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Evangelicals Already Had the Greatest Story in the World, Until They Revised It

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...

Josh Hawley’s Strange New Twist on Christian Nationalism

by Brian Taylor and Jeremy Fuzy Editor’s Note: Rev. Brian Kaylor is editor of Word&Way, and Dr. Jeremy Fuzy is Word&Way’s digital editor. This post appeared originally in Word&Way’s e-newsletter, A Public Witness, and is reposted here by permission....

Hell: Jesus, the Early Church, and Answers in Genesis

by William Trollinger Image of an unhoused person, via invisiblepeople.tv. And now, the final movement in my “Summer of 2024 Hell Quartet.” (For the first three movements, see: here, here, and here.) Ken Ham, Martyn Iles, and their compatriots at Answers in Genesis...

Ignorance is Bliss, or, The Joys of Not Thinking about Those Enduring Eternal Torment

by William Trollinger “The Cry of the Damned Souls in Hell,” produced by Holiness Revival Movement Worldwide A few years ago here at the University of Dayton a very bright evangelical graduate student took my M.A. class on Protestant Christianity. While we...