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by William Trollinger and Susan Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. We are grateful to the editors to republish it here. The 1925 Scopes trial, in which a Dayton, Tennessee, teacher was charged with violating state law...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
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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...
