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Like father, like son: Jeffrey Dahmer’s claims about evolution in light of Lionel Dahmer’s creationism

Dec 26, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Creation Ministries International, Creationism, Evolution, Glenn Branch, Jeffrey Dahmer, Kent Hovind, Lionel Dahmer, National Center for Science Education, Ronald Numbers, Young Earth Creationism | 3 comments

by Glenn Branch Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution...

100 years ago, the KKK planted bombs at a U.S. university – part of the terror group’s crusade against American Catholics

Dec 15, 2023 | A Fever in the Heartland, Anti-Immigration, Birth of a Nation, Black History, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Dayton, Harry Baujan, Johnson-Reed Act, KKK, Linda Gordon, Lynching, Second Ku Klux Klan, Society of Mary, Timothy Egan, University of Dayton, White Supremacy | 0 comments

by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at...

Before he was House speaker, Mike Johnson represented a creationist museum in court. Here’s what that episode reveals about his politics.

Dec 12, 2023 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bodie Hodge, Carl Weinberg, Christian Nationalism, Climate Change, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Culture War, Evolution, Freedom Guard, House Speaker, John Fea, Ken Ham, Marxism, Mike Johnson, Public Religion Research Institute, Red Dynamite, Righting America, School Shootings, Secularism, Social Evolution, Statement of Faith, Tax Breaks, The Lie, Young Earth Creationism | 2 comments

by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson takes questions from reporters at the Capitol in Washington on Nov. 14, 2023. AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Speaker of the House Mike...

Agency, Authority, and the Bible: What Has Happened to Evangelicals?

Dec 5, 2023 | Age of the Earth, American Democracy, Ark Encounter, Authoritarian Populism, Baptist Distinctives, Bible Reading, Biblical Illiteracy, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Demagoguery and Democracy, Donald Trump, Ellen Davis, Evangelical History, Evangelical Leaders, Evangelical Rhetoric, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Bible, James McClendon, Observational Science, Paul Combs, Religion and Politics, Richard Elliott Friedman, Rodney Kennedy, Science, University of Dayton | 0 comments

by Rodney Kennedy 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 he...