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Biden speaks to the nation on Afghanistan

John Fea   |  August 17, 2021

I appreciate Biden’s defense of the withdrawal last night. This is a very presidential speech. The buck stops with Biden and he comes across as a leader of conviction. As Current writer and historian John Haas wrote yesterday on my...

“Processing ten years of denial in ten hours is rough”

John Fea   |  August 16, 2021

I am still processing everything that happened in Afghanistan over the course of the last several days. At the moment, I am asking the same question everyone else is asking: Why didn’t Biden do a better job evacuating Americans and...

What should we make of today’s Supreme Court decision on religious liberty in New York?

John Fea   |  November 26, 2020

Today the Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision that the state of New York cannot limit attendance in houses of worship. Here is NPR: Gorsuch filed an unusually acerbic concurring opinion, blasting not only Governor Cuomo but also Chief...

Jesus HAS Vaccinated Us

John Fea   |  May 14, 2020

But not in the way some Christians think He has. Listen here to historian John Haas’s short coronavirus meditation....

Blame China? Jesus Doesn’t Play That Game

John Fea   |  April 9, 2020

Earlier today I wrote a post about how the court evangelicals were pushing Trump to exact revenge against China for its role in the spread of coronavirus to U.S. shores. Read it here. Christian historian John Haas recently published his...

Should Churches Speak-Out Against Trump in the Same Way that *Christianity Today* Has Done?

John Fea   |  December 24, 2019

John Haas of Bethel University (IN) responds on Facebook to my post “Civility and the Search for Common Ground Are Important, But Sometimes We Need a Prophetic Witness“: So, if this “spade” is what you say, is it enough for...

Beto O’Rourke: Churches and Religious Institutions Should Lose Tax-Exempt Status If They “Oppose Same Sex Marriage”

John Fea   |  October 11, 2019

Here is Democratic presidential candidate Beto O’Rourke on CNN last night: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iR02Kf4wS_0&w=560&h=315] Every Democratic candidate for President of the United States should be asked this question. I have always appreciated Beto’s sense of conviction, but I hope he rethinks...

The Fox News Crowd Doesn’t Like Obama’s Use of the Phrase “Easter Worshippers”

John Fea   |  April 25, 2019

Here is Obama’s tweet in the wake of the attacks on Sri Lankan Christians who were worshipping on Easter Sunday: The attacks on tourists and Easter worshippers in Sri Lanka are an attack on humanity. On a day devoted to...

“Maybe for a Moment There We Did Get Close to Being a Christian Nation”

John Fea   |  November 12, 2018

John Haas sends along the title of this post and the image below: Oklahoma City Times, November 12, 1918:...

This is Huuuuuuge! Believe Me!

John Fea   |  February 20, 2018

Forget about that Mark Noll endorsement.  This is bigly! Thanks, John Haas. Don’t forget to pre-order....

“Evangelicals are assuming that God is intent on investing the church with worldly security and strength”

John Fea   |  January 25, 2018

Dick Polman tweets: If, hypothetically, the WSJournal had outed Prez Obama for screwing a porn star and had unearthed a $130,000 hush payment; and if, hypothetically, it turned out that his ’08 campaign had been involved in the payment…how do...

More Thoughts on the U.S. Survey

John Fea   |  October 30, 2017

On Saturday we ran a post titled “How to Fix the U.S. History Survey Course: ‘Reimagine Everything.” One of the comments on that post came from veteran U.S. survey instructor John Haas, Professor of History at Bethel College in Indiana. ...

A Reader Responds to My Post on Russell Moore’s “Wall Street Journal” Piece on Religious Liberty

John Fea   |  February 7, 2015

John Haas is one of the many thoughtful readers of The Way of Improvement Leads Home, but unless you also follow me on Facebook you often don’t get to read his insightful commentary. (John seldom, if ever, posts in the...

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What we have said about guns and gun control over the years

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