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More on Pennsylvania governor candidate Doug Mastriano’s affiliation with a Conservative Mennonite Church

John Fea   |  June 6, 2022

We reported on this on May 19, 2022. Apparently Doug Mastriano and his family attends Pond Bank Mennonite Church in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Now Tim Huber, a writer at Anabaptist World, reports on it: CMC executive director Brian Hershberger told Anabaptist World by […]

Mastriano compares gun control to Nazism

John Fea   |  June 3, 2022

He is a “historian with a doctor in history.” No historian worth his salt would make such a sloppy and manipulative comparison. Watch: Mastriano’s claim here has been widely debunked and/or problematized. Also here. Also here. Get up to speed […]

Eastern University alumni ask university to rescind Doug Mastriano’s 2009 “Alumnus of the Year” award

John Fea   |  May 22, 2022

Frankly, I am surprised Eastern, a Christian college with a rather progressive political history–think Bryan Stevenson, Shane Claiborne, Roberta Hestenes, Ron Sider, Tony Campolo–would give Mastriano such an award. The committee must not have known about this 2001 paper. Here […]

On Doug Mastriano’s 2001 paper “The Civilian Putsch of 2018”

John Fea   |  May 21, 2022

Here is Greg Jaffee of The Washington Post with some context: Two decades before he was Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, Doug Mastriano warned in a master’s thesis that the United States was vulnerable to a left-wing “Hitlerian Putsch” that would begin […]

Satanic Portals, HIS-story, and Doug Mastriano

John Fea   |  May 20, 2022

The Christian Right seems incapable of democratic conversation

Where does Doug Mastriano go to church?

John Fea   |  May 19, 2022

It’s an interesting question. Where does the GOP nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, a pro-Trump, Big Lie-believing, Christian nationalist attend church? I did some digging today with the help of some friends on Twitter: Leave it to two guys with […]

The politics of spiritual warfare is clearly present in the Mastriano campaign

John Fea   |  May 17, 2022

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Christian Right websites from the early 21st century and I am struck by the difference between the political rhetoric of evangelical politicians then and evangelical politicians now. In the early 2000s, evangelical politicians–George […]

Why Pennsylvania Democrats are hoping Christian nationalist Doug Mastriano gets the GOP nomination for governor

John Fea   |  May 11, 2022

We have covered Mastriano before at this blog. Get up to speed on this guy here. Watch this piece by CNN: The Pennsylvania GOP knows that Mastriano will hurt them in the general election and are trying to stop him […]

Doug Mastriano announces his Pennsylvania gubernatorial campaign by blowing a shofar

John Fea   |  January 13, 2022

Regular readers of this blog know a thing or two about Doug Mastriano. You can get up to speed on the antics of this pro-Trump state senator here. Last weekend Mastriano announced his candidacy for governor of Pennsylvania. American Idol […]

Pennsylvania counties will not comply with state senator Doug Mastriano’s audit request

John Fea   |  July 31, 2021

We covered this here. Sara Murray has the story at CNN: A Pennsylvania Republican’s effort to launch a ballot audit of the 2020 results in the Keystone State has hit a roadblock after three counties declined to hand over their election materials […]

Doug Mastriano is at it again

John Fea   |  July 8, 2021

The Christian nationalist Pennsylvania senator with a hotline to Trump is initiating something called a “forensic investigation” of the 2020 election. Here is Mastriano at his website: A forensic investigation of our election results and processes for the 2020 General […]

Doug Mastriano’s Christian nationalism

John Fea   |  May 10, 2021

We have covered Doug Mastriano before. Check out our posts on the controversial Pennsylvania state senator here. Mastriano is the subject of Eliza Griswold’s recent piece at The New Yorker. Here is a taste: Doug Mastriano, a Republican state senator […]

Some Evangelicals Are Looking for a Reason to Vote for Harris

John Fea   |  October 24, 2024

She’s not giving them one

12 days until Election Day. What are evangelicals saying?

John Fea   |  October 23, 2024

Why haven’t conservative evangelicals, especially those of the MAGA variety, remained mostly silent about Donald Trump’s line about Arnold Palmer’s genitals? What happened to the Christian Right’s longtime concern about the coarseness of American culture? This morning I was writing […]

Seven Mountain Dominionist Lance Wallnau is hosting a ‘town hall” with JD Vance

John Fea   |  September 27, 2024

Last weekend I was in Anderson, South Carolina speaking to a group of progressive Christians. I devoted one of my lectures to Christian nationalism and mentioned Lance Wallnau, one of the most prominent Seven Mountain Dominionists in the country. None […]

Eric Metaxas: “Biden is our Hitler”

John Fea   |  June 9, 2024

Eric Metaxas gained fame in 2009 when he published a deeply flawed biography of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that was universally panned by Bonhoeffer scholars. In 2016, he endorsed Donald Trump for president in a much-discussed Wall Street Journal op-ed. Here are […]

North Carolina Republicans pick Mark Robinson as their gubernatorial candidate

John Fea   |  March 5, 2024

In November 2024, voters in the North Carolina governor’s race will have the opportunity to vote for a man who: His name is Mark Robinson and he currently holds the position of Lieutenant Governor. Tonight he won the The Tar […]

Evangelical roundup for January 11, 2024

John Fea   |  January 11, 2024

What is happening in Evangelical land? The “new” Trump evangelical voters. Tim Alberta on Biden’s speech at Mother Emanuel AME: Is Donald Trump a “man of faith? The National Association of Evangelicals is sharing the dream: Lecrae’s “Deconstruction“ Milligan University […]

I Am of Trump

John Fea   |  December 14, 2023

Perhaps the former president really is a unifier

Albert Mohler on the elite university presidents who testified before congress: “The moral rot starts at the top”

John Fea   |  December 10, 2023

I just want to make sure I get this straight. Albert Mohler, the president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary: Joined an amicus brief designed to limit his seminary liability for sexual abuse claims. Said he would support Doug Mastriano […]

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