Mar 4, 2025 | Adam Witherspoon, Adolf Hitler, AiG Finances, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Association of Baptists for World Evangelism, Bill Gruppen, Bodie Hodge, Chris Carpenter, Christian Nationalism, Cindy Gruppen, Culture War, Dan Phelps, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, K9 Training, Ken Ham, Kentucky State Police, Livingston Security Solutions, Marty Buffenbarger, Nutramax Laboratories, Officer Charity, Russell Coleman, Ryan Rought, Sexual Humanism, TACTICA Ministries, Tri-State Freethinkers, White Christian Nationalism, Wokeness |
by Dan Phelps Note: This article originally appeared at Panda’s Thumb. We are pleased to republish it here with the author’s and editor’s approval. Back in 2020, the Kentucky State Police (KSP) were embroiled in a controversy after it was discovered that a training...
Jan 9, 2025 | Academic Minute, Amish, Ark Encounter, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, David Weaver-Zercher, New Order Amish, Nostalgia, NPR, Old Order Amish, Pacifism, Selling the Amish, Tourism, Visual Rhetoric, White Christian Nationalism |
Susan Trollinger is Professor of English at the University of Dayton. Among other publications, she is the author of Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins, 2012). She is also co-author (with William Trollinger) of Righting America at the Creation...
Oct 29, 2024 | Andrew Dessler, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Atmospheric Science, Barry Bickmore, Biblical Science, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Economics of Climate Change, Environmental Science, Evangelical Environmental Network, Glenn Branch, James Bielo, Jessica DeFord, John R. Christy, Ken Ham, Man-made Climate Change, National Center for Science Education, Observational Science, Paleoclimatology, Paul Braterman, PragerU, Religion and Science, Ross McKitrick, Roy W. Spencer, Science, Secularism, Spencer Weart, Theoretical and Applied Climatology, Young Earth Creationism, Young Evangelicals for Climate Action |
by Glenn Branch Glenn Branch is deputy director of the National Center for Science Education, a nonprofit organization that defends the integrity of American science education against ideological interference. He is the author of numerous articles on evolution...
Aug 30, 2024 | Ark Encounter, Biblical Law, Christian Nationalism, Culture War, Dan Phelps, Doug Wilson, Fight Laugh Feast, Heath Druzin, Jemar Tisby, Jesus and John Wayne, Ken Ham, KKK, NPR, Patriarchy, Public Religion Research Institute, Republicans, Second Ku Klux Klan, University of Dayton, Voting Rights, White Evangelical Racism, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Screenshot of the Fight Laugh Feast 2023 Conference at Ark Encounter. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, 29% of Americans and 50% of Republicans are full-blown Christian nationalists or Christian nationalist sympathizers....
Jul 2, 2024 | A Gentler God, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Billy Graham, Conversion Formula, Doug Frank, Flood Narrative, Westboro Baptist Church, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “The Cry of the Damned Souls in Hell,” produced by Holiness Revival Movement Worldwide A few years ago here at the University of Dayton a very bright evangelical graduate student took my M.A. class on Protestant Christianity. While we...
Jun 18, 2024 | 3 Quarks Daily, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Flood Geology, Flood Narrative, Heaven, Hell, Noah, Noah's Ark, Noah's Flood, Paul Braterman, Statement of Faith, The Zone of Interest, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Placard from inside the Ark Encounter. Photo by Susan L. Trollinger. In my last post, I highlighted the ways in which the Noah family featured at the Answers in Genesis (AiG) tourist site, Ark Encounter, bears remarkable similarities to...
