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What is going on with Tony Evans?

John Fea   |  January 28, 2022

Last summer we called attention to Dallas-area megachurch pastor Tony Evans’s efforts at racial reconciliation. He called it “Kingdom Race Theology.” As I wrote then: “First, Evans clearly believes in systemic racism and the value of critical race theory. Second,...

The long history of medical misinformation

John Fea   |  September 29, 2021

Historian Nicole Hemmer writes, “the deliberate spread of demonstrably untrue claims for politics or profit has been a feature of life in the US throughout the nation’s history. From patent medicine to fluoride conspiracies to false claims about the health...

The Author’s Corner with Eric Herschthal

Rachel Petroziello   |  September 6, 2021

Eric Herschthal is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah.  This interview is based on his new book The Science of Abolition: How Slaveholders Became the Enemies of Progress (Yale University Press 2021). JF: What led you to write The Science...

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John Fea   |  September 4, 2021

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Do Americans still believe in the common good?

John Fea   |  August 23, 2021

It’s a fair question. Here is Kentucky-based writer Silas House at The Atlantic: Refusing to sacrifice for the common good is an American problem, not just a Kentucky one; opposition to masking and vaccination is happening in such disparate places...

John Polkinghorne, RIP

John Fea   |  March 31, 2021

A couple weeks ago I was part of a Messiah University Zoom event in which several faculty members shared their spiritual pilgrimages. (Annie Thorn of “Out of the Zoo” fame organized the event). One of my co-panelists was Ted Davis,...

Eric Metaxas: “Don’t get the vaccine. Pass it on”

John Fea   |  March 30, 2021

We will see if Metaxas has more to say about this on his radio show It looks like the old court evangelicals are divided over whether to get the vaccine. It appears Metaxas wants to tap into the crowd that...

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Episode 51: “The Politics of Tinky Winky”

January 27, 2023 By John Fea

He was Florida’s professor of the year in 2006. Today his courses would be illegal.

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