity Today book award
Congratulations to Current contributing editor Elissa Yukiko Weichbrodt! She received a Christianity Today “Award of Merit” in the “Culture and Arts” category for her book Redeeming Vision: A Christian Guide to Looking at and Learning from Art. Here are the […]
“Just a little bit of flattery”: Christianity Today and J. Edgar Hoover
Christianity Today news editor and historian Daniel Silliman reflects on his current employer’s relationship to FBI Director (1935-1972) J. Edgar Hoover. Silliman’s thoughts were triggered by his reading of Lerone Martin’s The Gospel of J. Edgar Hoover. Here is a […]
How are evangelicals responding to the John MacArthur spiritual abuse accusations?
In case you missed the news, Christianity Today is reporting on a pattern of spiritual abuse on John MacArthur’s Grace Community Church in Los Angeles. Here is Kate Shellnut: Last year, Hohn Cho concluded Grace Community Church had made a […]
Christianity Today announces its 2023 book awards
Here you go: Book of the Year: Uche Anizor, Overcoming Apathy: Gospel Hope for Those Who Struggle to Care Apologetics and Evangelism: Glen Scrivener, The Air We Breathe: How We All Came to Believe in Freedom, Kindness, Progress, and Equality […]
David French’s civic pluralism versus Al Mohler’s Christian nationalism
Last week, the Senate advanced the Respect for Marriage Act. The bill legalizes (“provides statutory authority” for) same-sex and interracial marriages. Here is a summary of the bill from Congress.Gov: Specifically, the bill repeals and replaces provisions that define, for […]
How do evangelicals understand “Christian nationalism?”
Daniel Silliman has some nice reporting on this at Christianity Today. A taste: Caleb Campbell didn’t know he needed the term Christian nationalism. He’d heard it, here and there, but it hadn’t really registered. It was at the edge of his […]
Christianity Today names Russell Moore Editor in Chief
More news from the world of evangelicalism. Here is Christianity Today CEO Timothy Dalrymple: What makes a person great in the world is not the possession of extraordinary talent but a fierce and persistent application of talent, guided by courage […]
Mark Galli responds to sexual harassment charges
We covered this last night. Here is Galli’s response to Christianity Today‘s reporting: By now you may have read about the turmoil at Christianity Today regarding charges of sexual harassment in recent years. I’m featured in a story as a […]
Former Christianity Today editor Mark Galli accused of sexual harassment
Daniel Silliman, a news editor at Christianity Today, broke this story this afternoon. According to Bob Smietana’s reporting at Religion News Service, Silliman’s reporting had the full blessing of the Christianity Today leadership. Here is a taste of Silliman’s piece: […]
Christianity Today announces 2022 book awards
We are familiar with Christianity Today book awards here at Current. Our editor, Eric Miller, won the award in the History/Biography category in 2011 for Hope in a Scattering Time: A Life of Christopher Lasch. Some good historians made the […]
Some early reaction to Russell Moore’s move to Christianity Today
Get up to speed here. Brian Zahnd being Brian Zahnd: Radical subjectivist Ed Stetzer? Not sure what this means. Sounds like some pretty intense SBC inside baseball: I will try to add some more throughout the day. Check back. UPDATE: […]
Russell Moore leaves his Southern Baptist post. Joins Christianity Today
This was bound to happen sooner or later. Russell Moore, the president of the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission, is leaving his post to head-up a new public theology program at Christianity Today. There are a lot […]