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spiritual warfare

The “Ephesians 6:11” thesis of the assassination attempt on Donald Trump

John Fea   |  July 14, 2024

I’ve been hearing a lot of calls for national unity today. Those calling for such unity believe that Thomas Matthew Crooks’s assassination attempt of Donald Trump will somehow bring the country together. Even Trump’s staunchest critics have rightly condemned the […]

Charlie Kirk and Eric Metaxas on the Trump conviction: “We are up against pure evil”

John Fea   |  June 2, 2024

It seems that whenever the members of the Christian wing of the MAGA party suffer a loss, such as when their leader gets convicted on 34 felony charges–they turn to spiritual warfare. There is a certain logic to this move. […]

Eric Metaxas prepares pastors for a holy war

John Fea   |  September 14, 2023

Metaxas spoke last night at Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Faith event and issued a call for pastors to engage in a holy war: I am reminded of Russel Moore’s recent piece at Christianity Today: “Culture War is Not Spiritual Warfare.”

Why would Mastriano concede the election to Satan?

John Fea   |  November 9, 2022

As I write this at 1:30am ET, Doug Mastriano has yet to concede the election to Mastriano. The election wasn’t close. It will be difficult for Mastriano to make a case for election fraud. As I have already noted, Mastriano […]

The politics of spiritual warfare is clearly present in the Mastriano campaign

John Fea   |  May 17, 2022

Lately I’ve been reading a lot of Christian Right websites from the early 21st century and I am struck by the difference between the political rhetoric of evangelical politicians then and evangelical politicians now. In the early 2000s, evangelical politicians–George […]

Some Catholic priests are conducting exorcisms to dispel the evil spirits left by racial justice activists

John Fea   |  May 26, 2021

According to Audrey Clare Farley at The New Republic, some conservative Catholic priests believe they are engaged in a spiritual war against Black Lives Matter, Marxism, critical race theory, intersectionality, and wokeness. Here is a taste of her piece: Last […]