Liz Charlotte Grant’s Christian Century piece on the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy begins this way: “On October 25, 1978, about 250 White men strode across the orange carpet of the Chicago Hyatt Regency O’Hare’s lobby with a ten-dollar theological […]
evangelical history
He carried a big wooden cross around the world and was influential in George W. Bush’s conversion. Arthur Blessitt has died.
Here is a taste of Daniel Silliman’s obituary at Christianity Today: People had a lot of questions when they saw a hippie minister with slightly shaggy hair hauling a 12-foot cross with a wheel across North America, South America, Europe, […]
The Author’s Corner with Jason S. Lantzer
Jason S. Lantzer is Assistant Director of the Butler University Honors Program. This interview is based on his new book, “Prohibition Is Here to Stay”: The Reverend Edward S. Shumaker and the Dry Crusade in America (University of Notre Dame […]
Evangelical blast from the past
Thanks Tim Terhune!
My piece today at The Atlantic
It is titled “Part of Me Will Always Be Grateful for James Dobson.” The subtitle is “Americans deserve a fuller accounting of evangelicalism’s role in our country’s life.” Regular readers of Current will recognize some of these ideas. Here is […]
“Our founding fathers understood the absolute necessity for this nation to elect moral and upright statesmen to lead the people.”
That was Jerry Falwell Sr. on January 8, 1999 in the midst of the Bill Clinton impeachment trial. Here is the quote in context: “Our founding fathers understood the absolute necessity for this nation to elect moral and upright statesmen […]
The Author’s Corner with Stuart McKee
Stuart McKee is Associate Professor of Design at the University of San Francisco. This interview is based on his new book, Indigenous Enlightenment: Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850 (University of Nebraska Press, 2023). JF: What led you to […]
Episode 121: “Reagan’s Evangelical Vision for America”
How did Ronald Reagan use the media to shape his evangelical vision for America, a vision rooted in political freedom, economic freedom, and religious freedom that is still with us today and continues to define the discourse of both of […]
“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 […]
When Billy Sunday came to town…
Grocers closed: So did “Ready-Pay” stores: Tea-rooms stayed open: Automobiles were needed: So were special trains: People climbed through roofs and windows: Lumber was sold: New bleachers were erected at fair grounds: Executions were witnessed: Ice cream was named: Labor […]