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...
What is American evangelicalism? In her new book The Evangelical Imagination, Karen Swallow Prior, one of the most careful observers of, and participants in, evangelical life, analyzes the literature, art, and popular culture that has surrounded the movement and unpacks some of...
The speakers include Elizabeth Conde-Fraizer, Kristin Kobes Du Mez, Carl Ellis Jr., Walter Kim, Russell Moore, Gavin Ortlund, Karen Swallow Prior, Love Sechrest, Mark Noll, Jay Augustine, Vince Bacote, Gayle Doornbos, Benjamin Espinoza, Malcolm Foley, Ernest Gray, Emily Hunter McGowin,...
The Christian Scholar’s Review (CSR) is “a medium for communication among Christians who have been called to an academic vocation. Its primary objective is the publication of peer-reviewed scholarship and research, within and across the disciplines, that advances the integration of...
Russians are hacking the U.S. government and Trump remains silent. Thousands of people died today from COVID-19 and Trump remains silent (except when he takes credit for the vaccine in a tweet about the stock market). Meanwhile, Trump continues to...
In September 2020, I wrote a piece at Religion News Service titled, “Reforming Liberty University in the post-Falwell era should begin with the Falkirk Center.” Earlier today, I pointed out that the Falkirk Center is now leading efforts to change...
Here is the tweet again, with Karen Swallow Prior’s response: We covered this here. Watch: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=unJY3CHjwVk&w=560&h=315] Metaxas says most people on Twitter are “not that smart” and thus did not understand what he was trying to accomplish with this...
Here is court evangelical and newly appointed Falkirk Fellow at Liberty University: Karen Swallow Prior, as some of you know, is an English professor at Liberty University, at least until she leaves for Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary this summer. Metaxas’s...
Sarah Pulliam Bailey’s recent story at The Washington Post adds to what I posted about earlier this week (here and here). Here are some new things we learn from her piece: Mohler’s son-in-law is a Trump appointee in the State Department....
Background here and here. Here is a taste of Richard Chumney’s piece at the Lynchburg News & Advance: Karen Swallow Prior, a longtime English professor at Liberty University and a high-profile voice in the evangelical movement, will leave the school next...
Karen Swallow Prior recently announced that she is leaving Liberty University for Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. Thus far I have heard nothing from university president Jerry Falwell Jr. about her departure. Granted, university presidents do not...
I am glad to see that schools like the college at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, North Carolina have research professors and I am happy that Karen Swallow Prior will be holding one of these positions beginning in...
I hate the term “right side” and “wrong side” of history. No historian should use these phrases. They are moral, not historical, phrases. When people use them they are usually saying more about their own politics or religion than the...
Liberty University English professor and author Karen Swallow Prior on the Kavanaugh nomination and the Blasey Ford accusations: “I don’t expect we will ever know the truth about what did or did not happen. But as an evangelical Christian, I...
Paige Patterson loyalists are looking for payback. Some big donors to Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary are threatening to withhold their donations unless the Patterson case is reopened. Not familiar with the Patterson case? Get up to speed with these posts....
A group of Southern Baptist women (937 and counting) have signed a letter to the Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary Board of Trustees urging the board to remove seminary president Paige Patterson from his post. As I said last week, Patterson’s...
Sarah McCammon, our favorite National Public Radio employee (see Episode 13), talks to court evangelical Johnnie Moore, Liberty University professor Karen Swallow Prior, and evangelical social activist Shane Claiborne. Here is a taste of their conversation: MCCAMMON: Karen Swallow Prior,...
Today I am proud of my Senator, Robert Casey Jr. I have long argued that a pro-life position on abortion should be embraced by any political party that cares about the weakest and most vulnerable human beings. (See my criticism...
Over at Religion and Politics, Ellen Duffer asks “Where Do Pro-Life Feminists Belong?” It’s a great piece. It reminds me a lot of Emma Green’s article at The Atlantic written a few days before the Women’s March on Washington. I must...
