No more wearing white, I guess. Around here, we’ve already had to turn on the heat. The interwebs stayed hot, though. Here is our weekly roundup of ILYBYGTH-themed stories:
Starving for Jesus: Wisconsin family kills one child, nearly kills another in Christian fast, at WSJ.
Christian college drops Nike over anthem protests, at CHE.
- Another, bigger one considers it, at USA Today.
- We have to ask: Is this knee-jerk conservative patriotism the rule or the exception at evangelical universities?
Gresham Machen and segregationism at the old Princeton Seminary, at FM.
Wowzers, the big story: The inside resistance in the White House, at NYT.
Meanwhile, Trump explains the “great job” he’s doing to Bob Woodward, at WaPo.
Nobody has ever done a better job than I’m doing as president. (12:52)
Senator McCain’s legacy as a school reformer, at T74.
Great Books as the solution to campus protests, at CHE.
Both reactionary pundits mocking campus speech codes and the social-justice warriors they love to hate are complicit in reproducing the kinds of inequality that tribalism feeds on.
Is education a “fundamental right?” Jill Lepore reviews Justin Driver in The New Yorker.
- Yes, but it is also so much more. Why definitions are key to school reform, here at ILYBYGTH.
Coming out to young-earth creationists, at BioLogos.
- What are radical creationists afraid of? It’s not actually evolution, but something else. At ILYBYGTH.
The politics of Christian crafts: Kristen Kobes Du Mez on “Hobby Lobby Evangelicalism.”