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Are you reading the Christian Scholars Review blog?

John Fea   |  July 2, 2021

The Christian Scholar’s Review (CSR) is “a medium for communication among Christians who have been called to an academic vocation. Its primary objective is the publication of peer-reviewed scholarship and research, within and across the disciplines, that advances the integration of...

What I learned this weekend

John Fea   |  June 14, 2021

It was good to get back to conferences this weekend. I forgot how much there is to learn through attending conferences and how much face-to-face engagement is so much more effective at stimulating thinking than ZOOM events. On Thursday I...

Christian historians and the “imago Dei”

John Fea   |  July 8, 2020

Earlier today I posted on the politicization of the Judeo-Christian belief that human beings are created in the image of God. In this post, I want to cover how a belief in the imago Dei informs how I do history....

The Challenge of Christian Liberal Arts in This Pandemic and Beyond

John Fea   |  April 21, 2020

Bethel University in St. Paul, Minnesota will cut thirty faculty positions this week. Today, at Messiah College, we learned about how the administration will cut seven million dollars from our budget over the course of the next five years. I...

Some Thoughts on the Audience of *Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump*

John Fea   |  July 20, 2018

Who is the audience for Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump? There are three audiences.  Here they are, in no particular order: The 81% of white American evangelicals who voted for Donald Trump. The 19% of white American evangelicals (and...

“Loyalty and respect not present in any other kind of social criticism.”  

John Fea   |  January 22, 2018

Christian academics occupy a very lonely space. We are not entirely trusted, and often looked upon with suspicion, by our faith communities. We are also not entirely trusted, and often looked upon with suspicion, by the academic communities we inhabit....

Alvin Plantinga: Philosopher

John Fea   |  September 28, 2017

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Brief Thoughts on Paper Presentations at the “State of the Evangelical Mind” Conference

John Fea   |  September 28, 2017

The last few days I have been posting on some of the keynote lectures at the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference held last week in Indianapolis.  You can read all the posts here. In this final post I want...

John Hawthorne Reflects on the “State of the Evangelical Mind” Conference

John Fea   |  September 26, 2017

One of the joys of attending the “State of the Evangelical Mind” conference last week was the opportunity to meet fellow Christian scholars in person that I have only interacted with via social media.  One of those scholars is John...

The Seminary and the “Evangelical Mind”

John Fea   |  September 26, 2017

Lauren Winner is Associate Professor of Christian Spirituality at Duke Divinity School. Her lecture on Christian thinking in theological seminaries was one of the highlights of “The State of the Evangelical Mind” conference in Indianapolis. First, Winner observed that evangelical...

An Open Letter from Christian Scholars on Racism in America

John Fea   |  August 25, 2017

I have attached my signature to this statement: ​Like many Americans, we are grieved by recent events in Charlottesville. The white supremacist rally there showed that overt racism is alive and well in America, and that it can turn violent...

Grant Opportunity for Emerging Christian Scholars

John Fea   |  March 9, 2017

Apply for the 2017 Christian Scholars Foundation Grant. What do scholars in Chemistry/Biochemistry, English/American Studies/Religious Studies, Church History, Mathematics, and Psychology have in common? They’re all ESN Members who have received funding from the Christian Scholars Foundation. You can read...

Scott Culpepper's "Call to Courageous Christian Scholarship" in the Age of Trump

John Fea   |  January 18, 2017

Scott Culpepper teaches history at Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa. In a guest post at The Anxious Bench he exhorts Christian scholars to courageously pursue their vocations in the age of Trump.  It is a wonderful piece.  Here is...

Robert George: A Christian Scholar on the Spiritual Disciplines

John Fea   |  July 13, 2016

As many of you know, I am very interested in the ways that my Christian faith informs what I do as a scholar, historian, and teacher.  Back in 2011 I joined my friends Jay Green and Eric Miller in editing Confessing...

*The Secularization of the Academy* Turns 25

John Fea   |  October 23, 2015

It all started in 1990 with a conference at Duke on secularization and the academy.  (At the time I was a first year divinity school student.  The internet did not exist yet and I had no idea that this conference...

Tweeting the 2014 Meeting of the Conference on Faith and History

John Fea   |  October 1, 2014

If you have been reading this blog or following my twitter feed (@johnfea1) you know that I just returned from the biennial meeting of the Conference on Faith and History (CFH).  This year’s CFH was special.  It was held in...

R.R. Reno on The Christian Intellectual

John Fea   |  November 19, 2013 Leave a Comment

Thomas Aquinas: Christian scholar R.R. Reno, the editor of First Things magazine, posted a nice piece yesterday on the characteristics of a Christian intellectual.  Here are a few of my favorite passages: Even when we swim against the stream there’s a deep […]

Is “Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?” Unlikely “To Reach Most Evangelicals”?

John Fea   |  September 19, 2013

This week’s Books & Culture podcast focuses on Roger Lundin’s new edited collection, Christ Across the Disciplines.  David Bebbington wrote the essay on the discipline of history. Listen here. John Schmalzbauer wrote the essay on sociology. In it he mentions...

It’s Official: “Books and Culture” Survives!

John Fea   |  September 9, 2013 Leave a Comment

Here is the latest tweet from Books & Culture editor John Wilson: Wonderful news: We reached our goal for @booksandculture : Thank you! And here is a letter from Christianity Today CEO Harold Smith: Dear Friends, Never in my 30 […]

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