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“The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”: A short history

John Fea   |  September 26, 2023

Over at Black Perspectives, historian Nico Slate reflects on the history of this famous phrase with a short analysis that spans from Theodore Parker to Martin Luther King Jr. to Barack Obama and beyond. Here is a taste of his...

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It Twitter goes away, “how will people find quick justice?”

John Fea   |  January 10, 2023

Here is a taste of Atlantic writer Kaitlyn Tiffany’s piece, “Twitter Was the Ultimate Cancellation Machine.” Whatever else it is, Twitter is a place where the average person can subject others to their displeasure. They have been mistreated by Southwest...

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Some justice for Breonna Taylor

John Fea   |  August 26, 2022

Here is Kenneth Walker, of Louisville, Kentucky: After nearly two and a half years, a person connected with the Louisville Metro Police Department has finally taken some responsibility for the death of my girlfriend, Breonna Taylor. Since March 13, 2020, I have...

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Religion does something that Instagram can’t

John Fea   |  March 18, 2021

Rabbi Juliana Karol gets it right in her letter to The New York Times. She is responding to this piece. . . . Entertainment suppresses the agency of its audience, rendering us passive observers. Faith is just the opposite, demanding...

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Teaching Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

John Fea   |  March 10, 2021

This is a revised and updated version of a post originally published on March 6, 2020: After a couple weeks focusing on “creation” in my Created Called for Community (CCC) course at Messiah University, we have shifted gears slightly to focus on the...

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Syndicate Symposium: “Sins and Virtues in American Public Life”

John Fea   |  September 15, 2020

Over at “Syndicate,” Dartmouth religion professor Jeremy Sabella has put together a symposium on the Seven Deadly Sins (lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride), the Four Cardinal Virtues (prudence, courage, temperance, and justice), and the theological virtues of...

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Court evangelicals on night 3 of the GOP convention

John Fea   |  August 27, 2020

Here is what the Bible-believing, born-again Christians who support Donald Trump are saying today: Let’s start with the Liberty University Falkirk Center crowd: Charlie Kirk believes that the Democrat concern over racial unrest and racial justice is politically motivated: Isn’t...

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Engaging with the latest stuff on race and the founders coming from Liberty University’s Falkirk Center

John Fea   |  July 18, 2020

Not all Christian colleges are the same. Some of you may recall a post in which I compared Messiah University to Liberty University. If you have a child considering a faith-based college I encourage you to read that post. Liberty...

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*Harper’s Magazine* publishes “A Letter on Justice and Open Debate”

John Fea   |  July 7, 2020

  This letter will appear in the October 2020 issue of Harper’s Magazine. Signers include Anne Applebaum, Margaret Atwood, David Blight, David Brooks, Noam Chomsky, Gerald Early, David Frum, Francis Fukuyama, Todd Gitlin, Anthony Grafton, David Greenberg, Jonathan Haidt, Michael...

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Tonight in the Rose Garden and at St. John’s Church, Trump Announced His 2020 Re-Election Strategy

John Fea   |  June 1, 2020

It’s hard to know where to start writing about what we all just witnessed earlier this evening. Donald Trump was scheduled to speak in the Rose Garden at 6:30pm. Shortly before his speech, Attorney General Bill Barr came out to...

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Fleming Rutledge on Advent Hope

John Fea   |  December 24, 2019

“The concept of justice is indeed central to the biblical portrait of the God who has revealed himself in his written Word and in the incarnate Word who is his Son.  However, the current use of ‘justice’ as a rallying...

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