A holiday week didn’t slow down the news. Cussing from the Oval Office, aspirations from Oprah’s couch…it was a weird week. Here are some of the top ILYBYGTH-related stories:
President Oprah?
- Rod Dreher wonders about her religious credentials, at AC.
- Paul Waldman at WaPo: Though it’s harder to say this post-Trump, she’s not qualified.
- Don’t forget—the idea has been kicking around for a while, at Politico.
- How Oprah brought together the left and the right, right here at ILYBYGTH.
Why do so many white evangelicals love Trump? Darren Guerra says it’s only “Jacksonian Evangelicals,” at First Things.
Want to stop school segregation? Stop attacking charter schools, says Emily Langhorne at USNWR.
Liberalism is over, by Patrick Deneen at The Spectator.
San Diego State: Lecturer took anti-white attitudes too far, at CHE.
Museum of the Bible: A “safe space for Christian nationalists,” by Katherine Stewart at NYT.
Leadership shake-up at Moody Bible Institute, at CT.
- How does this fit into the history of evangelical higher ed? The background at ILYBYGTH.
More Trump/evangelical crack-up. How did evangelicals respond to Trump’s “S***hole” comments?
- Warren Throckmorton’s round-up.
- Sarah Pulliam Bailey talks with both sides at WaPo.
- John Fea—is it crude language or crude racism that offends evangelicals?
Big-time college sports—the new Jim Crow. So says Victoria Jackson at LA Times.