Oct 26, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Emanuel AME Church, History, intolerance, KKK, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Redemption, Robert E. Lee, Slavery, Statement on Confederate Monuments, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger “Redemption.” In Christian theology, it is a powerful and hopeful term referring to the deliverance from sin and its consequences. But in the context of U.S. history, “Redemption” is a word that has much less positive connotations. Thursday night...
Oct 23, 2018 | Certainty, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Hillary Clinton, Identification, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Politics, Rhetoric |
by Camille Kaminski Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies....
Oct 19, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Architecture, Bill Nye, Church, Creation Museum, History, Jean Halgren Kilde, JJ Gill, Ken Ham, Margaret Grubiak, Materialism, Megachurches, Museums, Natural History, Religious Imagination |
by Margaret M. Grubiak Margaret Grubiak is an associate professor of architectural history in the Department of Humanities at Villanova University. Margaret’s scholarship, including her first book on the history of university chapels, focuses on twentieth-century...
Oct 17, 2018 | Certainty, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Evolution, Francis Collins, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Rhetoric, Richard Lischner, Richard Weaver |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Oct 13, 2018 | Andre Johnson, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Brett Kavanaugh, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Jim Wallis, Mark Masthay, Martin Medhurst, Red Letter Christians, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Everyone got woke in the 2016 election.” So said Andre Johnson – Assistant Professor of Rhetoric and Public Address at the University of Memphis – at the final keynote panel at last weekend’s Rhetoric and Religion in the 21st-Century Conference...
