Even Lamar can’t defeat the Super Bowl. Check out Daniel Hummel's piece "The Halftime Show that Had No Chance": currentpub.com/2025/02/18/t...

"Still, the sad reality is that while the mantra 'small is beautiful' resonates with so many, and Current did (and is still doing, until April 4th!) truly beautiful work, small things are much more fragile than bigger ones." currentpub.com/2025/02/15/g...

Nadya Williams blesses unicorns: currentpub.com/2025/02/14/b...

"I think you can get to a point where nihilism, if that’s the right word, is overwhelming, and the basic laws that society has set up–either religious or social laws–become meaningless. Things just get really dark." currentpub.com/2025/02/14/c...

Love's complexities endure--and love does, too. currentpub.com/2025/02/14/a...

MAGA evangelicals need to invent controversies so they have something to talk about. currentpub.com/2025/02/12/w...

When religious nationalism becomes a religion of nationalism. Check out Robert Tracy McKenzie's review of Richard Carwardine's *Righteous Strife: How Warring Religious Nationalists Forged Lincoln's Union*: currentpub.com/2025/02/12/r...

As we close up shop here a Current, we invite you to explore what we’ve done over the past four years. No more paywall! currentpub.com/2025/02/11/e...

My review of FLOW is out today in @currentpub.bsky.social. I loved this beautiful movie and am so glad I got to write about it. currentpub.com/2025/02/11/n...

I learned this news yesterday pm myself: @currentpub.bsky.social's final day of publication will be April 4th--the 4th anni of launch. Words cannot express what an honor this has been to work with kind mentors, cherished friends, and incredible writers and readers.

We will publish until April 4: currentpub.com/2025/02/11/o...

As someone recently wrote on my Facebook author’s page: “…the shocking thing about this era is how much [Trump’s] Christian followers have become more like him instead of them converting him.” currentpub.com/2025/02/10/m...

In ‘Flow,’ a world that’s almost ours helps us see our own. Check out Amanda McCrina's piece, "No Cat Is An Island": currentpub.com/2025/02/11/n...

"...this conceptualization has also been used to portray unwanted immigrant groups throughout American history as God’s enemies—as the plagued, idolatrous, sexually immoral, and criminal in the Book of Revelation." currentpub.com/2025/02/10/t...

The Christian Right could have traveled a different way in 1998. There were options--evangelical options--for thinking about political engagements in a different way. It chose not to take these roads: currentpub.com/2025/02/10/r...

Does listening to audio books count as “reading”? A roundup of views: currentpub.com/2025/02/10/d...

I am not denying climate change. I am skeptical that we know how to fix it. Check out Jim Cullen's piece "Denying Denialism": currentpub.com/2025/02/10/d...

“Blessed are those who are persecuted for righteousness’ sake, for they will get an executive order.” currentpub.com/2025/02/07/b...

Interview: Anne Perez on Understanding Zionism: currentpub.com/2025/02/07/i...

Chesterton’s ‘The Everlasting Man’ is one hundred years young. Check out Tim Larsen's reflection: currentpub.com/2025/02/07/t...

Over the next 22 weeks, CURRENT is grateful to serialize Marvin Olasky’s memoir, *Pivot Points: Adventures on the Road to Christian Contentment*. Thanks to P&R Publishing for its permission to serialize the book. You can read a chapter here every Thursday. currentpub.com/2025/02/06/p...

In her new novel, Jamie Quatro turns against facsimile for the sake of reality itself. Check out Paul Luikart's review of Quatro's *Two-Step Devil*: currentpub.com/2025/02/06/r...

Interview: Thomas S. Kidd on ‘Christian History: From the Reformation to the Present’ currentpub.com/2025/02/05/i...

We need a theology of fiction. LuElla D'Amico reviews Cassandra Nelson's *A Theology of Fiction*: currentpub.com/2025/02/05/r...

"The wars through which the Puritans subjugated New England’s Native peoples were inseparable from the spiritual warfare the Puritans were waging to win Native souls for Christ. English and Indians alike experienced colonialism as a religious conflict..." currentpub.com/2025/02/03/t...

