From Ron Sider and Richard Mouw: Part of this letter confuses me. For example, as a pro-life Christian I voted for Joe Biden knowing full well that he was going to oppose the Hyde Amendment. (Unlike Mouw and Sider I...
Here is Jonathan Chait at New York Magazine: One of the most predictable developments of the post-Trump era was that the small band of anti-Trump conservative intellectuals and Republican officials would quickly melt away. They had been repulsed by Donald...
I had a psychology professor in college who was a student of Larry Crabb. He studied with him at Grace Theological Seminary in Winona Lake, Indiana and brought Crabb’s unique style of Christian counseling to his classes. This professor made...
In 1994, evangelical historian Mark Noll famously wrote, “the scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.” Noll could not have anticipated the age of Trump, QAnon, stolen elections, the assault on science,...
Yesterday FBI Director Christopher Wray met with the Senate Judiciary Committee to answer questions about the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Dana Milbank has it covered at The Washington Post. A taste: [Wray] told the lawmakers what should...
Get up to speed here. Here is Chris Cuomo, host of the 9pm hour on CNN:...
John Pepper is the former CEO and chairman of Proctor & Gamble, former chairman of the Board of The Walt Disney Corp., and former CEO of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center. He was also a history major. Over at...
A classic from Bruce:...
What are some of Trump’s favorite evangelicals saying about today’s CPAC speech: Charlie Kirk, the founder of Liberty University’s Falkirk Center, loved it: Actually, I thought the speech was pretty low energy: Actually, he IS the former president, Jenna. He...
A few things online that caught my attention this week: Alabama has a long history of labor agitation The history of Black History Month Frederick Douglass and America Haiti’s religious culture and imperialism American cynicism History podcasting An 1895 cotton...
I admit that I loved watching Cuomo during the height of the pandemic back in Spring 2020. I thought he showed strong leadership at a time when it was desperately needed. But now Andrew Cuomo is in big trouble. Multiple...
This rising star in the Trump wing of the Republican Party has a dark side. Here is Michael Kranish at The Washington Post: Madison Cawthorn was a 21-year-old freshman at a conservative Christian college when he spoke at chapel, testifying...
I am teaching the American Revolution this semester. The other day, as we were reading and interpreting some primary documents, I asked the students to notice how the writers of these documents all seemed to use a similar political language....
Good thing they never finished that wall or else CPAC would be deprived of its Trump statue. I wonder if any of those “drug dealers, criminals [and] rapists” worked on the golden Trump. Here is The Guardian: Now the artist...
This is a really interesting conversation between historians Francis Bremer, Jeff Cooper, Richard Boles, and Doug Winiarski. The Congregational Library and the New England Hidden History program sponsored this discussion. Watch:...
Politico recently interviewed the Nebraska senator who is likely to be censored by his party today. Here are a few snippets of Burgess Everett’s article: Strong opinions came to Sasse easily during a 30-minute interview in his Capitol hideaway. Of...
He learned that in a time of crisis Americans need direct relief from their national government. Here is historian Suzanne Kahn at The Washington Post: The United States has surpassed an ignominious milestone: 500,000 deaths from covid-19. President Biden has...
Sometime prior to November 8, 2020, four members of the Fea household voted in the presidential election. We joined millions of Pennsylvanians who voted by mail. We are the “people” of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Our voice was heard. Missouri...
According to QAnon followers and other conspiracy theorists, Donald Trump will return as the 19th President of the United States on March 4, 2021. Yes, the 19th president. Here is Nicole Narea at VOX: Their rationale for this evidence-free belief...
Christian philosopher James K.A. Smith reflects autobiographically and vocationally on this Marilynne Robinson line. Here is a taste of his piece at The Christian Century: Needless to say, I’ve abandoned all hope that we can think our way out of...
