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Who auditioned for <em>A League of Their Own</em>?
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Republicans are not the only people getting indicted
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Can they impeach Joe Biden for being a “sex symbol”?
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Yascha Mounk on identity politics
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Tim Scott to autoworkers: “You strike, you’re fired”
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What is popular this week at <em>Current</em>?
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Song of the day
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NT Wright on the difference between “hope” and “optimism”
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“The only cause that really matters to most Republicans now is Trump himself.”
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Boston University Center for Antiracist Research has a lot of money, but virtually nothing to show for it.
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Jerry Falwell Jr. knows where all the bodies are buried at Liberty University
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Evangelical roundup for September 21, 2023
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What is going on at Hesston College?
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SUNY-Potsdam puts 14 degree programs on the chopping block. Mostly liberal arts.
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More evangelicals criticize Trump on abortion
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Four myths about working with a university press
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What did Richard Nixon write in the margins of his books?
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“You’re nobody until somebody hates you”
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The Author’s Corner with Lauren Lassabe Shepherd
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Prolifers are outraged about Trump’s abortion comments on “Meet the Press”
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The Author’s Corner with Michael McCulloch
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Will evangelicals turn on Trump after his “Meet the Press” abortion comments?
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A Prayer before Study
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The Author’s Corner with Peter Thompson
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Evangelical roundup for September 18, 2023
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Fact-checking Trump on “Meet the Press”
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Sunday night odds and ends
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Os Guinness keeps pushing his faulty American Revolution vs. French Revolution thesis
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Messianic rabbi Jonathan Cahn at Family Research Council event: “We are at war.”
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When it comes to the MAGA media infrastructure, Lauren Boebert can do no wrong.
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Environmentalism as the next pro-life movement?
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Happiness guru Arthur Brooks is writing books with Oprah
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Steven Mintz on “the left”
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Lauren Boebert apologizes
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What’s going on at Charlie Kirk’s MAGA pastorfest?
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The National Book Award announces its longlist of finalists
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Romney announces he will not run in 2024. What does this mean for Senate centrists?
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Did God “call” Lauren Boebert to this?
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When it comes to transgender athletes in women’s sports, don’t mess with Oberlin College
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The Author’s Corner with Melissa Blair
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What is popular this week at <em>Current</em>?
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Wheaton College study on race: “We cannot be healed and cannot be reconciled unless and until we repent”
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Are liberals ignoring the value of two-parent families?
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Eric Metaxas prepares pastors for a holy war
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Evangelical roundup for September 14, 2023
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The real meaning of Kevin McCarthy’s impeachment inquiry against Biden
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The Author’s Corner with Joseph Beilein Jr.
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“Anything that wasn’t stale tea party table talk was permitted”
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Bayard Rustin and the politics of class
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On becoming a perpetual student
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Ross Douthat: A Christian conservative who lives among liberals and writes for them
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White supremacists converge on Eastern Nazarene College
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Evangelical roundup for September 11, 2023
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Song of the Day
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Sunday night odds and ends
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Christian artist Mylon Lefevre has died
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Too old to be president?
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Song of the day
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Major foundations invest in local journalism
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The Heritage Foundation is leading $22 million project that includes the promotion of Christian nationalism
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Andrew Sullivan calls for Joe Biden to step aside
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It’s all Jill Biden’s fault
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If president, Vivek Ramaswamy would deport American citizens
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New Iowa State University poll shows Trump with a commanding lead in Iowa
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Christian Trumpism in South Dakota
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Nancy Pelosi will seek reelection to Congress in 2024
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Eboo Patel: “It’s time to overturn the Robin DiAngelo and Ibram X. Kendi model” of “power and privilege”
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What is popular this week at <em>Current</em>?
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The Author’s Corner with Kathryn Cramer Brownell
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Evangelical roundup for September 7, 2023
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Springsteen postpones all his September shows
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The praying coach resigns. He’s going to stick with the right-wing media tours.
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Federalist Society and Trump-appointed judge puts Proud Boys chairman away for 22 years.
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“…this was a show with a theme, and that theme was mortality”
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What happens to the longsuffering Detroit Lions fan if the team starts winning?
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Jack Hibbs once again spreads falsehoods to his congregation. This time it’s about the Maui wildfires.
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Eric Metaxas and John Zmirak on why Mike Pence is not a good Christian
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Is it time to make major changes to the U.S. Constitution?
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A pro-life conservative and a pro-choice liberal find common ground on a post-<em>Dobbs</em> family policy
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College is not a job
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Did we get a glimpse of Biden’s 2024 stump speech today?
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Socialists and social conservatives of the world unite?
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At Asbury University, revivals are good for business
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Are American conservatives more Catholic than the Pope?
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Alone at home plate with the winning run
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Billy Sunday on the working man, 1917
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Evangelical roundup for September 4, 2023
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Remembering Jim Abbott’s no-hitter
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Sunday night odds and ends
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Labor Day weekend in Santa Ana, California churches, 1920
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Joe Manchin is 13 points behind Jim Justice in potential 2024 West Virginia U.S. Senate race
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Cornel West is at 2% in a new <em>Wall Street Journal</em> poll
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Historian Drew Gilpin Faust: “Education asks you to change”
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Vivek Ramawsamy: “Ignorant”
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Stanford and Cal in the ACC? It “all feels wrong.”
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