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“I will kill your friends and family to remind you of my love”

John Fea   |  January 19, 2019

The prep for my “Age of Hamilton” course is going fine.  It is scheduled to run in Fall 2019.  I am currently working on an interpretation of these songs: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NOjkmkanrc&w=560&h=315] I am finding Brendan McConnville’s The King’s Three Faces: The...

Evangelicals and Bishop Michael Curry’s Sermon at the Royal Wedding

John Fea   |  May 22, 2018

Chris Gerhz of Pietist Schoolman fame reflects on the evangelical response (or lack thereof) to Curry’s sermon.  Here is a taste of his piece: Did leading evangelicals pointedly ignore the sermon preached at Saturday’s royal wedding, by Episcopal Church presiding bishop Michael Curry? One...

Randall Balmer on Bishop Michael Curry

John Fea   |  May 22, 2018

This past weekend we did a quick post on Bishop Michael Curry’s sermon at the royal wedding.  Yesterday at The Washington Post, American religious historian Randall Balmer offers a more extended take on the sermon.  Here is a taste: Curry, a...

Reverend Michael Curry Stole the Show at Today’s Royal Wedding

John Fea   |  May 19, 2018

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTMWJU9Nafk&w=560&h=315] I finally got a chance to watch Rev. Michael Curry‘s sermon at this morning’s royal wedding.  Wow! The message itself was not particularly groundbreaking, but the occasion made it more powerful than it would have been if Curry...

University of Virginia Theologian Charles Marsh is Quoted at the Royal Wedding

John Fea   |  May 19, 2018

Bishop Michael Curry, the head of the American Episcopal Church, preached the sermon at the royal wedding this morning.  During the sermon Curry quoted Charles Marsh’s book The Beloved Community: How Faith Shapes Social Justice from the Civil Rights Movement to...

Woops! Harry and Meaghan Will Be Married on the Day of Anne Boleyn’s Execution

John Fea   |  May 18, 2018

You can’t slip one past a historian.  Here is Dordt College historian Scott Culpepper: I have returned from an extended hiatus devoted to writing other things just in time to note the interesting and amusing irony of Prince Harry and...

Queen Elizabeth II Visits Jamestown

John Fea   |  May 29, 2014 1 Comment

1957: [youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQISaFvPufw] British Pathe videos

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