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In this video, I interview Prof. John Fea about his excellent book, Was America Founded as a Christian Nation? Fea is professor of history at Messiah College in Grantham, Pennsylvania.

Interview with John Fea, Author of “Was America…, posted with vodpod

You can read my review of Fea’s book here.

If you’d like to skip ahead to a particular question, here’s the time code:

• 00:00 Introduction
• 00:56 How’s the weather today in Grantham, Pennsylvania?
• 01:44 Why did you find it important to write this particular book on this particular topic at this particular time?
• 05:08 What do historians do? How is their perspective different from other people who ask questions such as the one your book asks?
• 08:49 Name a few advocates and books of Christian nationalists and the secularists who oppose them.
• 14:01 Walk us through the varieties of Christian nationalism that have appeared in American history.
• 21:02 There are multiple ironies in the history of the idea of Christian nationalism. Can you talk a bit about those?
• 28:36 Chapter 7 is titled “The Revolutionary Pulpit.” You argue that patriotic preachers used the Bible to support the revolutionary cause, but their use of it seems tendentious. Can you talk a bit about the revolutionary pulpit?
• 37:42 The relationship between church and state is one of the biggest flashpoints in the contemporary debate between Christian nationalists and secularists. Can you address the issue of the so-called “wall” between church and state?
• 45:40 Tell us about the religious beliefs of these Founders: George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson.
• 50:35 How do we justify slave ownership by Founders who considered themselves Christians?
• 52:53 Tell us about the religious beliefs of these Founders: John Witherspoon, John Jay, and Samuel Adams.
• 55:28 What books on the Founding Period, including this topic, would you recommend?
• 57:43 Upcoming events on MinistryDirect.com/live

In this ad, the National Republican Senatorial Committee asks Siri about the economic crisis and the Democrats’ response to it.

The ad is very clever. And effective. I’m sure Apple will send a cease and desist letter very soon.

Yet another excellent video from Reason TV…

In this video, Stephen Barr talks about the relationship between science and faith, from a Catholic perspective. Barr is professor of physics at the University of Delaware and author of Modern Physics and Ancient Faith.

Invades? I’m pretty sure they already lived there.

What makes this video is the ominous music and quotes from Karl Marx…

Text the letters “HPN” to 74574 to learn how you can act in faith to stop the execution of Iranian pastor, Youcef Nadarkhani.

Use the form on this site to email the Interests Section* of the Islamic Republic of Iran and urge that country’s leaders not to execute him.

Or call the Interests Section directly at (202) 965-4990.

* The United States and Iran do not have formal diplomatic ties. Hence, they have an “interests section” in Washington DC rather than an embassy.

I attended Prof. Kvanvig’s lecture on atheism at Evangel University last year, but I was unaware that the video had been posted until now. So, here’s the lecture:

By the way, I recently interviewed Prof. Kvanvig about his forthcoming book, Destiny and Deliberation. Here’s the video:

By the way, Kvanvig is not pronounced “Kwanvig,” as I say repeatedly in the interview. Both Vs should be pronounced.

In this episode of Uncommon Knowledge, Peter Robinson interviews David Berlinkski about his book, The Devil’s Delusion: Atheism and Its Scientific Pretensions.

This video is sure to offend someone, but if the right to free speech doesn’t encompass offensive speech, how is it free?

Apropos of this topic: “Cartoonist to be Tried for Insulting Islam.”