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David Brooks: “God is good, omniscient, and omnipotent and yet somehow he seems to want Donald Trump to be re-elected”

John Fea   |  July 14, 2024

Current editor Eric Miller often sees things in American culture that others don’t see. That is why he is a great editor. After Thomas Matthew Crook’s assassination attempt on Donald Trump, Eric sent along this clip from the PBS News […]

The political folly of the Iowa State Fair

John Fea   |  August 15, 2023

Here is a PBS report on the GOP candidates in Iowa:

Episode 51: “The Politics of Tinky Winky”

John Fea   |  January 27, 2023

As animated programs for kids and adults become more inclusive, conservative evangelicals fight back. Episode 51: “’The Politics of Tinky Winky;’’ dropped today. Subscribers to Current at the Longshore level and above have access to new episodes of this narrative history podcast. Here is […]

The PBS News Hour remembers Michael Gerson

John Fea   |  November 19, 2022

I wrote my own reflection here. RIP.

WBCN (Boston) and “The American Revolution”

John Fea   |  November 16, 2021

Coming to a PBS station near you:

Live-tweeting PBS’s Billy Graham documentary

John Fea   |  May 18, 2021

As a historian of American evangelicalism, I thoroughly enjoyed last night’s PBS documentary “Billy Graham: Prayer. Politics. Power.” As as an evangelical Christian, I also enjoyed it. Billy Graham’s message–the Good News–changed my life. I will always have a deep […]