John Fea
As Trump hawks Bible, debate over ‘Christian America’ spreads outside church
By Bob Smietana — April 10, 2024
(RNS) — During the heyday of American churchgoing, some presidents sought to use religion to unite the country. In the age of Trump, it is one more thing to fight over.
Eastern University on hold from CCCU after dropping ban on LGBTQ faculty
By Yonat Shimron — November 14, 2022
(RNS) — The school has amended its policies to allow for the hiring of LGBTQ faculty and to add sexual orientation to its non-discrimination statement.
Grove City College caught in crossfire of evangelical CRT battles
By Kathryn Post — March 11, 2022
(RNS) — A small, conservative Christian college in Pennsylvania has become the latest battleground in the evangelical 'woke war.'
What to expect on the religious scene in 2021: Experts cast their sights on the year ahead
By Yonat Shimron — December 31, 2020
(RNS) — We asked scholars, faith leaders, activists and other experts to reflect on some of the issues they’ve seen on the religious landscape and what they anticipate for 2021.
In Trump they trust
By Mark Silk — December 11, 2020
(RNS) — The 'hold your nose and vote' theory of why white evangelicals went for Donald Trump is in shambles.
Franklin Graham borrows a tactic from the left with his Saturday prayer march
By Yonat Shimron — September 25, 2020
(RNS) — He insists the march is not an effort to encourage voting or to rally evangelicals to the polls ahead of the Nov. 3 election. But his choice of speakers suggests otherwise.
Franklin Graham on impeachment: ‘Our country could begin to unravel’
By Yonat Shimron — October 2, 2019
(RNS) — Graham’s defense of the president echoed that of fellow evangelical Robert Jeffress, pastor of First Baptist Church Dallas, who warned of a potential civil war and accused Democrats of worshipping the pagan god Moloch.
Explainer: Trump and the politics of the Messiah
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 22, 2019
(RNS) — Recent praise of the president has some evangelical leaders reassuring followers that Trump had no delusions about the nature of his mission. But you could see how he might.
Did Jerry Falwell’s personal photos violate Christian sexual codes?
By Yonat Shimron — May 9, 2019
(RNS) — Many schools, such as Liberty University, have honor codes that spell out Christian standards for sexual conduct. Nude photos are not among them.
Is America a Christian nation? Metaxas, Fea offer competing views
By Emily McFarlan Miller — September 27, 2018
CHICAGO (RNS) — As Constitution Day passed this month, popular evangelical Christian authors Eric Metaxas and John Fea discussed the topic on university campuses in the Chicago area.
Why evangelicals might vote for Roy Moore anyway
By Yonat Shimron — November 20, 2017
(RNS) — Conservative Christians have developed a particular intellectual strategy for engaging with others called “presuppositionalism.”
Scholars seek to reclaim a dirty word: secularism
By Kimberly Winston — February 22, 2013
(RNS) A conference at Georgetown University this week focused on cleaning up what many Americans consider a dirty word: secularism. The goal of the "Secularism on the Edge" conference was, in part, to define what secularism is and what it is not.
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