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Six Smart Responses to the Wedding of White Evangelicalism and the Political Right

Nov 29, 2018 | American Historian, Christian Right, Christianity Today, Elesha Coffman, John Fea, Laura Jane Gifford, Lerone Martin, Politics, R. Marie Griffith, Rodney Kennedy, White Evangelicals | 0 comments

by William Trollinger We have said it again and again, but the emergence of the Christian Right as the GOP’s most reliable constituency AND then – most dramatically – the election of Donald Trump as president has resulted in all sorts of very smart people looking...

Incest Used to be Ok. Gay Marriage Never Was.

Nov 20, 2018 | Age of the Earth, Answers in Genesis, Artistic License, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Diorama, Gay Marriage, Heteronormativity, Incest, LGBT Issues, Righting America | 0 comments

William Trollinger For Righting America we were determined to read the Creation Museum as a text, taking the time to understand the messages that the museum is conveying. Toward that end, I visited the Creation Museum eight times, and Sue seven. Some aspects of the...

Righting and Wronging America at the Creation Museum

Nov 16, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Culture War, Flood Geology, Genesis, Historical Science, Inerrancy, KKK, Meghan Henning, Museums, Observational Science, Rhetoric, Righting America, Science, University of Dayton | 0 comments

by William Trollinger What will happen to museums in this post-truth age? Is there a productive way in which to respond to culture war rhetoric? These were but two of the questions Sue and I were asked in response to our presentation last Wednesday on “Righting and...