I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~attributed to Etienne de Grellet~
On a Facebook group about higher ed that I belong to, a member asked us to share our favorite part of our jobs. There's a lot to love about this gig, but, for me, one of the best parts is getting to be part of a conversation with scholars whose work you admire. So that's... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the editors at Church History: Studies in Christianity and Culture for including God Hates among its recently reviewed books. It's an honor to get to see my work profiled in a journal long renowned for its contributions to scholarship on Christianity. (The most recent issue has an article on Dutch Calvinism that's just one of many great... Continue Reading →
Thanks to Kansas History for reviewing God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right in its most recent issue. From the review: The heart of the book is devoted to positioning the WBC on the antigay religious spectrum. Barrett-Fox cites potent antigay quotes from leaders of the Religious Right that are nearly identical to rhetoric from... Continue Reading →
Thanks to the American Journal of Sociology and reviewer Bernadette Barton of Morehead State University for reviewing God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right this month. I love both Pray the Gay Away: The Secret Lives of Bible Belt Gays and Stripped: Inside the Lives of Exotic Dancers (which is on my soc of sex syllabus for the summer!),... Continue Reading →
University Press of Kansas has been great to work throughout the process of bringing God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right to publication. Today, they've featured me in a meet-the-author profile. Thanks to Derek Helms for a great conversation about how my undergraduate years in central Pennsylvania helped prepare me to work with right... Continue Reading →
What a treat to see God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church American Nationalism, and the Religious Right reviewed in The Journal of Church and State, a favorite journal of mine. (Check out this month's article on covenant marriage and the Catholic church by Thomas More Garrett to see why.) The full review is available for free online, even if you don't... Continue Reading →
John Fea is one of my favorite Christian scholars--a historian by training, a great defender of the teaching and scholarship of history, and a person who, thankfully, takes his role as a public intellectual very seriously. He is also an astute political observer whose commentary on the 2016 election and, in particular, evangelical engagement with... Continue Reading →
Have you read The New Territory yet? It's devoted to "land, people and possibilities" of the lower Louisiana Purchase: Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri, and Arkansas and includes feature articles and literary pieces. A beautiful place deserves a beautiful magazine, and The New Territory is gift to us. The second issue has just been published, and... Continue Reading →
Rebecca Barrett-Fox 