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No surprise that 32% of Americans want a Christian constitutional amendment

John Fea

According to thisย  Huffington Post/YouGov ย poll, 32 percent of Americans would favor a Constitutional amendment that would make Christianity the official religion of the United States. 42 percent oppose...

North Carolina Republicans Want to Create a Christian Establishment

John Fea

The framers of theย  North Carolina Constitution of 1776 ย made it abundantly clear as to what kind of people they wanted to serve in their new state government. Article...

North Carolina Republicans Want to Create a Christian Establishment

John Fea

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Is Liberty University Going Liberal?

John Fea

Some of you may rememberย  Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester atย  Liberty University ย and reflected on his...

Bonnet Rippers: Valerie Weaver-Zercher on the Amish Romance Novel

John Fea

Check outย  Valerie Weaver-Zercher ’s great piece on Amish romance novelsย  at LA Review of Books .ย Weaver-Zercher is the author ofย  Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish...

Historians Criticize History Channelโ€™s โ€œThe Bibleโ€

John Fea

My family and I raced home from a volleyball tournament in Philadelphia last night in order to catch the latest episode ofย  The Bible ย on the History Channel. (Unfortunately...

Are Evangelical Homeschoolers Embracing Evolution?

John Fea

According to David Wheeler, author of aย  recent post at the Atlantic , more and more Evangelical homeschooling parents want their children exposed to evolution. At least one publisherโ€”-...

David Barton, Louis Lโ€™Amour, and the Use of Historical Evidence

John Fea

The rumors are true. David Barton’s story about children with guns in a nineteenth-century classroom came fromย  Bendigo Shafter , a Louis L’Amour novel. Readers of my blogย  The...