What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? It looks likes COVID-19 was present at Robert Jeffress’s Sunday morning political rally at First Baptist-Dallas. Newt Gingrich is on the Eric Metaxas Show today talking about his new book Trump and the American...
Christian nationalism
Mike Pence visits First Baptist-Dallas for “Freedom Sunday.” He and Robert Jeffress show us what idolatry looks like.
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYQlAunB_xI&w=560&h=315] We have written about this annual service before. Check out posts here and here and here and here and here and here and here. In case you don’t have time to watch, allow me to give you a...
Friday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? Eric Metaxas and his guest entertain the idea that there is a relationship between a COVID-19 vaccine and the “mark of the beast” in the book of Revelation. His guest is this guy. Today...
A Conversation on Christian nationalism in America
What is Christian nationalism? Shaun Casey of the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World Affairs at Georgetown University talks with sociologists Andrew Whitehead and Samuel Perry, co-authors of Taking America Back for God: Christian Nationalism in the United States. Watch:...
Wednesday night court evangelical roundup
What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? Andy Rowell (a never-Trump evangelical) has a useful Twitter thread on Donald Trump’s visit yesterday to the “Students for Trump” rally at an Arizona megachurch. Court evangelical journalist David Brody of Christian Broadcasting Network...
White evangelicals speak out against abortion much more than systemic racism. Why?
Over at The Anxious Bench, historian Daniel K. Williams asks, “Why have those of us who are white evangelical Christians found it so easy to speak out against abortion (and, in the case of tens of thousands of white evangelicals, even get...
Trump launched his 2020 campaign tonight. Not much has changed since 2016.
Earlier this evening, Donald Trump started his campaign with a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The number of coronavirus cases in Oklahoma is rising. Most of those who did attend the rally were not wearing masks. With the exception of U.S....
Os Guinness’s Appeal to the Past is Deeply Problematic
Watch Christian speaker and author Os Guinness deliver a speech titled 1776 vs. 1789: the Roots of the Present Crisis. It is part of an event hosted by the Chuck Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Someone sent it to me...
My Conversation With Katherine Stewart, Author of *The Power Worshippers*, is Now Online
Watch it here and support the Midtown Scholar: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lbdXmFplELs&w=560&h=315]...
Is the Christian Right to Blame for the Coronavirus?
As some of you know, earlier this week I participated in a conversation with Katherine Stewart, author of The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationism. I think you can still watch the conversation here. Today at The New York...
A Great Night “At” the Midtown Scholar Bookstore
Here is a taste of Yaasmeen Piper’s piece at The Burg: However, that didn’t stop Midtown Scholar Bookstore from bringing its famous book talks to the community. They just had to get a bit more creative. On Wednesday evening, Midtown Scholar...
I’ll Be Live With Katherine Stewart on Wednesday Night “at” the Midtown Scholar
Our face-to-face book event got canceled, but the Midtown Scholar Bookstore has moved us online! Here is the announcement: We’re thrilled to announce our very first virtual event! Join authors Katherine Stewart and John Fea via Crowdcast as they discuss...
With Katherine Stewart at the Midtown Scholar Bookstore
On March 12, 2020, author Katherine Stewart will be at the Midtown Scholar in Harrisburg to discuss her new book The Power Worshippers: Inside the Dangerous Rise of Religious Nationalism. I will be interviewing her at the event. Learn more here....
The Annual Battle of Gettysburg Reenactment Gives Way to Glenn Beck
According to this article at Penn Live, the 2020 reenactment at the Battle of Gettysburg has been canceled because Glenn Beck is hosting an event called “Restoring the Covenant on the Sacred Land of Gettysburg.” Beck’s event will “reflect on...
Liberty University’s Falkirk Center Says “Turning the Other Cheek” is No Longer Sufficient
We have blogged about Liberty University’s Falkirk Center before. The more I learn about this center the more I am convinced that it does not represent the teachings of Christianity. Recently someone on Twitter pointed out this paragraph in the...
Nationalism and Worship
Martin Spence is Associate Professor of History at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is writing for us this weekend at the Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association in New York City. Enjoy his latest post. –JF This...
More on the Liberty University’s Falkirk Center and How It Will Approach American History
Here is Charlie Kirk and Jerry Falwell Jr. on One News: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrSZSLrilZ4&w=560&h=315] So it looks like the Falkirk Center: Will attack the work of outstanding public school history teachers, the kinds of teachers I have worked with over the...
Liberty University’s “Falkirk Center” Will Focus on American History
What is the Falkirk Center? Get up to speed here. Watch Falwell Jr. and Charlie Kirk talk about their new center on Fox News. Falwell Jr. says that the center will teach “History 101” because such American history “has not...
Liberty University’s Falkirk Center Now Has a Website
There is not much on it, but you can look at the website here. Here is the mission statement: The mission of the Falkirk Center at Liberty University is to equip courageous champions to proclaim the truth of Jesus Christ...
Is the United States of America in the Bible?
Short answer: NO. Bible scholar Pete Enns explains: America is not in the Bible. In no way, shape, or form. Not a hint. Not a whiff. America is not in the Bible, not even here: If my people who are called by my name...