Jan 11, 2021 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, 1861, American Exceptionalism, American History, Black Lives Matter, Capitol Riot, College of the Ozarks, Confederacy, Conservative Evangelicals, Daniel Immerwahr, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Insurrection, Jerry Davis, Joe Biden, Nicholas Kristof, Politics, Racism, Raymond Screws, Ronald Reagan, Slavery, The New York Times, Washington Post, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by Raymond D. Screws Raymond D. Screws earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2003. He also has an MA from Pittsburg State University and a B.A. from School (now College) of the Ozarks, where his advisor was William Trollinger. Throughout his...
Jan 5, 2021 | Ad Hominem Attacks, American History, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Civil War, Confederate Statues, David Blight, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Roles, Georgia Purdom, History, Jim Crow, Lost Cause Discourse, Reconstruction, Rhetoric, Righting America, Secession, Slavery, Visual Rhetoric, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger Statue of Robert E. Lee in Richmond, VA. Photo by Salwan Georges of The Washington Post (2020) The other day, I was reading David Blight’s fine book, Race and Reunion: The Civil War in American Memory, in preparation for a project that I am going...
Nov 25, 2020 | 1619 Project, American Exceptionalism, American History, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Fox News, History, Mayflower, Native Americans, Pilgrims, Politics, Slavery, Squanto, Thanksgiving, Tom Cotton, William Bradford |
by William Trollinger Senator Tom Cotton. Image courtesy of Newsweek. The masters of Twitter and the Blogosphere are once again dismantling Tom Cotton, Senator from Arkansas and Donald Trump wannabe. Cotton might have two Harvard degrees, but he is certainly proving...
Sep 25, 2020 | American History, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Intellectualism, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Black Lives Matter, Climate Change, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Darwin, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, God in a Nutshell, History, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Politics, QAnon, Racism, Slavery, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Trey Smith, Vaccination, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Trey Smith’s The Coming Storm: A Donald J. Trump Documentary. Image via Youtube “Many, many soldiers . . . died for the freedom of many people of other shades and colors, some of whom were sold out by their own kinsmen and...
Dec 31, 2019 | American History, Biblical Interpretation, Christianity Today, Church, Culture War, Dispensational Premillennialism, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Impeachment, James Graham, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jesus, Politics, Rodney Kennedy, Uncategorized, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
by Rodney Kennedy Evangelical Leaders Pray over Donald Trump. November, 2019. White House Photo. Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches...
Oct 18, 2019 | American History, Camille Lewis, Critical Race Theory, Hegemon, History, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Slavery, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by Camille Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Visiting Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies....
