Abram Van Engen

Opinion | The Christian Backlash Taking Hold

The Christian Backlash Taking Hold www.nytimes.com/2025/07/11/o...

The Lizard Theory of Higher Ed | ARC: Religion, Politics, Et Cetera Universities face an existential crisis. A huge portion of the American public no longer sees their point or purpose. As a result, when the government slashes NIH funding, or cancels $400 million of c...

A longer-term proposal for how to stop attacks on higher education from @vanengen.bsky.social

"We must explain the benefits of our work—not just for those who attend college, but for all."

arcmag.org/the-lizard-t...

Advice | How to Rescue Your Slumping Humanities Program An English department reversed its enrollment slide and reinvigorated graduate training, too.

The Chronicle of Higher Education featured the WashU English Department in a recent piece because of our rising major and overall growth. We're grateful, though we're not the only department with a rising major thankfully. Happy to join others in the good work. www.chronicle.com/article/how-...

Os Guinness, Eric Metaxas, and Their Dangerous Myths of American History The dangers of Christian nationalism for both Christianity and the nation mount with each rewriting of the American past.

I wrote this piece about Christian nationalism several years ago. Sadly, it seems newly relevant all over again.
www.patheos.com/blogs/anxiou...

This email debacle is the highlight of my day 😍

Translation and Transference Mary Sidney’s Psalm 52

Short piece I wrote about poetry and translation, and the power of Psalm 52 (about lying tyrants).

open.substack.com/pub/poetryfo...

Fun night tonight talking about how friendship shapes the work we do in the university. Not always a common topic, but so important.

I’m here. On BlueSky. Hi.