In which Marvin Olasky poses a question to Current readers.
Tim Alberta
God and the political butterfly effect
How might we think about God and political history?
Explaining the strange attraction
Why have so many evangelicals become determined supporters of Donald Trump, despite his past adulteries and continued narcissism?
Crazy: a church growth strategy?
What to ask Tim Alberta a question about his book? Marvin Olasky invites input before tomorrow’s interview!
Trouble in paradise?
Here is Atlantic writer Tim Alberta on X: More context at The New Republic and here.
The Trump campaign’s worst nightmare
The GOP played its hand in Milwaukee. The entire Republican National Convention was designed to attack Joe Biden. The GOP has chosen its vice-presidential candidate. But with Biden out of the race, the Democratic Party now has the opportunity to […]
The Christian nationalist agenda in four minutes and 11 points
Last night CSPAN aired my conversation with Tim Alberta, author of The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory. If you don’t have time to watch the entire interview, or read Alberta’s book (I hope you do both, but it’s the […]
Current contributing editor Vince Bacote asks, “how many sermons are people hearing” about “national idolatry?”
In his chapter on Wheaton College in his book The Kingdom, The Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism, journalist Tim Alberta spoke with Wheaton theologian and Current contributing editor Vincent Bacote about evangelicalism, politics, and […]
Robert Jeffress has a Trump “shrine” in his office at First Baptist Church-Dallas.
I am finishing-up Tim Alberta’s book The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism in preparation for a conversation I will be taping with him tomorrow on CSPAN’s Book TV. I am sure I […]
What happens to the longsuffering Detroit Lions fan if the team starts winning?
I am not a Detroit Lions fan, but I have a future son-in-law who lives and dies with the team. Over the last couple of years I have watched him as the Lions lose yet another game on a last-second […]
Donald Trump and Robert Jeffress are back together again in Waco.
Robert Jeffress, the Trump court evangelical who says he is not yet ready to endorse a candidate for president in 2024, sure looked like he was back in the tank for Trump today in Waco. I cannot seem to embed […]