Apr 29, 2024 | Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Areligious, Billy Graham, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, Christianity Today, Conservative Evangelicals, Conspiracy Theories, COVID-19, Cyrus, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Fox News, Franklin Graham, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Lance Wallnau, Mark Galli, Religious Non-Affiliation, Robert Jeffress, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals |
by Terry Defoe Educated at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia (BA, Sociology, 1978), Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon Saskatchewan (M.Div., 1982), and the Open Learning University, Burnaby British Columbia (BA, Psychology, 2003). Defoe...
Jul 23, 2021 | Areligious, Capitol Riot, Census of American Religion, Christian Right, Climate Change, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Immigration, Insurrection, James Heft, S.M., Jan Stets, Jerry Falwell Jr., Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jesus, LGBT Issues, Politics, Racism, Religion and Politics, Religious Non-Affiliation, Religious Rhetorics, White Evangelicals, White Jesus |
by William Trollinger Update: This post is republished over at Red Letter Christians on July 30, 2021. A participant in the January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol poses with a Bible. Image credit: John Minchillo/AP via Word and Way . The headlines tell the...
Mar 9, 2021 | Agnoticism, Areligious, Atheism, Christian Right, Empty Churches, James Heft, S.M., Jan Stets, Religious Non-Affiliation, Secularization |
by William Trollinger Book Cover for Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America, edited by James L. Heft and Jan E. Stets. Image via Oxford University Press. Perhaps the most remarkable feature of religion in 21st-century America is the rapid growth of those who are...
Sep 30, 2020 | Areligious, Empty Churches Project, James Heft, Jan Stets, King's College, McGowan Center for Ethics and Social Responsibility, Secularism, Secularization |
by William Trollinger Poster for the October 5, 2020 Hesburgh Lecture, “The Rise of Secularism in America.” Over the past few years I have been involved in a project of the Institute for Advanced Catholic Studies at University of Southern California...
Nov 28, 2019 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Areligious, Ark Encounter, Biblical Literalism, Creation Museum, Flood Geology, Jesus, Noah's Flood, Thanksgiving, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger “Cemetery of the Innocents” by cindy47452 is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 Susan Trollinger is Professor of English at the University of Dayton (UD), where she teaches courses in visual rhetoric, religious...
Jul 5, 2019 | Agnoticism, Areligious, Atheism, Certainty, Charles Taylor, Christian Right, Creationism, Culture War, David Ray Griffith, Dayton, Evangelicals, Francis Collins, Freeman Dyson, Fundamentalism, History, Ken Ham, Kenneth R. Miller, Politics, Religion and Science, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Rodney Kennedy |
by Rodney Kennedy 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 over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...