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The Author’s Corner with Jeffers Lennox

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 12, 2022

Jeffers Lennox is Associate Professor of History at Wesleyan University. This interview is based on his new book, North of America: Loyalists, Indigenous Nations, and the Borders of the Long American Revolution (Yale University Press, 2022). JF: What led you...

The Author’s Corner with Daniel J. Broyld

Rachel Petroziello   |  July 5, 2022

Daniel J. Broyld is Associate Professor of African American History at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. This interview is based on his new book, Borderland Blacks: Two Cities in the Niagara Region during the Final Decades of Slavery (LSU Press,...

The Great MyPillow Airlift

John Fea   |  February 17, 2022

Forget about the Berlin Airlift. Mike “MyPillow Guy” Lindell is planning a Canadian airlift. You can’t make this stuff up. Here is Zachary Petrizzo of The Daily Beast: After his initial Tuesday shipment of MyPillow products was denied entry into Canada, Mike Lindell now...

The Author’s Corner with Sebastian Page

Annie Thorn   |  March 1, 2021

Sebastian Page is a historian of the 19th century United States and the Atlantic world. This interview is based on his new book, Black Resettlement and the American Civil War (Cambridge University Press, 2021). For those who wish to purchase...

John MacArthur’s reach extends to Canada

John Fea   |  February 20, 2021

Some of you may be following the controversy surrounding GraceLife Church in Edmonton, Alberta. Last Sunday, Alberta health officials arrived at the church and found that its leadership was ignoring public health restrictions related to Covid-19. The church was filled...

Episode 82: The Fastest Game in the World

John Fea   |  February 7, 2021

Ice hockey is now a global sport. Even Brazil, Mexico, Jamaica, and Australia have national teams. The National Hockey League has teams in Miami, Tampa Bay, Dallas, Nashville, and Phoenix. Junior league hockey is played in Shreveport and Amarillo. Anyone...

A Canadian historian reflects on Trumpism

John Fea   |  November 12, 2020

Here is a taste of Jerry Bannister‘s recent piece at Borealia: From the moment of Trump’s election four years ago, we have talked relentlessly about how long it will last. Fear of Tumpism is, at root, the fear of being...

Canada will bring 1.2 million immigrants into the country over the next three years.

John Fea   |  October 31, 2020

Just sayin’. 🙂 Here is Aljazeera: Canada plans to bring in more than 1.2 million new immigrants over the next three years, the federal immigration minister said on Friday, as the country tries to fill gaps in its labour market […]

When Canadian Methodists erased women evangelists from their history

John Fea   |  September 28, 2020

Check out historian Scott McLaren‘s interesting piece at Borealia, a blog about early Canadian history. McLaren, the author of Pulpit, Press, and Politics: Methodists and the Market for Books in Upper Canada, explores the ways early Methodist historians erased “the...

Loyalist Migration: A New Digital Resource

John Fea   |  June 9, 2020

Check out Tim Compeau‘s post at Borealia on a new project that will visualize the movement of men and women displaced by the American Revolution. A taste: Loyalist Migrations is a collaboration between Huron University College’s Community History Centre, the United Empire...

The Author’s Corner with Thomas Richards

Annie Thorn   |  May 21, 2020

Thomas Richards Jr. teaches history at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy. This interview is based on his new book, Breakaway Americas: The Unmanifest Future of the Jacksonian United States (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020). JF: What led you to write Breakaway Americas? TR: This book...

The Pot-Smoking Dutch Calvinists Who Stopped “worshipping the Ph.D.” and Gave Their Students “guerrilla credentials.”

John Fea   |  May 20, 2020

I don’t pretend to know much about Dutch Calvinism in America or the differences between Abraham Kuyper and Herman Dooyeweerd. (There are good books on the subject, I would start with the work of James D. Bratt). But I know...

CBC Ideas: “The Pulpit, Power & Politics: Evangelicalism’s Thumbprint on America”

John Fea   |  December 4, 2019

I recently joined Jemar Tisby and Molly Worthen on Canadian Broadcast Corporation’s “Ideas.”  You can listen here. Here is a taste of the accompanying article: John Fea has written an entire book about the apparently contradictory relationship of evangelicals and...

What is Happening to Religious Pluralism in Quebec?

John Fea   |  July 10, 2019

I just read Michael W. Higgins’s piece at Commonweal: “Quebec’s Moral Quagmire.”  Higgins explores Quebec’s “Bill 21,” a law that, in Higgins’s words, “bans police, civil servants, teachers, government officials, jail guards, and other state employees from wearing any form of...

Election Night with the CBC

John Fea   |  October 30, 2018

If you can pull yourself away from CNN or NPR on election night (November 6), I will be doing some commentary on the evangelical vote for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s radio coverage of the 2018 midterm elections.  More details to...

The Randomness of “Borders”

John Fea   |  August 15, 2018

Borders are not handed “down by God.”  They have a history.  Here is a short piece on “The Grey Zone”: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAlb0MWweno&w=560&h=315]  ...

Did Canadian Troops Burn Down the White House?

John Fea   |  June 7, 2018

No. But let’s not get too caught-up in Trump’s remarks to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau concerning the burning of Washington D.C. in the War of 1812.  Its slightly more complicated than the pundits make it out to be. Jeet...

Christian Political Engagement in the Age of Trump

John Fea   |  June 1, 2018

As some of you know, I spent the last couple of days in Regina, Saskatchewan.  The Canadian Society of Church History (CSCH)  invited me to deliver the keynote address at its annual conference.  (Thanks for everything Stuart Barnard!).  The collegial...

Saskatchewan Bound!

John Fea   |  May 25, 2018

I have never been to Saskatchewan.  But if all goes as planned, I will be visiting Regina, Saskatchewan on Wednesday (May 30) to deliver the plenary address at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society of Church History.  The title...

Canadian Evangelicals on Easter in an Age of Trump

John Fea   |  March 31, 2018

Check out Douglas Todd‘s piece at the Vancouver Sun.  He asks leading Canadian evangelicals what they think about all the evangelicals in the United States who support Donald Trump. Here is a taste: Three Canadian evangelical theologians say the politics of...

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