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John Inazu

Stanley Hauerwas on the Christian church: “My sense is that God is making us leaner.”

John Fea   |  May 21, 2023

Longtime readers of this blog will know that I am a big fan of John Inazu’s work, especially his book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Until I read this interview at Inazu’s Substack, I did not realize...

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Is Wellesley College still a women’s college?

John Fea   |  March 15, 2023

In his 2017 book Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference, Washington University Law Professor John Inazu writes: Wellesley College, an all-women’s school, now confronts internal challenges around its growing transgender student population.  Even though Wellesley admits only women,...

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David French’s civic pluralism versus Al Mohler’s Christian nationalism

John Fea   |  November 22, 2022

Last week, the Senate advanced the Respect for Marriage Act. The bill legalizes (“provides statutory authority” for) same-sex and interracial marriages. Here is a summary of the bill from Congress.Gov: Specifically, the bill repeals and replaces provisions that define, for...

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John Inazu on the anti-woke victory at Grove City College

John Fea   |  April 25, 2022

John Inazu teaches law at Washington University in St. Louis. He is the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2016) and (with Tim Keller) Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of...

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InterVarsity director at Harvard explains why he voted for the atheist president of the university’s chaplains

John Fea   |  September 3, 2021

Get up to speed here. Pete Williamson is the team leader for InterVarsity’s Graduate and Faculty Ministries at Harvard and a Harvard Chaplain. Here is a taste of his recent piece at Christianity Today: For seven years, I have worked...

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2021: What should we expect on the religion scene?

John Fea   |  January 5, 2021

I recently joined Engy Abdelkader, Jill Jacobs, John Inazu, Johnnie Moore, Gerardo Marti, David Gibson, Andre Henry, Asma Uddin, Robin Fretwell Wilson, and Jonathan Calvillo in thinking about what we can expect on the religious scene in 2021. Thanks to...

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Francis Collins of the National Institutes of Health calls churches to go back to remote services

John Fea   |  December 4, 2020

The courts may be on the side opening churches, but Francis Collins, an evangelical Christian and director of the National Institutes of Health, does not think it is a good idea. Here is NPR: With COVID-19 hospitalizations and deaths at […]

Faith leaders call for a “free and fair election”

John Fea   |  October 28, 2020

Here is the statement: We join together as leaders of faith across political, religious, and ideological differences to affirm our commitment to a free, fair, and safe election. The values of our faith traditions inform our dedication to this cause....

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John Inazu: “shutdown orders shouldn’t exempt religious gatherings, and those communities should comply”

John Fea   |  March 18, 2020

John Inazu is a professor of law and religion at Washington University in St. Louis and the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference. Here is a taste of his recent piece at The Atlantic:  What is a...

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John Inazu’s Advice for White Evangelicals

John Fea   |  February 12, 2020

Inazu teaches law at Washington University in St. Louis.  He is the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference and the forthcoming (with Tim Keller) Uncommon Ground: Living Faithfully in a World of Difference. Here is a taste of...

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Can Any of the Democratic Candidates Appeal to Evangelicals?

John Fea   |  January 30, 2020

Here is a taste of my recently published piece at Religion News Service: Do the current Democratic candidates for president have any chance of winning evangelicals in November 2020? Probably not. Of the candidates left in the Democratic primary race,...

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Thoughts on a Discouraging Weekend

John Fea   |  October 13, 2019

I was on Fall Break this weekend and probably spent way too much time reading and watching the news, following the Values Voter Summit, and tweeting.  With the exception of the beautiful central Pennsylvania weather, I  leave the weekend pretty...

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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...

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Duke University Rejects Young Life

John Fea   |  September 16, 2019

Universities like Duke claim to be bastions of free speech, inclusion, and pluralism, but they tend to define these commitments very narrowly.   For example, the student government at Duke recently rejected Young Life‘s official status on campus because the Christian...

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What is Going on at the University of Iowa?

John Fea   |  September 29, 2018

The administration of the University of Iowa does not want a Christian student group called Business Leaders in Christ (BLinC) on campus because they do not permit LGBT students to hold leadership positions.  After de-registering BLinC as an official student...

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What Does the Trump Administration Mean by “Religious Freedom?”

John Fea   |  August 23, 2018

At the State Department’s recent “Ministerial to Advance Religious Freedom,” Attorney General Jeff Sessions claimed that there is a “dangerous movement, undetected by many” that is “challenging and eroding our great tradition of religious freedom.”  This “dangerous movement,” Sessions added,...

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John Inazu Still Believes in Confident Pluralism

John Fea   |  August 13, 2018

Inazu is the Sally D. Danforth Distinguished Professor of Law & Religion at Washington University Law School.  He is the author of Confident Pluralism: Surviving and Thriving Through Deep Difference.  That book was published two years ago and Inazu continues to...

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What Happens When a Culture Warrior and a Confident Pluralist Exchange Tweets About Trump’s Border Wall?

John Fea   |  July 9, 2018

Last week I did a post on evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem’s biblical defense of Donald Trump’s border wall. Here is what a couple of smart people tweeted about Grudem’s defense of the wall: I admire much of Wayne Grudem’s work....

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What Looms on the Horizon for Christian Colleges?

John Fea   |  January 18, 2018

Over at First Things, church historian Carl Trueman argues that Christian colleges need to prepare financially for a bleak future in a post-Christian age.  He writes: The specific point of conflict is likely to be (once again) Title IX legislation that...

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The Nashville Statement is a Disaster

John Fea   |  September 1, 2017

  It is a disaster for all the reasons Chris Gehrz makes clear in his post today at The Pietist Schoolman.  (I should add the title of this post is mine). The so-called “Nashville Statement” is indeed “theology for the...

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