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Standing for Freedom Center

Four days after Memorial Day 2024 Trump says “we’re living in a fascist state”

John Fea   |  May 31, 2024

On the Friday following Memorial Day, Donald Trump said the the United States is a “fascist state.” Here is his “press conference”: Watch: Anyone who has watched Trump over the years should not be surprised by anything he said in […]

David French: “The Worst Scandal in American Higher Education Isn’t in the Ivy League.”

John Fea   |  October 22, 2023

When you have a free moment check out the website or twitter feed of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center. You will find articles with titles like this: “Why Young Evangelicals Are in Danger of Becoming Puppets for Climate Marxism.” […]

More from the “Evangelical Fearmongering 101” syllabus

John Fea   |  November 23, 2022

When Thomas Jefferson was running for president in 1800, Federalist evangelicals claimed that if the Virginian won the election he and his henchman would try to close their churches and confiscate Bibles from their homes. When Irish Catholics started arriving […]

What are the court evangelicals saying about Trump’s announcement last night?

John Fea   |  November 16, 2022

Unfamiliar with the term court evangelical? Read this. It is worth noting that Trump said nothing about evangelicals and very little about the moral issues they deem important during his speech last night. I did not see many court evangelicals […]

The director of Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center knows who we are. Is he rounding-up a posse and coming for us?

John Fea   |  February 13, 2022

Ryan Helfenbein’s Twitter bio says that he is a “Christ Follower,” a “Husband and Father,” and a “Texas native.” He also uses the Latin phrase “Soli Dei Gloria” (“glory to God alone”). Helfenbein holds a Master of Divinity degree from […]

Former Liberty University fellow and Trump lawyer Jenna Ellis helped plan the attempted undoing of the 2020 election

John Fea   |  November 15, 2021

Ellis was a former fellow at Liberty University’s Falkirk Center (now Standing for Freedom Center). Here is a taste of Libby Cathey’s piece at ABC News: In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark […]

Liberty University’s Standing for Freedom Center just released the summer issue of its journal “Reclaiming 1776.” Let’s take a look.

John Fea   |  August 29, 2021

Liberty University president Jerry Prevo begins the journal with a quote from John Adams: Before my God, I believe the hour has come. My judgement approves this measure, and my whole heart is in it. All that I have, and […]