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The unspoken vows of friendship

Nadya Williams   |  March 14, 2023

As the Roman Republic was facing its death throes and he himself was only months away from ignominious death, the legendary Roman politician and orator Cicero wrote what would become one of his most influential essays since antiquity: On Friendship....

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True Friendship and the Search for Meaning: Teaching Augustine’s *Confessions*

John Fea   |  March 14, 2020

Most of my students have never heard of Augustine of Hippo. Very few of them have read a 5th-century text. So I wasn’t sure what to expect when we discussed parts of Augustine’s Confessions in my Created and Called for Community...

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Teaching Stanley Hauerwas’s “Go With God”

John Fea   |  February 6, 2020

Yesterday was our first day of discussion in Created and Called for Community (CCC). The students read Stanley Hauerwas‘s 2010 First Things essay “Go With God: An Open Letter to Young Christians on Their Way to College.” After some conversation about...

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The Author’s Corner With Thomas Balcerski

John Fea   |  September 2, 2019

Thomas J. Balcerski is Assistant Professor of History at Eastern Connecticut State University.  This is interview is based on his new book Bosom Friends: The Intimate World of James Buchanan and William Rufus King (Oxford University Press, 2019). JF: What led you...

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Friendship in Early America

John Fea   |  June 3, 2017

I just learned that the theme of the recent issue of the Journal of Social History is “Friendship in Early America.” Here is the table of contents: Janet Moore Lindman, “Histories of Friendship in Early America: An Introduction” Gregory Smithers, “‘Our Hands...

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A Lesson from the Scalia-Ginsburg Friendship

John Fea   |  February 13, 2016

Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader-Ginsburg disagreed on just about everything, but they were very good friends.  They would spend New Year’s Eve together.   They took trips together. From all reports they really enjoyed one another’s company. I am guessing...

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The Author’s Corner with Cassandra A. Good

John Fea   |  January 22, 2015

Cassandra Good is the Associate Editor of the Papers of James Monroe at the University of Mary Washington. This interview is based on her new book, Founding Friendships: Friendships Between Men and Women in the Early American Republic (Oxford University Press, February...

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Presbyterians in Love

John Fea   |  February 9, 2013

I wrote this piece about five years ago.  I just remembered it today and thought I would post it again for those who missed it the first time. Presbyterians in Love Can Presbyterians fall in love? Okay, everyone falls in...

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Should Teachers Befriend Students?

John Fea   |  January 14, 2011

This is the title of a post by Sam Lamerson over at Scot McKnight’s Jesus Creed blog.  Lamerson discusses this in the context of divinity school teaching, but I would like to broaden its scope a bit to include the...

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