Apr 13, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalist U, University of Dayton |
by William Trollinger If you want to understand why 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, schools are a very good place to start. Here at the University of Dayton (UD) approximately 60 people – faculty and students from UD as well as from local evangelical...
Apr 9, 2018 | Adam Laats, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalist U, Taylor University, University of Dayton, Wheaton College |
by Adam Laats Adam Laats is Professor of Education and History (by courtesy) at Binghamton University (State University of New York). His most recent book – which just came out – is Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education (Oxford UP). His...
Feb 1, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Right, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, KKK |
by William Trollinger In our recent Q/A with Adam Laats about his newly-released book, Fundamentalist U, he pointed out that In order to survive, [evangelical] schools have had to maintain reputations as both guardians and teachers of a necessarily vague dream of...
Jan 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, White Evangelicals |
by Adam Laats with William Trollinger Adam Laats’ eagerly anticipated book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, comes out next week from Oxford University Press. We have posed a few questions for Adam about his book, and in this post and...
Jan 25, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Guaranteed Pure, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, Tim Gloege, White Evangelicals |
by Adam Laats with William Trollinger Adam Laats’ eagerly anticipated book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, comes out next week from Oxford University Press. We have posed a few questions for Adam about his book, and in this post and...
Sep 7, 2017 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Evolution, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, Ken Ham, Righting America, Science |
by Adam Laats Today, our colleague Adam Laats continues his exploration of the history of young earth creationism as a doctrine of evangelical colleges and universities. As he demonstrates below, in the last century creationist colleges have wrestled with many...
