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

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...

North Carolina Republicans Want to Create a Christian Establishment

John Fea

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...

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 remember  Kevin Roose . In 2007, as a student at Brown University, he went undercover for a semester at  Liberty University  and reflected on his...

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

John Fea

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...

Historians Criticize History Channel’s “The Bible”

John Fea

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...

Are Evangelical Homeschoolers Embracing Evolution?

John Fea

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—-...

David Barton, Louis L’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 from  Bendigo Shafter , a Louis L’Amour novel. Readers of my blog  The...