John Fea

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From Without Walls to the White House

1 week ago | christianitytoday.com | John Fea

Paula White-Cain leads the Faith Office.
From the Manhattan Elite to MAGA Populism

2 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | John Fea

Today's overtly political and unapologetically pro-Trump Eric Metaxas was once a winsome voice in New York City's evangelical intellectual renaissance. On May 1, President Donald Trump announced the creation of a new national Religious Liberty Commission in the US. Eric Metaxas is serving on it. He was not present in the Rose Garden for the signing of the executive order but expressed his appreciation to Trump on Instagram.
From Jesus Revolution to the White House

3 weeks ago | christianitytoday.com | John Fea

Greg Laurie is one of the surprising evangelical supporters of President Trump. FAME / Harvest MinistriesOn Wednesday before Easter, Greg Laurie walked in the darkness outside the White House after enjoying a dinner with President Donald Trump and a few dozen prominent evangelical leaders.
Goodbye to a Four-Year Labor of Love

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

We can now rest easy, knowing we gave it a shotIt was the evening of September 17, 2020â€”Constitution Day. I was sitting outside a Microtel Inn in Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania with Eric Miller, my longtime friend and collaborator and professor of history at nearby Geneva College. It was a chilly night, a clear sign that summer was on its way out. Iâ€™d come to Beaver Falls to deliver Genevaâ€™s Constitution Day lectures.
It's the last week of CURRENT

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Our little magazine closes-up shop at the end of the week, but not before our editors have a final say.
March 2025 - Current

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea |Nadya Williams

All four #1 seeds made the NCAA Division One Men’s Basketball Final Four this year. The last time that happened was in 2008. Malachi Van Tassell, the president of St. Francis University in Loretto, Pennsylvania, a team that made the […]Our little magazine closes-up shop at the end of the week, but not before our editors have a final say.
Did Patrick Henry really say "Give me liberty or give me death?"

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Here is Gregory Schneider at The Washington Post:Here’s what we know: On March 23, 1775 — probably in the afternoon — a self-taught lawyer named Patrick Henry arose in a little white church in Richmond and unleashed a scorching, wig-blasting, Flying V electric-guitar solo of a speech. It literally inspired the American Revolution. Here’s what we don’t know: Exactly what he said.
"The main divide in American politics today isn’t between liberals and conservatives or left and right. It’s between those who believe in the system and those who don’t."

2 months ago | currentpub.com | John Fea

Here is Shadi Hmid at The Washington Post:The main divide in American politics today isn’t between liberals and conservatives or left and right. It’s between those who believe in the system and those who don’t. And sometimes it really does feel like a matter of belief. It’s a visceral divide about whether basic institutions of American life — from the federal bureaucracy and financial markets to academia and the mainstream media — are working or broken.
A Christian Palestinian journalist worked on "Arab Sesame Street." He has things to say about Trump's cuts to USAID funding

Mar 8, 2025 | currentpub.com | John Fea

Daoud Kuttab is an award-winning Palestinian journalist and a graduate of Messiah University, the school where I teach American history. Some of you may remember his Current piece on the one year anniversary of the Gaza War. Here is a taste of his piece at The New Republic:When I was approached in 1994 by Lewis Bernstein of the Childrenâ€™s Television Workshop to participate in a joint Israeli-Palestinian production ofÂ Sesame Street,Â I was reluctant.
"If you oppose all tariffs, you are essentially signaling that you are comfortable with exploited foreign workers making your stuff at the expense of American workers."

Mar 7, 2025 | currentpub.com | John Fea

Chris DeLuzio represents Pennsylvania’s 17th Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives. Here is a taste of his piece at The New York Times:Many of my constituents support smart tariffs, particularly ones that target China, and so do I. Watching my colleagues on the Hill, it’s clear we’re missing the mark. Democrats need to break free from the wrong-for-decades zombie horde of neoliberal economists who think tariffs are always bad.