Current is in the midst of its eighth week of publication. I hope you have found our daily features informative, educational, and entertaining. We are pleased with the kind of writers we are attracting to this little online magazine. Thus […]
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Episode 5: The Christian Right
In the 1980s and 1990s, conservative evangelical politics fused with the GOP. How did it happen? Episode 5: “The Christian Right” dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative history podcast. Here is a […]
Next week at Current
We hope you are enjoying Current. Thanks, as always, for all of the encouraging feedback! If you like what you read, or enjoy what you hear at our podcasts, please consider supporting our work at Patreon. Your support will help us cover start-up costs, […]
“You may never see those numbers again”
OK, I’ll admit it. Our “numbers” are a bit down here at the blog since Trump left office. We still get thousands of readers a day, but during the Trump era we often had tens of thousands of readers a […]
Next week at Current
We hope you are enjoying Current. Thanks, as always, for all of the encouraging feedback! If you like what you read, or enjoy what you hear at our podcasts, please consider supporting our work at Patreon. Your support will help us cover start-up costs, […]
The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast will be back later this month!
After a few months of hiatus, The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast will be back in a few weeks with new episodes. Stay tuned! In the meantime, get caught up with past episodes. Our last string of episodes featured: […]
Episode 3: “The Audacity to Hope”
Barack Obama’s pastor is known for three sermons. In this episode, we put them in historical context. Episode 3: “The Audacity to Hope” (our fourth episode) dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative […]
Current rolls into week five!
We hope you are enjoying Current. Thanks for all of the encouraging feedback! If you like what you read, or enjoy what you hear at our podcasts, please consider supporting our work at Patreon. Your support will help us cover […]
Episode 2 of “A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast is here!
Episode 2: “Obama Goes to Church” (our third episode) dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative history podcast. In this episode I talk about Obama’s first encounter with Jeremiah Wright and what the […]
Here is how you can support Current as we wrap-up week three:
Current is now in its third week of publication. I hope you are enjoying our daily pieces. We are pleased with how things are going so far and even more excited about some of the features coming in the next […]
The second episode of “A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast is here!
Episode 1: “The Religious Making of a President” (our second episode) dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative history podcast. In this episode I talk about the differences between my conversion experience […]
“A History of Evangelicals and Politics” podcast is here!
Our patrons-only podcast dropped last night. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above receive this brand new narrative history podcast. In order to encourage folks to sign-up, we have decided to drop the opening episode–Episode 0: Introduction–below. If […]
Some quick thoughts on the first week of CURRENT
This week we published ten essays as part of our launch of Current. I hope you enjoyed them. The most viewed post of the week was Tony Norman’s Born to be Reborn, a reflection on the new Bruce Springsteen-Barack Obama […]
Lasch-Quinn will lecture “On the Importance of a Philosophy of Life.”
It is not too late to catch Current contributor and Syracuse University historian Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn this afternoon via Zoom. Here is more about her 4:30pm (CT) lecture at Roosevelt University: The Montesquieu Forum for the Study of Civic Life welcomes […]
“A History of Evangelicals and Politics in America” podcast will drop Wednesday, April 14, 2021
As part of the rollout for Current, I will be hosting a weekly podcast on the history of evangelicals and politics in America. Our first series of episodes will focus on the Obama era. We recorded Episode 0: “Introduction” today […]
Current issues press release
This went out today: Introducing CURRENT, an online journal of commentary and opinion New Journal Provides Daily Reflection on Contemporary Culture, Politics and Ideas. Features Original Works from Influential Thinkers and Writers including Tony Norman, Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, Katherine Lucky, Susan McWilliams […]
Current is here!
Check us out on the left side of the home page. For first-time visitors, I will be blogging every day at The Way of Improvement Leads Home (you are reading it now), the blog where I have been holding forth […]