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IN THE NEWS: Fea, Worthen, Santorum, and Civil Discourse
Three cheers for John Fea! Fea is an American historian and blogger. I’m a big of both his academic writing and his history-themed blog. Fea recently criticized a piece in the New York Times about...
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The Bible in Early America
Was early America Fundamentalist? Fundamentalists like to say that it was. Fundamentalists argue that America was always meant to be a Christian nation. To pick just one recent example, Presidential...
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Bible in America: RAH interview with Robert Alter
Fundamentalists don’t always make the best historians. American fundamentalists tend to insist on an American past that is far too rosy. When she was still an up-and-coming Presidential nomination...
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John Fea and Christian America
Messiah College historian and author of Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? John Fea posted a terrific article today. In his Anxious Bench piece, John Fea shares a series of intriguing glimpses...
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Shake Up at King’s College
If you look at the $30,000,000 box office sales for his film 2016: Obama’s America, it would seem that Dinesh D’Souza is very in. But at King’s College in Manhattan, D’Souza is out. According to a...
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Jesus and the Ivy League
Religious conservatives often insist that America’s colleges and universities used to be “our schools.” For example, Protestant fundamentalist educational writer A. A. “Buzz” Baker pointed out in the...
View ArticleIs Jerry Falwell an Idiot? Part Deux
If you bet for VHS against Betamax and won a billion dollars, what would you do with your loot? If you’re Jerry Falwell Jr., second-generation president of Liberty University in Virginia, you would...
View ArticleI Love You but You Didn’t Do the Reading
It happens. Every once in a while, especially in May, some of us leave our computer screens. Sure, we might smell a flower or two, but we miss the torrent of news stories that keeps flowing through the...
View ArticleI Love You but You Didn’t Do the Reading
As we Americans get ready to celebrate our nation’s heritage by blowing up some small portion of it, here are a few stories you might have missed: A new plea for an old idea: Nobel laureate explains...
View ArticleI Love You but You Didn’t Do the Reading
Your humble editor has been doubly distracted this week. My book about evangelical colleges is entering its final stages and I’ve been poring over copy-edits. Plus, we got to spend time with some...
View Article…still Think “Evangelical” Is Not a Political Label?
Albert Mohler can say what he wants. To this reporter, there is a much more obvious conclusion. For those of us who struggle to understand evangelical identity, another recent poll seems like more...
View ArticleI Love You but You Didn’t Do the Reading
Leaves are falling and campus speakers are speaking. What else is going on out there? Here’s our ILYBYGTH collection of stories of interest: Almost two-thirds of colleges/universities missed their...
View ArticleHistory, not Faith
Why do so many white evangelicals support President Trump? Not just in a passive, least-worst, anyone-but-Hillary sort of way, but actively and even enthusiastically? Why have some white evangelical...
View ArticleI Love You but You Didn’t Do the Reading
A holiday week didn’t slow down the news. Cussing from the Oval Office, aspirations from Oprah’s couch…it was a weird week. Here are some of the top ILYBYGTH-related stories: President Oprah? Rod...
View ArticleI Love You but You Didn’t Do the Reading
Another week, another flood of ILYBYGTH-themed stories. Thanks to everyone who sent in tips… What happens when computers grade essays, at Curmudgucation. Rednecks bridge the racial divide, at FPR....
View ArticleWhy Didn’t Jerry Falwell Jr. Say THIS Instead?
In this era of playground taunts and adolescent boasting, Jerry Falwell Jr. seems to feel right at home. Falwell complained recently that his Liberty University should still be considered the largest...
View ArticleThe Myth of Evangelical Political History Just Won’t Die
It happens sometimes. Academic historians think they have consigned a myth safely to long-deserved oblivion, only to see it pop up again and again. This time, New York Times journalist Clyde Haberman...
View ArticleThe Mess at Liberty U: Historians’ Perspectives
Even given everyone’s low expectations, the recent expose of Liberty University’s flim-flamming seems shocking. Alumnus Brandon Ambrosino accused Liberty of being a straight-up scam, not just a...
View ArticleScotsmen, Falwell, and Why Historians Can’t Define ‘Evangelicalism’
How is this possible? Have you seen the poll numbers? As I write this, when Katelyn Beaty asked on Twitter if the abominable evangelical Jerry Falwell Jr. was “an evangelical leader,” about...
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