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A national conservative defines “national conservatism” as an effort to “legislate toward a Protestant vision” for America

John Fea   |  August 15, 2022

The so-called “national conservatives” are meeting next month in Miami. Speakers include Florida governor Ron DeSantis, Missouri senator Josh Hawley, political scientist Yoram Hazony, First Things editor R.R. Reno, historian Wilfred McClay, and Southern Baptist seminary president Albert Mohler (we...

The Author’s Corner with Janet Moore Lindman

Rachel Petroziello   |  June 9, 2022

Janet Moore Lindman is Professor of History and Chair of the History Department at Rowan University. This interview is based on her new book, A Vivifying Spirit: Quaker Practice and Reform in Antebellum America (Penn State University Press, 2022). JF:...

The Author’s Corner with Dana Logan

Rachel Petroziello   |  May 9, 2022

Dana Logan is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at UNC Greensboro. This interview is based on her new book, Awkward Rituals: Sensations of Governance in Protestant America (University of Chicago Press, 2022). JF: What led you to write Awkward Rituals?...

The Author’s Corner with Gene Zubovich

Rachel Petroziello   |  March 14, 2022

Gene Zubovich is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Buffalo. This interview is based on his new book, Before the Religious Right: Liberal Protestants, Human Rights, and the Polarization of the United States (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2022). JF:...

Is there a link between complementarianism and the proper evangelical response to mask wearing?

John Fea   |  September 6, 2021

Some evangelical groups facing mask mandates in their local school districts are sharing sample religious exemption forms that their fellow evangelicals can use. Here is one that came across my feeds today: I, _________, hereby state that I have chosen...

Commonplace Book #198

John Fea   |  August 25, 2021

However much the United States has been a moral or religious nation guided by (individual) impulses of spirit and conscience, it has also seen repeated mergers, or confusions, of religious and material intentions. One would be hard-pressed to argue that...

How do Christian nationalists deal with the Establishment Clause?

John Fea   |  June 22, 2021

Recently, a scholar in another discipline asked me how Christian nationalists who study the American past “ignore, navigate around, or distort the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment.” I address this in Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A...

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