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Is it possible to respond to Greg Laurie’s invitation to accept Jesus tonight at Angel Stadium without also joining a political movement? 

John Fea   |  October 3, 2021

Thousands of Christians and their unbelieving friends will file into Angel Stadium in Anaheim, California on Sunday for Greg Laurie’s Southern California Harvest Crusade. They will be hoping for a good-old fashioned revival. Laurie is the pastor of Harvest Christian...

The great revival is coming and it will make America Christian again

John Fea   |  June 19, 2021

Greg Laurie says it is coming and it will restore America to its Christian roots. Ted Cruz says it is coming and it will propel evangelicals into cultural prominence. Eric Metaxas and Greg Locke also say it is on its...

Megachurch pastor Greg Laurie keeps pushing the links between the Great Awakening and the American Revolution

John Fea   |  June 17, 2021

Last week at the Sons of American Revolution conference on religion and the American Revolution, I started my keynote lecture this way: On April 5, 2020, Donald Trump announced (via Twitter of course) that he would be streaming the Palm...

Ah, the memories! Court evangelicals in their natural habitat

John Fea   |  May 4, 2021

Jim Garlow, one of the lesser-known court evangelicals, shared this video today at his public Facebook page. The date was May 3, 2017. I see the following court evangelicals schmoozing with their political savior as the band plays “New York,...

Everyone is discovering the court evangelicals!

John Fea   |  December 14, 2020

The conservative pundits are outraged at what happened at Saturday’s Jericho March! David French is worried that too many evangelicals have fallen for conspiracy theories. Rod Dreher says we would be wrong to “blow off” the influence of these evangelicals...

Court evangelicals are getting COVID-19

John Fea   |  October 5, 2020

Greg Laurie, the pastor of Harvest Christian Fellowship in Riverside, California, has COVID-19. I like Laurie and I have benefited from his ministry, but he has taken some really strange turns in the last decade or so. When you enter […]

Unmasked court evangelicals were at the Barrett announcement

John Fea   |  October 2, 2020

Donald Trump has COVID-19. So does his wife Melania Trump. So does the president of the University of Notre Dame. So does Utah senator Mike Lee. So does North Carolina senator Tom Tillis. Look at these pictures from Trump’s announcement...

Rod Dreher: “I don’t care that Eric threw a punch at that guy. He had it coming.”

John Fea   |  August 29, 2020

Conservative pundit Rod Dreher has responded to Eric Metaxas’s punch on Thursday night. His thoughts can be summed-up this way: Metaxas is a great and gentle man. The punch was out of character. Metaxas must have been provoked or felt...

The court evangelicals respond to Donald Trump’s RNC convention speech and the aftermath

John Fea   |  August 28, 2020

Last night I thought Franklin Graham offered a good opening prayer to kick-off the last night of the GOP convention. Today he sat for an interview with David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network. At times Graham tried to be...

Night two (Tuesday) at the DNC convention

John Fea   |  August 19, 2020

Here are some of my tweets from last night with additional context. My twitter followers seemed to be split 50-50 on this take: Obama could not get away w/his 2004 national unity speech today. After night 1 of #DNC2020, it...

If a spiritual revival leads to more Christian Trumpism, is it really a spiritual revival? Or is it something else?

John Fea   |  July 17, 2020

There are many white evangelicals who believe that a spiritual revival will solve the problem of racism in the United States. When God transforms a human heart, the argument goes, the inclination to perform racist acts will subside. So we...

Monday night court evangelical roundup

John Fea   |  July 6, 2020

What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since our last update? Greg Laurie is still suggesting that the United States was “born out of a revival.” I addressed the many problems with this view here. In fact, religious attendance and membership was at an all-time...

Post COVID-19: religious revival or religious recession?

John Fea   |  June 26, 2020

Last month, when I was writing my series “Three Sundays in April,” I commented on how court evangelical preachers Greg Laurie, Robert Jeffress, and Jack Graham were predicting a great spiritual revival as soon as Americans came out of quarantine...

Saturday night court evangelical roundup

John Fea   |  June 20, 2020

What have Trump’s evangelicals been saying since yesterday’s update? Liberty University’s pro-Trump Falkirk Center doesn’t see the irony of today’s tweet: Too much power over people in anybody’s hands is always a threat to liberty and justice. pic.twitter.com/ZsFRjf0Icp — Falkirk Center (@falkirk_center) June...

Wednesday Night Court Evangelical Roundup

John Fea   |  June 17, 2020

Since my last update, a few things have changed in court evangelical land. Neil Gorsuch, one of two Donald Trump Supreme Court nominees, has defended LGBTQ rights and has proven he may not be the best court evangelical ally when...

Monday Night Court Evangelical Roundup

John Fea   |  June 8, 2020

As the anti-racism protests continue, let’s see what Trump’s favorite evangelicals–the court evangelicals–are saying: Eric Metaxas is still going strong. Today he and his producer lamented how this weekend too many evangelical churches in America were “dancing” with and “caving-in”...

Three Sundays in April (Part 4)

John Fea   |  May 18, 2020

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOxuBs5sR_s&w=560&h=315] If you had thirty minutes to say something to the most powerful man in the world, what would you say? This is how I started our short series titled “Three Sundays in April.” On April 19, 2020, the...

Three Sundays in April (Part 3)

John Fea   |  May 5, 2020

If you had thirty minutes to say something to the most powerful man in the world, what would you say? This is how I started our short series titled “Three Sundays in April.” On April 12, 2020, Donald Trump watched...

Three Sundays in April (Part Two)

John Fea   |  April 28, 2020

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Three Sundays in April (Part 1)

John Fea   |  April 24, 2020

If you had thirty minutes to say something to the most powerful man in the world, what would you say? Three evangelical ministers–Greg Laurie, Robert Jeffress, and Jack Graham–had this opportunity during the Easter season. On Palm Sunday, Donald Trump,...

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