Jul 29, 2022 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Capitalism, Christian Nationalism, Culture War, Genesis, Jesus, Joe Biden, Judgment, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, Noah's Flood, Secularism, The Conversation, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger According to Ken Ham, Joe Biden and his ilk are “The Enemy.” As it was in the days of Noah, so it is now. And damnation is coming. The year after Ark Encounter opened in 2016, Answers in Genesis (AiG) put out a booklet entitled A Pocket Guide to...
Jul 25, 2022 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Antony Alumkal, Camille Lewis, Capitalism, Christian Right, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Corwall Alliance, Creation Science, Culture War, E. Calvin Beisner, Economics of Climate Change, Fossil Fuels, Global Warming, Greenhouse Gases, Kathleen Wellman, Ken Ham, LGBT Issues, Man-made Climate Change, Politics, Religion and Politics, Wildfires |
by William Trollinger Over the past week there have been innumerable news reports on the increasingly dramatic effects of global warming: A firefighter walks in front of a huge blaze heading towards a home in Strawn, TX. Image via The Telegraph. From NPR: “This very...
Jul 19, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Cryptozoology, Culture War, Dragon Legends, Evangelical Education, Genesis, Hireath, History, History of Science, Ken Ham, Museum of the Bible, Natural History, Nazca Lines, Old Earth Creationism, Paul Thomas, Post-Truth, Pseudoarcheology, Reception Studies, Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Book Cover of Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and Museum of the Bible (T&T Clark, 2020). Paul Brian Thomas is Professor of Religious and Chair of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Radford. He...
Jul 14, 2022 | 1776 Commission, Abeka Books, American History, American Revolution, Ancient Greece, Andrew Carnegie, Apartheid, Capitalism, Catholicism, Christian Right, Christian Schooling, Christopher Columbus, Communism, Enlightenment, Evangelical Education, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Hijacking History, History, History of Science, Isaac Newton, Kathleen Wellman, McCarthyism, Native Americans, New Deal, Racism, Religion and History, Rhodesia, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Slavery, Socialism, Twelve Stones Academy, William McKinley |
by William Trollinger Book cover of Kathleen Wellman’s Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why it Matters (Oxford University Press, 2021) If you know anything about history, this post will make you laugh and/or cry. And/or make you...
Jul 8, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Bible, Biblical Illiteracy, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Cryptozoology, Genesis, Inerrancy, Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Museum of the Bible, Paul Thomas, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Science, Storytelling the Bible at the Creation Museum, Ark Encounter, and the Museum of the Bible, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Note: The following is taken (with slight edits) from the original version of my review, which appeared in the March 2022 issue Journal of the American Academy of Religion. Full citation information and a link to the article is included at the...
