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Churches Will Not Be Open on Easter. But What If They Were?

John Fea   |  March 28, 2020

Donald Trump is hoping to celebrate three resurrections on April 12, 2020.  Here they are in order of how I believe the president has prioritized them: His own political future The American economy The resurrection of Jesus Trump knows that...

Is Capitalism Good for Us?

John Fea   |  March 2, 2020

Here is a very interesting debate between Mary Hirschfeld and Eugene McCarraher at Villanova University. Hirscheld is the author of Aquinas and the Market: Toward a Humane Economy.  McCarraher is the author of The Enchantments of Mammon: How Capitalism Became the...

David Bentley Hart Reviews Eugene McCarraher’s *The Enchantments of Mammon*

John Fea   |  January 8, 2020

And he loves it.  Here is a taste of Hart‘s review of McCarraher‘s new book: The Enchantments of Mammon is a magnificent book. It is, before all else, a sheer marvel of patient scholarship, history on a grand scale and in...

Kate Bowler on Evangelical Women Celebrities

John Fea   |  October 2, 2019

Duke Divinity School’s Kate Bowler keeps churning out books.  Her latest is The Preacher’s Wife: The Precarious Power of Evangelical Women Celebrities. Over at Christianity Today, Liberty University’s Karen Swallow Prior interviews Bowler about her new book. Here is a taste: Despite...

Was America Born Capitalist?

John Fea   |  November 27, 2018

We are working hard to get Princeton University historian Daniel Rodgers on the podcast.  He is the author of  As a City Upon a Hill: The Story of America’s Most Famous Lay Sermon.  (He will be featured on the Author’s...

"Corporate Evangelicalism"

John Fea   |  August 11, 2016

I recently finished reading Chris Lehmann’s The Money Cult: Capitalism, Christianity,and the Unmaking of the American Dream. I have been a fan of Lehmann’s writing for some time now. A former graduate student in history at the University of Rochester where he...

Has Free-Market Catholic Social Teaching Run Its Course?

John Fea   |  March 22, 2016

Anthony Annett of the Earth Institute at Columbia University seems to think so. In a recent blog post at dotCommonweal titled “The Fall of the House of Neuhaus,” Annett offers a brief history of the way Neuhaus and his friends...

McMass

John Fea   |  December 3, 2014 Leave a Comment

A group of entrepreneurs is trying to raise one million dollars to build a McDonald’s restaurant inside a church.  They are calling the project “McMass.”  Here is the plan: Churches in modern times suffer from a number of unique problems. […]

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