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A professor at Messiah College in Mechanicsburg, John Fea, has focused much of his scholarly research on American Christianity and the ways in which it has shaped our national identity. He also is a ...

On the C-SPAN Networks: John Fea is a Professor for the History Department in the Messiah College with eight videos in the C-SPAN Video Library; the first appearance was a 2011 Forum as an Associate ...

In the wake of the shootings in El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, conservative evangelicals are offering many thoughts and prayers. These mass shootings, they preach, reveal the moral degradation of ...

What would it take for the majority of white evangelical Christians to vote for Hillary Clinton on Tuesday or, should she win, support her as President of the United States. But a Clinton detente with ...

CHICAGO (RNS) — As Constitution Day passed this month, popular evangelical Christian authors Eric Metaxas and John Fea discussed the topic on university campuses in the Chicago area. CHICAGO (RNS) — ...

The question posed by John Fea's Was America Founded as a Christian Nation?: A Historical Introduction continually vexes the American people and seems to drive the unending culture wars. Partisans ...

As a Christian evangelical and an American historian, John Fea, chairman of the history department at Messiah College in Pennsylvania, sought to understand why 80 percent of evangelicals voted for ...

Assuming that he existed and held the views imputed to him, Jesus Christ would not support Donald Trump. Donald Trump’s behavior, values, policies and their consequences are the opposite of what Jesus ...

Was America founded as a Christian nation? No, is John Fea's answer to the question posed in his title. But the answer is yes if we consider how Americans (especially from 1789 to 1865) understood ...

An evangelical historian searches for the roots of Trump-friendly evangelicalism. John Fea has two intended audiences for his new book, Believe Me: The Evangelical Road to Donald Trump. On the one ...

While the particulars of today's conspiracy theories may be new, the dynamics are not. They go all the way back to America’s earliest years. Advertisement Meta ...