May 30, 2023 | Anti-Asian Violence, Appalachia, Asian American & Pacific Islander Month, Asian Americans, Catholic Missionary, COVID-19, Glenmary Home Missionaries, Prejudice, Racism |
by Br. Thomas Nguyen, G.H.M. Roan Mountain, Tennessee. Image by Daniel Martin via Wikimedia Commons Br. Thomas is a brother of The Glenmary Home Missionaries, a community that ministers to rural populations in the United States. He is a second-year Pastoral Ministry...
May 17, 2023 | A Secular Age, Adolf Hitler, American Democracy, American History, Biblical Literalism, Charles Taylor, Conservative Evangelicals, Dissent, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Gardner Taylor, Global Warming, Goldwater Rule, Good and Evil in the Garden of Democracy, History and Politics, Hospitality, How (Not) to be Secular, James K. A. Smith, January 6, 2021, Kenneth Zagacki, LGBTQ+ Rights, Metaphor, Parrhesia, Political Rhetoric, Religion and History, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Secularism, Stanley Hauerwas, The Creative Power of Metaphor, The Immaculate Mistake, Trump Supporters, Vaclev Havel, Walt Whitman, White Evangelicals, Women's Rights |
by William Trollinger Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which...
May 10, 2023 | Book Banning, Evangelical Education, Jemar Tisby, Jewerl Maxwell, Julie L. Moore, Lynching, Marion Community Remembrance Project Coalition, Marion, Indiana, PEN America, Safe Schools, Systemic Racism, Taylor University, White Evangelical Racism, White Fragility |
by William Trollinger Photograph from the 1930 Lynching in Marion, Indiana. White fragility is really a thing. When pressed, Taylor University’s provost, Jewerl Maxwell, explained to writing professor Julie Moore that the specific reason she was being fired had to do...
May 4, 2023 | Bob Jones University, Cedarville University, Evangelical Education, Jemar Tisby, Jewerl Maxwell, Julie L. Moore, Michael Lindsay, Mike Pence, Racial Justice, Racism, Safe Schools, Sexual Abuse, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Taylor University, The Color of Compromise, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Entry to Taylor University in Upland, Indiana. Image via Star 106.9. As one who taught for eight years at a “moderate” evangelical university, I speak from personal experience when I say that the gap between so-called moderate evangelical schools...
