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Looking In From the Outside: Evangelical Colleges and Donald Trump

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...

The Perilous Challenge of Keeping Evangelical Colleges Safely Orthodox

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...

The Evolution of Creationism in American Higher Education: Part 2

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...

Sealing the Creationist Bubble

by William Trollinger Sometimes this blog writes itself. Sometimes our friend Adam Laats writes it for us. A few days ago, Ken Ham announced that Answers in Genesis (AiG) would be joining with another fundamentalist organization to open the Twelve Stones Christian...