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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...
Aug 27, 2026 | 17th Amendment, 19th Amendment, Albert Mohler, American History, Anti-Catholicism, Anti-Immigration, Brian Kaylor, Brooks Potteiger, Church and State, Citizenship, Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches, Confederacy, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Doug Wilson, Islamophobia, Jared Longshore, Joe Rigney, Paul Miller, Pete Hegseth, Religious Discrimination, The Religion of American Greatness, White Christian Nationalism, Word&Way, Zohran Mamdani |
By Brian Kaylor Editor’s Note: Rev. Brian Kaylor is editor of Word and Way. This post appeared originally in the Word and Way enewsletter, A Public Witness, and is reposted here by permission. Doug Wilson, a Christian Nationalist pastor in Idaho and a self-described...
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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...
May 15, 2026 | Adolf Hitler, Anti-Immigration, Biblical Interpretation, Caesar, Church and State, Donald Trump, First Baptist Church of Dallas, Georges Florosky, John Fea, MAGA Preachers, Paul, Pope Leo XIV, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Romans 13, Stanley Hauerwas |
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...
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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...
Aug 12, 2025 | Anti-Immigration, Barack Obama, Culture War, Dana White, Donald Trump, Evangelical Rhetoric, History, January 6, 2021, Kamala Harris, MAGA, Martin Luther King, Jr., Parrhesia, Rodney Kennedy, Sermon on the Mount, South Park, Trump Supporters, Trump Truth, Ukraine, White Evangelicals |
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...