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Franklin Graham: GET THE VACCINE!

John Fea   |  May 18, 2021

Here is Franklin and Wolf Blitzer: Graham says he would be glad to help the Biden administration reach anti-vaxxer evangelicals....

Are you looking for an evangelical congregation not divided by race, Trump, or COVID-19? Good luck

John Fea   |  May 15, 2021

Many evangelical Christians believe that racism is a problem in the church, Trump was bad for the church, and COVID-19 revealed selfishness in the church. Some are deciding to stay in their divided congregations and work toward reconciliation. Others are...

Pope Francis reaches out to Italian Pentecostalism

John Fea   |  May 15, 2021

As someone shaped by Roman Catholicism, evangelicalism, (though not Pentecostalism), and Italian-American culture (which I realize is quite different from Italian culture), I was pleased to see this. Here is Vatican News: Pope Francis has expressed his closeness to the...

Evangelical roundup for May 10, 2021

John Fea   |  May 10, 2021

What is going on in Evangelicalland? Eric Metaxas was in Lancaster, Pennsylvania last weekend and had a run-in with a Black Lives Matter protester. He also criticizes the people of Lancaster for wearing masks. Metaxas still believes that Donald Trump...

Unlike Evangelicals, Catholics have a high vaccination rate

John Fea   |  April 28, 2021

A significant number of evangelicals do not want to get the COVID-19 vaccine. Catholics, on the other hand, have a high vaccination rate. Here is Robert David Sullivan at America: In an attempt to more closely examine the link between...

Biden responds to evangelical World Relief’s call to raise the refugee ceiling

John Fea   |  April 17, 2021

Evangelicals are doing good work. Here is a taste of Jack Jenkins’s reporting at Religion News Service: President Joe Biden’s administration has reversed a decision to keep in place a historically low cap on refugee admissions left by Donald Trump,...

CNN does a documentary on an evangelical anti-vaxxer

John Fea   |  April 16, 2021

CNN’s Elle Reeve apparently wanted to do a story on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine. So she went to Tony Spell’s Life Tabernacle Church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This is what she came up with: A few thoughts: The fact...

Russell Moore: Young evangelicals are walking away because the church itself does not believe what the church teaches

John Fea   |  April 15, 2021

This is Russell Moore at his best: Many of us have observed, anecdotally, a hemorrhaging of younger evangelicals from churches and institutions in recent years. What seems different about this quiet exodus is that the departures are heightened not among...

Brazilian evangelicals oppose church closings

John Fea   |  April 12, 2021

If you have been following the COVID-19 outbreaks in Brazil I think you will find an upcoming Current feature insightful. “How Long,” a piece by Brazilian public intellectual Alexandre Brasil Fonseca, will appear this week. Stay tuned. In the meantime,...

The Author’s Corner with Crawford Gribben

Annie Thorn   |  April 8, 2021

Crawford Gribben is Professor of History at Queen’s University Belfast. This interview is based on his new book, Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America: Christian Reconstruction in the Pacific Northwest (Oxford University Press, 2021). JF: What led you to write...

More on evangelicals and the COVID-19 vaccine

John Fea   |  April 5, 2021

Francis Collins is an evangelical Christian and the director of the National Institute of Health. In a recent appearance on CBS News he called the COVID-19 vaccine “”an answer to prayer.” Watch: Franklin Graham also tried to get his followers...

The president of the National Association of Evangelicals talks to NPR

John Fea   |  March 29, 2021

Listen to the interview here. Kim talks about evangelicals and politics, the culture wars, purity culture, race, and his vision for evangelicals moving forward. Here is a taste of NPR’s summation: Kim didn’t grow up as an evangelical. He established...

Franklin Graham thinks evangelicals should get the vaccine. He’s getting blowback.

John Fea   |  March 26, 2021

In a previous post, I suggested that Donald Trump can do very little to convince his evangelical followers to take the vaccine. White evangelicals are the least likely group to take it. As part of that post, I wondered whether...

Evangelist Luis Palau has died

John Fea   |  March 12, 2021

Here is Morgan Lee at Christianity Today: Evangelist Luis Palau has died at age 86 of lung cancer. An immigrant from Argentina who made his home in the United States, Palau became one of Billy Graham’s most prominent successors and...

When devout evangelicals reject the advice of their pastors and decide to storm the U.S. Capitol

John Fea   |  February 20, 2021

Peter Manseau, the curator of American religious history at the Smithsonian, tells the story of Michael Sparks, an evangelical Christian who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. Here is a taste of his piece at The Washington Post:...

Sean Penn is confused

John Fea   |  February 15, 2021

Some might say Sean Penn has been confused for a long time. There are indeed times when I can’t distinguish Penn from Jeff Spicoli. But in this post I am specifically referencing his recent tweet: First, the passive voice! Second,...

White evangelicals love QAnon

John Fea   |  February 12, 2021

Here is Jack Jenkins at Religion News Service: A new survey reports more than a quarter of white evangelical Protestants believe a QAnon conspiracy theory that purports former President Donald Trump is secretly battling a cabal of pedophile Democrats, and...

Evangelicals need to learn how to corporately confess their sins

John Fea   |  February 11, 2021

I mentioned Skye Jethani‘s thoughts on corporate confession and repentance in one of my posts on Justo Gonzalez’s Teach Us To Pray: The Lord’s Prayer in the Early Church and Today. Yesterday at Religion News Service, Jethani developed a few...

Evangelical politics, even among Trump voters, is not monolithic

John Fea   |  February 8, 2021

I have been talking to a lot of evangelical pastors in the wake of the 2020 presidential election. A lot of them tell a more complex story about evangelical Christianity in America than the one currently found in the press...

What do evangelicals around the world think about American evangelicals?

John Fea   |  February 2, 2021

René Breuel is a native of Brazil who currently pastors an evangelical church Rome. He has led evangelical student movements in Brazil, Germany, Canada, and Italy and is the author of The Paradox of Happiness: Finding True Joy in a...

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