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Judge Roy Moore

Pro-Life and Anti-Roy Moore

John Fea   |  December 17, 2017

Watch this: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLCY1AB5wwA&w=560&h=315] And now read this....

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80% of White Evangelicals in Alabama (who voted) Voted For Roy Moore Last Night

John Fea   |  December 13, 2017

Exit poll data In my view, the “values voters” in this election were non-evangelicals and African-American evangelicals.  The embarrassment for white evangelicals continues. A few tweets from last night: Something doesn’t seem right when a white evangelical candidate in Alabama...

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Roy Moore and the “Invisible Religious Right”

John Fea   |  December 8, 2017

The phrase “court evangelicals” has made it into in a New Yorker article.  Read Benjamin Wallace-Wells’s piece here. A taste: As Trump became more prominent, a few significant figures from the religious right arranged themselves as what the historian John Fea, of...

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Quote of the Day

John Fea   |  December 7, 2017

From Heather Wilhelm in The National Review: I’ll get this out the way: If you’re in Alabama and you want to vote for Roy Moore, vote for Roy Moore. But let’s at least try to keep things real: If you vote...

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Roy Moore Reminds Us When America Was “Great”

John Fea   |  December 7, 2017

It was during the era of slavery. Read all about in this piece at VOX. A taste: Alabama’s Republican candidate for Senate, Roy Moore, says America needs to be a bit more like it was when it had slaves. This...

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James Dobson Supports Roy Moore

John Fea   |  December 5, 2017

What has happened to this evangelical leader? [soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/359028626″ params=”color=ff5500″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Source And, just to remind everyone, here is what Dobson said about character in 1998....

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A Few Quick Thoughts on the Alabama Senate Race

John Fea   |  November 26, 2017

I contributed to this article at AL.com.  Also good to see Believe Me get its first plug. Here is a taste: At least two professors who are carefully watching the Senate race believe that let’s-just-win politics is taking a toll on...

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“Rank Hypocrisy”

John Fea   |  November 16, 2017

Marc Fisher of The Washington Post recently asked me for some thoughts on Roy Moore.  Here is a taste of his piece “For some evangelicals, a choice between Moore and morality.” Evangelicals are not alone in shifting their view of the role...

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The Roy Moore Case Offers a Glimpse into How Jerry Falwell Jr. Sees the World

John Fea   |  November 12, 2017

In a piece at The Washington Post published back in July, I wrote: Historians will write about this moment in terms of both continuity and change. On one hand, court evangelicals are part of a familiar story. For nearly half a century,...

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Why the Allegations Against Roy Moore May HELP His Political Career

John Fea   |  November 12, 2017

40% of Alabama evangelicals are now more likely to support Roy Moore after allegations that he sexually molested young girls.  Here is a taste of Carlos Ballesteros’s piece at Newsweek: Talk about loving the sinner! Nearly 40 percent of Evangelical Christians in Alabama...

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Gerson: Roy Moore Embraces the “Shabby, Third-Rate Gospel of Stephen K. Bannon”

John Fea   |  September 30, 2017

In his most recent column, Michael Gerson, the conservative evangelical columnist at The Washington Post, explains the Christian nationalism of Judge Roy Moore: But Moore represents a peculiar challenge to the GOP future. He holds to a particularly rigorous vision of...

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Beinart: Will the GOP Stand-Up to Roy Moore’s Anti-Muslim Prejudice?

John Fea   |  September 29, 2017

The Republican nominee for Jeff Sessions’s vacated Alabama Senate seat is a Christian nationalist who appears to see Muslim-Americans as second-class citizens.  Writing at The Atlantic, Peter Beinart wonders why Moore’s fellow Republicans are not condemning his views.  Here is a...

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More on Judge Roy Moore

John Fea   |  September 28, 2017

Roy Moore is going to keep people like me busy.  If he wins the Alabama Senate seat in December he will go to Washington and continue to make his historically misinformed Christian nationalist claims.  But in terms of politics, I...

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“Faith Facts” on Roy Moore

John Fea   |  September 28, 2017

He may be the next senator from Alabama.  Over at Religion News Service, Yonat Shimron provides five quick “faith facts” about Roy Moore: He is a Christian nationalist He was removed twice as chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court...

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Alabama Republicans May Have Just Sent a Christian Nationalist to the Senate

John Fea   |  September 27, 2017

If Judge Roy Moore is able to defeat his Democratic opponent in December, his ticket to the United States Senate will be punched.  Last night Moore defeated Luther Strange in an Alabama special election to fill Jeff Sessions’s old Senate...

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