"...the vast majority of American voters are regularly asked to make decisions about things that they do not understand. They are democratically enfranchised, but they are democratically incompetent." currentpub.com/2025/02/03/c...

Congratulations to Nadya Williams for her selection as Center for Christianity & Public Life "Public Life Fellowship." currentpub.com/2025/02/03/c...

"...grab another cup of coffee if you need it (I always do), and enjoy a week dedicated to one of the most incredible and revolutionary technologies to serve the good of humanity—books." currentpub.com/2025/02/03/c...

The demands of capital savaged hope. Check out Evan Kutzler's review of Robert K.D. Colby's *An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South*: currentpub.com/2025/02/03/r...

Nadya Williams blesses the unicorns: currentpub.com/2025/01/31/b...

When childhood moves at the speed of light, the family dinner is essential. Check out Colleen Vasconcellos's piece *Weekend Dad and Us Girls*: currentpub.com/2025/01/31/w...

"President Lincoln, moved during wartime to a new understanding of God’s role in history, harnessed the political power of devout antislavery Union loyalists who accepted him as the Almighty’s instrument for national redemption and mobilized to sustain him in office." currentpub.com/2025/01/30/t...

It can be a pleasure to learn from the Internet, but you best have acquired your basic knowledge from something that is not the Internet. A book is a good idea; five hundred (good) books is better. currentpub.com/2025/01/30/c...

TikTok ticks right along. Check out Christopher Shannon's piece, *State, Market, Speech*: currentpub.com/2025/01/30/s...

"The great strength of Todd’s account is his use of 'Beecherism' as the substance that unified the family during its reformist work for myriad causes." currentpub.com/2025/01/29/r...

Enjoyed doing this interview about my book American Laughter, American Fury with @currentpub.bsky.social currentpub.com/2025/01/28/t...

Similar to Abraham Lincoln, George Boutwell treated politics as a “civil religion” that called for humility, empathy, and a sense of common purpose to safeguard the gift of representative government bestowed by the nation’s founders. currentpub.com/2025/01/29/t...

"Their voices sound mechanical, robotic. They sound, in a word, possessed." currentpub.com/2025/01/29/c...

America’s ‘most influential family’ had troubles familiar to most of us today. Check out Peter Porsche's review of Obbie Tyler Todd's *The Beechers: America's Most Influential Family*: currentpub.com/2025/01/29/r...

"Michael Soffer’s eminently worthwhile study is an extended meditation on the ineradicability of moral responsibility." currentpub.com/2025/01/28/r...

GOP House members submit resolution condemning Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde’s National Prayer Service sermon currentpub.com/2025/01/28/g...

Evangelicals doing evangelical things: currentpub.com/2025/01/28/w...

"In America humor helped establish commoners as fully entitled members of the national community, but at the same time it also ensured that only white men got to feel fully comfortable in their own skin—including when masquerading in the skins of others." currentpub.com/2025/01/28/t...

"To the extent that the macro forces and abstract notions that sociologists focus on exist *at all*, it is only through people enacting them in local contexts." currentpub.com/2025/01/28/c...

A past failure of moral judgment sounds an alert today. Check out John Haas's review of Michael Soffer's *Our Nazi: An American Suburb's Encounter with Evil*: currentpub.com/2025/01/28/r...

"'It’s complicated.' We like to say it, but we don’t like to hear it. We want simple explanations. We want things 'boiled down.' And then once we hear an explanation, we hang onto it. We don’t want to reconsider it. Malcolm Gladwell plays into these tendencies..." currentpub.com/2025/01/27/i...

"If there is a lesson to be learned it is that this is a story about us; all of us. We must always live in the shadow of Auschwitz." currentpub.com/2025/01/27/t...

The job is to simplify, the risk is over-simplifying. Today at the Arena, Elizabeth Stice reflects on Malcolm Gladwell's *Revenge of the Tipping Point* currentpub.com/2025/01/27/i...