Person

John Fea

Bylines

Roads Not Taken

On the exit ramps Evangelicals ignored.

by John Fea via Commonweal on October 27, 2025
Revival and Revolution

A controversial historical claim grounds MAGA evangelicalism's embrace of the "Appeal to Heaven" flag.

by John Fea via Commonweal on July 2, 2024
In Florida, Teaching African American History Is Against the Law

The latest battlefield in the GOP’s “anti-woke” crusade.

by John Fea via Current (religion and democracy) on January 20, 2023
What We Can Learn From Early American Conspiracy Theories

How an Illuminati conspiracy theory captured American imaginations in the nation’s earliest days.

by John Fea via TIME on September 24, 2020
Evangelicalism and Politics

Four historians weigh in on evangelicals' affinity for Trump – and their commitment to the conservative movement more broadly.

by John Fea, Lerone A. Martin, Laura Gifford, R. Marie Griffith via The American Historian on November 30, 2018
Evangelical Fear Elected Trump

The history of evangelicalism in America is shot through with fear—but it also contains an alternative.

by John Fea via The Atlantic on June 24, 2018

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QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear

What they can teach us about what to expect.

by Daniel N. Gullotta via The Bulwark on February 25, 2021

The Roots of Evangelicals’ Political Fervor

White evangelical Christians are among President Trump’s most important supporters. But more than 40 years ago, they were on the margins of American politics.

via Retro Report on October 28, 2018

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