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Ken Myers reflects on three decades of Mars Hill Audio

John Fea   |  August 5, 2020

It has happened three times. A producer from Mars Hill Audio e-mails and asks me if I want to talk with Ken Myers about the subject of my latest book. The producer schedules me at a studio in Dillsburg, Pennsylvania–a...

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What is happening at Spring Arbor University?

John Fea   |  August 4, 2020

I was surprised last week to be informed that this coming year will be my last at Spring Arbor University. As a result of budget cuts, several faculty are being let go, including some of us with tenure. — Jeffrey...

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The American Solidarity Party

John Fea   |  December 5, 2019

Over at The Front Porch Republic, Jeff Bilbro interviews Brian Carroll, the American Solidarity Party‘s 2020 nominee for President of the United States.  Here is a taste: JB: The American Solidarity platform includes planks that, at least in the American context,...

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Eric Miller Talks Christopher Lasch and Wendell Berry

John Fea   |  October 30, 2019

Recently Eric Miller was a guest on the Solidarity Hall podcast “Dorothy’s Place.” Listen here. Miller on Lasch: “You know you’re in the right space for Lasch when you don’t feel at ease but you feel alive.”...

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“A principled stance against abortion makes sense only within a matrix that ties together the economic and social ordering of society”

John Fea   |  June 7, 2019

All pro-lifers need to read John Medaille’s piece at the Front Porch Republic.  Here is a taste: The most inflammatory debates about abortion concern pregnancies resulting from rape or incest or those which endanger the life of the mother. But as...

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Some Front Porchers Pick Their Candidate for 2020

John Fea   |  April 2, 2019

What is a Front Porcher?  One way to define a Front Porcher is someone who reads (and generally likes what they read at) a website titled Front Porch Republic.  Here is a description of what the website is all about:...

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Critiquing Liberalism

John Fea   |  December 14, 2018

Over at The Front Porch Republic, Jeff Bilbro has a fascinating and brilliant review of a conference at Calvin College titled “Faith and Democracy in America: Christianity and Liberalism Rightly Understood.” Here is a taste: In early December, the Acton...

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WHAT????? Darryl Hart Actually Likes Something I Wrote

John Fea   |  October 29, 2018

Over the last couple of years I have been a regular target of Darryl Hart, professor of history at Hillsdale College in Michigan.  Read all his posts about my work here. So needless to say,  I was surprised to see...

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Another Post About People Who Tweet About Wendell Berry

John Fea   |  May 22, 2018

Some of you will recall this post from last week.  Since my critical review of Matt Stewart’s piece “Stop Talking about Wendell Berry on Twitter,” several other folks have responded to it at the Front Porch Republic.  So far the...

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Actually, Matt Stewart, you DO have “to be a Wendell Berry fundamentalist” to believe those who use social media are delusional

John Fea   |  May 14, 2018

Matt Stewart, a graduate student at Syracuse University and a guy I call a friend, argues that Wendell Berry fans are betraying Berry by using social media.  Stewart has published this piece at The Front Porch Republic, a website with...

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The New Front Porch Republic

John Fea   |  February 24, 2018

  Spring Arbor University English professor Jeff Bilbro is the new web editor of the “The Front Porch Republic.”  I like what he’s done with the place. Good to see my  buddy Eric Miller writing for FPR and I think...

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My Piece on The Kasich Way at Religion News Service

John Fea   |  March 31, 2016

Blog readers are familiar with my take on the presidential candidacy of John Kasich.  I develop these ideas (and contextualize them) in my latest piece at Religion News Service. Here is a taste: (RNS) Republican Party leaders want John Kasich...

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Christopher Lasch and Localism

John Fea   |  October 7, 2015

l to r: Fox, Miller, Westbrook, and Lasch-Quinn Over at his blog In Media Res, Friends University political scientist Russell Arben Fox offers a summary post of a session on Christopher Lasch and localism at a recent Front Porch Republic gathering...

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Does “Staying Put” Cultivate Community?

John Fea   |  May 22, 2013

For the good folks at the Front Porch Republic the answer to this question seems to be an unqualified “yes.”  And anyone who reads this blog carefully knows I am sympathetic to the Front Porcher’s understanding of “place,” especially as...

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