Sep 30, 2025 | Anti-Gay Hate, Casey Ryan Kelly, Certainty, Conservative Evangelicals, Critical Race Theory, Cruel Optimism, Demagoguery, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, Flannery O'Connor, MAGA, Paul Elliott Johnson, Pete Hegseth, Religion and Politics, Robert E. Terrill, Rodney Kennedy, Salvation, Sardis, Secularism, Shannon Sullivan, Sheol, Toxic Masculinity, Trump Supporters, White Men |
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...
Sep 23, 2025 | Charleston Shooting, Charlie Kirk, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, Domestic Terrorism, Foreign Terrorist Organization List, Global Terrorism Database, Hate Crimes, Melissa Hortman, Political Extremism, Political Violence, Right-Wing Extremist Violence, Seattle May Day Protests, Stephen Miller, Tree of Life Synagogue, Tyler Robinson |
By Art Jipson and Paul J. Becker Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to republish it here. Paul Campbell, iStock / Getty Images Plus After the Sept. 10, 2025, assassination of conservative political activist...
Sep 16, 2025 | Anti-Abortion, Anti-Semitism, Charlie Kirk, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Feminism, Gun Violence, Higher Education, Indoctrination, Kari Lake, Nick Fuentes, Political Extremism, Political Rhetoric, September 11th, Tucker Hoffmann, Turning Point USA, White Evangelicals |
by Tucker Hoffmann Tucker J. Hoffmann is a Graduate Student at the University of Georgia achieving his master’s degree in communication studies through the Rhetorical Studies program. Tucker started studying Charlie Kirk and his organization, Turning Point USA,...
Sep 9, 2025 | Anti-Defamation League, Anti-Racism, Booker T. Washington, Censorship, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Democracy, Eugenics, Jerry Bergman, Reconstruction, Scopes Trial, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Teddy Roosevelt, The Bible and Creationism, Vietnam War, White Supremacy, William Jennings Bryan |
by William Trollinger People gathering at the lynching of Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith in Marian, Indiana, 1939. Image via NPR. Jerry Bergman is at it again. And it’s as bad as ever. A prolific writer for the Answers Research Journal and similar creationist outlets,...
Sep 2, 2025 | American History, Butler Act, Charles Darwin, Clarence Darrow, Dayton, Evolution, Glenn Branch, Herbert Wendt, History of Science, In Search of Adam, Inherit the Wind, Jerry Bergman, John Scopes, Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette, Misinformation, National Center for Science Education, Raymond Dart, Science Education, Science Service, Scopes Trial, The Other Side of the Scopes Trial, Walter White, Watson Davis |
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...
