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Peter Wehner

The GOP is the party of “fear, hate, and grievances”

John Fea   |  August 2, 2022

Here is conservative commentator Peter Wehner at The Atlantic: Fear: If the hallmarks of Ronald Reagan’s speeches were optimism, hope, and a sense of limitless possibilities, Trump’s speeches are the antithesis. Trump is a genius at tapping into fear. In his...

Wehner: “No atheist has done this much damage to the Christian faith”

John Fea   |  May 25, 2022

David August “Augie” Boto, a member of the Executive Committee of the Southern Baptist Convention, referred to outcries of sexual assault victims as part of a “satanic scheme” to “distract us from evangelism.” After reading the report, Boto may want...

Anti-Trump Republicans will gather for the “Principles First” summit

John Fea   |  February 21, 2022

They will meet this weekend at the National Press Club. Speakers include Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Denver Riggleman, Geoff Duncan, Brad Raffensperger, Alexander Vindman, Joe Walsh, Barbara Comstock, Bill Kristol, Charlie Sykes, Tom Nichols, Peter Wehner, and Harry Dunn. Meanwhile,...

Trump needs to face the facts. He lost.

John Fea   |  February 8, 2022

Recently Fox News host Brian Kilmeade, a Trump supporter, said that the former president needs to stop wasting our time with claims that he won the 2020 election. But Trump won’t let it go. As Peter Wehner writes in The...

What does Russell Moore’s departure from the Southern Baptist Convention tells us about the state of American Christianity?

John Fea   |  June 8, 2021

The Southern Baptists are meeting in Nashville later this month and it is going to be a doozy! Stone vs. Mohler Critical race theory. Women in the church. Sexual-abuse cover-ups. Russell Moore. This sounds more like a soap opera than...

The New Republic postpones religion and politics forum. Replaces Eric Metaxas with Peter Wehner

John Fea   |  May 18, 2021

Last month I did a few posts on how The New Republic magazine was providing a platform for evangelical Trumper and conspiracy theorist Eric Metaxas. On April 5, 2021, I wrote about The New Republic‘s decision to publish a “debate”...

Wehner: The Republican Party is a threat to democracy

John Fea   |  April 27, 2021

Here is a taste of Peter Wehner‘s recent piece at The Atlantic: The Trump presidency might have been the first act in a longer and even darker political drama, in which the Republican Party is becoming more radicalized. How long...

Beth Moore apologizes for her past views on complementarianism

John Fea   |  April 8, 2021

Here is Yonat Shimron and Bob Smietana at Religion News Service: In a Twitter thread Wednesday (April 7), Moore took aim at complementarianism, the 20th century theological framework that argues men and women were created for different roles and that...

Adam Kinzinger: “The man who refused to bow”

John Fea   |  February 27, 2021

Another great piece on Illinois congressman Adam Kinzinger. Here is a taste of Peter Wehner’s piece at The Atlantic: If military service shaped Kinzinger in some important ways, Christianity has shaped him in others. Kinzinger was raised as an independent fundamentalist Baptist until...

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