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...
Jun 11, 2024 | Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Artistic License, Auschwitz, Flood Narrative, Hannah Arendt, Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis, Nazi Germany, Nazism, Noah, Noah's Flood, The Zone of Interest, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Still photo from of The Zone of Interest (2023), directed by Jonathan Glazer. Image via bookandfilmglobe.com. The Zone of Interest will be on my mind for a long, long time. This powerfully disturbing film about the Holocaust (perhaps the best I...
May 20, 2024 | Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, Artistic License, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Evangelical Rhetoric, Fundamentalism, Noah, Noah's Flood, Religious Rhetorics, University of Dayton, Visual Rhetoric, Young Earth Creationism |
Compiled by Susan Trollinger University of Dayton students visit Ark Encounter. Image by Susan Trollinger, 2024. This spring, I taught a class in which we devoted a unit to studying the arguments and visual/material rhetorics of Protestant fundamentalism. We enjoyed...
Mar 27, 2024 | Allosaurus, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Bill Nye, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Donald Trump, Flood Geology, Genesis 1-11, Henry Morris, Heritage USA, Jim Bakker, John C. Whitcomb, Ken Ham, Lighthouse Ranch, Noah's Flood, Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel, Righting America, Scopes Trial, Selling the Amish, Steve Burgess, The Genesis Flood, The Tyee, Young Earth Creationism |
Cover for Steve Burgess’ forthcoming book Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel. Below is an excerpt from Steve Burgess’ forthcoming book, Reservations: The Pleasures and Perils of Travel, which will be published by Douglas and McIntyre, and...
