Search Results for: Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

Big changes at Trinity International University, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and the Evangelical Free Church

John Fea | March 5, 2024

If I am reading the situation correctly: It is all explained in this press release: On Thursday, February 15, Nicholas Perrin, President of Trinity International University, tendered his resignation to the TIU Board of Regents, effective February 29, 2024. Dr. […]

What is going on at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School?

John Fea | April 12, 2022

When I graduated from Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 1992 with a Masters of Divinity and a Masters of Arts in Church History, the school had 937 full-time equivalent students. That was larger than my undergraduate institution! Today TEDS has […]

Evangelical roundup for March 25, 2024

John Fea | March 25, 2024

What is happening in Evangelical land? Reuters discovers Trump evangelical media. Are evangelicals responsible for violence in the Middle East? Evangelicals disrupt pre-Lenten partying in Brazil. World Vision on Gaza: Are evangelicals placing power over politics? Russell Moore tries to […]

Evangelical roundup for December 21, 2023

John Fea | December 21, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land? Are evangelicals who appear in a Rob Reiner film “selling out?” The Holy Post gang discusses the Rob Reiner film and my piece completely miss the spirit of it. Phil Vischer and Skye Jethani […]

Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem: Trump should drop out of the 2024 presidential race to “preserve his legacy”

John Fea | November 29, 2023

Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem, my former theology professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (I took one course with him), made waves when he endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. We spent some time at this blog reflecting on those […]

Evangelical roundup for May 15, 2023

John Fea | May 15, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land? What is happening in evangelical higher education? On the decline of Southern Baptist church membership. The latest on The Kings College. Russell Moore on evangelical congregations and Trump. Michael Wear liked it: Great line: […]

Evangelical roundup for April 20, 2023

John Fea | April 20, 2023

What is happening in Evangelical land? Charles Stanley, RIP. The Southern Baptist Convention calls for red flag gun laws in Tennessee. C.S. Lewis evangelicals. Three generations of pastors. Christian Right presidential candidates are coming to Iowa. Amy Grant steps up: […]

Trinity College in Deerfield, IL ends residential, in-person undergraduate education.

John Fea | February 20, 2023

My first teaching job at a four-year college was at Trinity College in Deerfield, IL (now the undergraduate college of Trinity International University). Then history department chair Rick Pointer invited me to teach a course on European history from 1945 […]

My Evangelical Mind

John Fea | November 10, 2022

In my experience, born-again Christianity was not always anti-intellectual

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 […]

Evangelical roundup for October 11, 2021

John Fea | October 11, 2021

What is happening in Evangelical land? What would Edmund Burke say about what evangelicals call “conservatism.” White evangelicals in denial: Francis Collins on science and faith. He is till trying to get evangelicals to take the vaccine. I am sure […]

Is evangelical Christianity a religious movement, or is it something else?

John Fea | July 17, 2021

I first read historian Paul E. Johnson’s 1978 book A Shopkeeper’s Millennium: Society and Revivals in Rochester, New York, 1815-1837 in 1989 while I was studying church history at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. Johnson argued that evangelical religion in Rochester, […]