Sep 30, 2020 | Areligious, Empty Churches Project, James Heft, Jan Stets, King's College, McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, Secularism, Secularization |
by William Trollinger Poster for the October 5, 2020 Hesburgh Lecture, “The Rise of Secularism in America.” Over the past few years I have been involved in a project of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at University of Southern California...
Sep 25, 2020 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, God in a Nutshell, History, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Politics, QAnon, Racism, Slavery, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trey Smith, Vaccination, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Trey Smith’s The Coming Storm: A Donald J. Trump Documentary. Image via Youtube “Many, many soldiers . . . died for the freedom of many people of other shades and colors, some of whom were sold out by their own kinsmen and...
Sep 15, 2020 | Abortion, Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, BioLogos, Christian Colleges, Christian Statement on Science for Pandemic Times, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, COVID-19, Creation Science, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Evolution, Francis Collins, Georgia Purdom, Heidi St. John, Historical Science, Inerrancy, Ken Ham, Labor Unions, Noah's Flood, Observational Science, QAnon, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Savannah Maddox, Science, The Devil's Music, Vaccination |
by William Trollinger (with Susan Trollinger) “They are concerned about a virus that doesn’t kill very many people at all.” – Georgia Purdom, Answers in Genesis (AiG) “They are trying to manipulate me into getting a vaccine that I don’t believe in and don’t see any...
Sep 8, 2020 | AAUP, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Harold Heie, Inerrancy, John Fea, Liberty University, Messiah College, Secularism, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Harold Heie. Photo via Respectful Conversations It is absolutely true that, as John Fea likes to point out, not all evangelical colleges are the same. Not all evangelical schools have signed on to Ken Ham’s uninspiring list of Creation Colleges....
Sep 4, 2020 | Anthony Moore, Cedarville University, Higher Learning Commission, Sexual Violence, Thomas White, Todd Wilhelm, Turning Point USA, Xenia Gazette |
by William Trollinger Cedarville University President Thomas White. Photo courtesy of MinistryWatch.com A few days ago an incoming senior at Cedarville University wrote a letter to the local Xenia Gazette, explaining why she “disenrolled from Cedarville”: I received...
