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Are Trump’s Evangelical Critics Elitist? The Pietist Schoolman Reflects on Evangelical Populism

John Fea   |  December 23, 2019

After Mark Galli published a Christianity Today editorial calling for the removal of Donald Trump, several pundits accused Galli of betraying the populist roots of American evangelicalism.  Galli, in other words, is an out of touch elitist. Read court evangelical Johnnie Moore’s...

Is *First Things* a Populist Magazine?

John Fea   |  December 22, 2019

I check the First Things website every day and often link to pieces I find interesting.  But I stopped reading First Things regularly after Richard John Neahaus passed away. (I used to subscribe and read each issue cover-to-cover). On Friday, ...

Is Mark Galli an “Evangelical Elite?” Is He “Out of Touch?”

John Fea   |  December 20, 2019

Carl Trueman, a theologian who teaches at Grove City College in western Pennsylvania, thinks that Mark Galli, the editor of Christianity Today and the author of this editorial, is an “evangelical elite” who is “out of touch” with ordinary evangelicals.  Here is...

What Looms on the Horizon for Christian Colleges?

John Fea   |  January 18, 2018

Over at First Things, church historian Carl Trueman argues that Christian colleges need to prepare financially for a bleak future in a post-Christian age.  He writes: The specific point of conflict is likely to be (once again) Title IX legislation that...

Should Christian Historians Make an Appeal to Providence in Their Work?

John Fea   |  December 4, 2014

More providential history:In Why Study History?: Reflecting on the Importance of the Past I argued that providence is not a helpful tool when it comes to the historian’s job of interpreting the past.  Over at the blog of the Gospel Coalition,...

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