Slaves Should Have Stayed Put on the Plantation: Al Mohler’s “Apology”
by William Trollinger Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. April 27, 2006. Photo Credit: james.thompson via Wikimedia Commons. Southern Baptist fundamentalists are not having a good time of it these days. There is, for example, the ongoing...The Day That Young Earth Creationists Tend to Forget
by Susan L. Trollinger “Elohim Creation” by FotoGuy 49057 is licensed under CC BY 2.0 (Via Flikr) One of the things I have learned over the years as a rhetorical critic—it’s really a simple insight—is that what does not appear in, say, a speech, an...Take the Young Earth Creationist Quiz Used in a Kentucky School
by William Trollinger An acquaintance passed along to Dan Phelps a quiz – displayed below – that was given to pre-high school students at a private school in rural Kentucky. If you find this young Earth creationist quiz ludicrous, please understand that the logic...John Hagee and the Evolving Basis for Christian Zionism
by Daniel G. Hummel Daniel G. Hummel works at Upper House, a Christian study center on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and is an honorary research fellow at UW-Madison. He is the author of Covenant Brothers: Evangelicals, Jews, and U.S.-Israeli...Teaching the Bible in Public Schools: A Bad Idea . . . for Conservatives
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)...Connect with:
