This essay is cross-posted from the Anxious Bench. When even the most conservative of American evangelicals started drinking alcohol, they lost their movement’s philosophical foundation for social justice. That’s an overly simplistic statement, but what I mean by that is […]
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An Australian theologian changes his mind about “woke”
Michael Bird is the Academic Dean of Ridley College in Melbourne. He is author or editor of over a dozen books. Recently, Bird wrote a piece at his Substack page titled “How I Changed My Mind on Woke.” I can’t […]
Shawn Fain’s Christian radicalism
Earlier this week I wondered why people were not talking and writing more about UAW president Shawn Fain’s Christian faith. Church historian Heath Carter has published the piece I was hoping for. Here is a taste of his Jacobin article […]
The Christian faith of UAW’s Shawn Fain
He carries a Bible and regularly invokes his faith as he leads the United Auto Workers in a historic strike against the country’s three largest automakers. For Fain, the strike is a “righteous cause.” This reminds of Eugene Debs’s claim […]
Every revival has its Old Lights and skeptics
If you’ve been following my ongoing curation of the Asbury University revival going on right now, you will see that there are a lot of skeptics. Anyone who knows something about the history of revivalism in the United States is […]
Staughton Lynd, 1929-2022
We brought Staughton Lynd’s death to your attention yesterday. We now have an obituary. Here is the New York Times: Staughton Lynd, a historian and lawyer who over a long and varied career organized schools for Black children in Mississippi, […]
More on Christian socialism
Last weekend we dropped Episode 103 of The Way of Improvement Leads Home Podcast with historian Vaneesa Cook, author of Spiritual Socialists: Religion and the American Left. I hope you enjoy this episode. If you are interested in learning more […]
There is not a “hard distinction” between the gospel and the pursuit of social justice
Mark Glanville of Regent College (Vancouver, B.C.) explains: The recent Guidepost Solutions report on sexual abuse in the Southern Baptist Convention revealed that August Boto, a key leader on the SBC Executive Committee, labeled the work of advocates on behalf of survivors […]
Biden responds to evangelical World Relief’s call to raise the refugee ceiling
Evangelicals are doing good work. Here is a taste of Jack Jenkins’s reporting at Religion News Service: President Joe Biden’s administration has reversed a decision to keep in place a historically low cap on refugee admissions left by Donald Trump, […]