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“Stop filming me”: Influencing Christianity and Yesteryear

by Elise Abshire Elise Abshire is a graduate of the MA program in Theological Studies at the University of Dayton. Currently, she is finishing her PhD, and works at UD as a Grant Coordinator on a grant from the Lilly Endowment centered around creating and...

Life After Fundamentalism: Carl Ruby, Pierre Damas Bel, and Haitians in Springfield

by William Trollinger  Image of Pierre Damas Bel via CNN. On June 25 of this year the Supreme Court ruled that the federal government could end Temporary Protected Status for citizens of Haiti, thus allowing the government to deport them despite the reality that...

Reflections and Projections on American Feminism and Culture: An Interview with Gloria Steinem

by Susan Trollinger Gloria Steinem speaks at a rally in New York on Dec. 9, 1975. Image by Robert Walker for The New York Times. via CNN. In the spring of 1995, I received my PhD in rhetoric and communication from the University of Pittsburgh. That summer, I moved to...

The Melancholy, Outrage, Resentment, and Shame of MAGA Historians

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...