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Search Results for: Charis Bible College

Recovered from the archives: “An Open Letter to the Students of Charis Bible College”

John Fea   |  August 12, 2021

Yesterday a reader told me that he was searching for this 2016 post and couldn’t find it. It seems to have disappeared from The Way of Improvement Leads Home blog. But I managed to find it at another site on […]

“Prophet” Lance Wallnau: Steve Bannon should speak in tongues and the Trump family should be “Charismatic Pentecostals”

John Fea   |  March 22, 2023

Lance Wallnau has been on a roll of late. Some of you know Wallnau. He’s the guy who: He now wants to win MAGA “thought leaders” to Pentecostalism: Wallnau recently spoke at the “Fire and Glory Live” event. Here is […]

Evangelical roundup for November 6, 2023

John Fea   |  November 6, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land:‘ Jon Ward on leaving the “evangelical bubble.” He is the author of Testimony: Inside the Evangelical Movement That Failed a Generation. Thomas Kidd on the history of evangelical support for Israel. New Trustees at […]

Evangelical roundup for March 2, 2023

John Fea   |  March 2, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical Land? Evangelicals around the world are praying for Ukraine. Evangelicals and rumspringa. Russian evangelicals and the war in Ukraine. Why Tim Keller avoids the culture wars. How should evangelicals engage Haiti? The Asbury Revival and […]

Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?

John Fea   |  September 16, 2022

On the common agenda of Seven Mountain Dominionists and National Conservatives

Evangelical roundup for September 12, 2022

John Fea   |  September 12, 2022

What is happening in Evangelical land? Daniel Williams on why progressive Christians should join the pro-life cause. Is evangelical male-female friendship possible? Jim Wallis defends Biden’s Philadelphia speech. Lisa Sharon Harper on the death of Queen Elizabeth: It looks like […]

Metaxas: “God has called me to fight to the death for what is true and right”

John Fea   |  September 11, 2022

Back in April 2021, I wrote a piece at Current titled, “The Education of an Evangelical Insurrectionist.” It told the story of Tyler Ethridge, a graduate of Charis Bible College who entered the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021 […]

Evangelical roundup for April 14, 2022

John Fea   |  April 14, 2022

What is happening in Evangelical land? Despite Donald Trump’s endorsement of David Perdue in the Georgia gubernatorial race, evangelicals are still backing incumbent Brian Kemp. Eric Metaxas interviews Rudy Giuliani. The conspiracy theories abound! Jenna Ellis and Eric Metaxas on […]

Sidney Powell goes on the show of a 7 Mountain Dominionist and says Democrats murdered people in Georgia to cover up stealing the 2020 election

John Fea   |  September 22, 2021

Andrew Wommack is a Seven Mountain Dominionist. He believes that Christians must gain control of the seven spheres of cultural influence: Business, Government, Media, Arts and Entertainment, Education, Family, and Religion. When Christians control these spheres, Jesus Christ will return. […]

Who were the evangelical Christians who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021?

John Fea   |  July 7, 2021

I have already introduced readers to Tyler Ethridge, a Seven Mountain Dominionist trained at Charis Bible College’s David Barton School of Government. But Ethridge was not the only evangelical Christian at the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Here is Michelle […]

The Education of an Evangelical Insurrectionist

John Fea   |  April 30, 2021

“I’m probably going to lose my job as a pastor after this.” Tyler Ethridge was days away from starting a new job as a youth pastor at an evangelical church in Florida. But before the former Texas high school football […]

The inerrancy summit

John Fea   |  March 18, 2025

Liz Charlotte Grant’s Christian Century piece on the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy begins this way: “On October 25, 1978, about 250 White men strode across the orange carpet of the Chicago Hyatt Regency O’Hare’s lobby with a ten-dollar theological […]

LONG FORM: (De)constructing the “Christian Menace”

Jesse Smith   |  February 26, 2025

Surveys are poor tools for detecting religious extremists—and much else

LONG FORM: The Responsibility of Christian Intellectuals in the Age of Trump

John Fea   |  December 19, 2024

How should we think, write, and speak?

1 day until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  November 4, 2024

Yesterday I was writing about Rev. Dwight McKissic, the pastor of Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington, Texas. In my current book manuscript I describe the role McKissic played in an anti-gay marriage rally in Arlington, Texas back in May 2004. […]

Thirty days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 6, 2024

Have you heard about “Project 19“? This is charismatic “prophet” Lance Wallnau’s name for the Seven Mountain Dominionist attempt to take 19 counties in the swing states that will decide the 2024 presidential election. They are Cobb County (GA), Fulton […]

Live blogging night 2 of the 2024 Republican National Convention

John Fea   |  July 16, 2024

Coming soon. In the meantime, check out our coverage of night 1. ***** Is the GOP unified? Maybe. But old GOP rivalries die hard. Remember when Matt Gaetz managed to get Kevin McCarthy removed as Speaker of the House? Remember […]

Evangelical roundup for February 5, 2024

John Fea   |  February 5, 2024

What is happening in Evangelical land Stop equating evangelical Christianity with whiteness More on the Quaker evangelicals serving migrants in Denver. Joel Belz, RIP. John Inazu interviews Michael Wear on spiritual formation and politics. The National Association of Evangelicals is […]

Evangelical roundup for February 1, 2024

John Fea   |  February 1, 2024

What is happening in Evangelical land? Can evangelicalism have a constructive vision? A Denver evangelical congregation opens an overnight shelter for migrants. Ryan Burge on “cultural evangelicalism“ Christian college presidents gather: Evangelicals and European elections World Vision’s READ II Project: […]

Evangelical roundup for December 11, 2023

John Fea   |  December 11, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land? The New Republic is reporting that Messianic Jews are trying to share the Gospel with Israeli soldiers on the front lines. The author of the piece, Ellie Hardy, suggests that they are “proselytizing” because […]

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