John Fea

According to this  Huffington Post/YouGov  poll, 32 percent of Americans would favor a Constitutional amendment that would make Christianity the official religion of the United States. 42 percent oppose such an amendment, with 32 percent “strongly” opposing the idea. It may . . . . Continue Reading »

The framers of the  North Carolina Constitution of 1776  made it abundantly clear as to what kind of people they wanted to serve in their new state government. Article 32 states: That no person who shall deny the being of God, or the truth of the Protestant religion, or the divine . . . . Continue Reading »

Some of you may remember  Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester at  Liberty University  and reflected on his experience in  The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner’s Semester at America’s Holiest University . Here is a . . . . Continue Reading »

Check out  Valerie Weaver-Zercher ’s great piece on Amish romance novels  at LA Review of Books . Weaver-Zercher is the author of  Thrill of the Chaste: The Allure of Amish Romance Novels  (John Hopkins UP). I must confess that I knew nothing about Amish romance novels . . . . Continue Reading »

My family and I raced home from a volleyball tournament in Philadelphia last night in order to catch the latest episode of  The Bible  on the History Channel. (Unfortunately we did not make it in time and decided,  cheeseheads  that we are, to wait until it is replayed so we can . . . . Continue Reading »

According to David Wheeler, author of a  recent post at the Atlantic , more and more Evangelical homeschooling parents want their children exposed to evolution. At least one publisher—- Christian Schools International  out of Grand Rapids, Michigan—-has responded with . . . . Continue Reading »

The rumors are true. David Barton’s story about children with guns in a nineteenth-century classroom came from  Bendigo Shafter , a Louis L’Amour novel. Readers of my blog  The Way of Improvement Leads Home  will recall a  post  I did earlier this month in which I . . . . Continue Reading »