Dec 7, 2020 | Cedarville University, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Immigration, Madison Cawthorn, Politics, Sarah Jones, Sexual Violence, Trump Supporters, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Evangelical leaders pray over Trump in the Oval Office. Photo via The Chicago Tribune (2017). “What does it profit a faith to gain a whole country and then lose it, along with its own soul?” (Sarah Jones) Four years ago, just after the...
Oct 28, 2020 | Answers in Genesis, Biblical Literalism, Bill Nye, Cedarville University, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Science, Culture War, Donald Trump, Donovan Schaefer, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelicals, Historical Science, Inerrancy, Josh Gunn, Ken Ham, Mark Noll, Observational Science, Politics, Populism, Religion and Science, Science, Scopes Trial, The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
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)...
Sep 8, 2020 | AAUP, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Harold Heie, Inerrancy, John Fea, Liberty University, Messiah College, Secularism, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Harold Heie. Photo via Respectful Conversations It is absolutely true that, as John Fea likes to point out, not all evangelical colleges are the same. Not all evangelical schools have signed on to Ken Ham’s uninspiring list of Creation Colleges....
Sep 4, 2020 | Anthony Moore, Cedarville University, Higher Learning Commission, Sexual Violence, Thomas White, Todd Wilhelm, Turning Point USA, Xenia Gazette |
by William Trollinger Cedarville University President Thomas White. Photo courtesy of MinistryWatch.com A few days ago an incoming senior at Cedarville University wrote a letter to the local Xenia Gazette, explaining why she “disenrolled from Cedarville”: I received...
Aug 14, 2020 | Anthony Moore, Aristotle, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Heteronormativity, Jerry Falwell Jr., Kenneth Burke, Liberty University, Rodney Kennedy, Secularism, Thomas White |
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...
Aug 11, 2020 | Anthony Moore, Biblically Consistent Curriculum, Cedarville University, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Fundamentalism, Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University, Patriarchy, Sexual Harassment, Sexual Violence, Thomas White, Title IX, William Bell Riley |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger One of the primary reasons that some 46,000 undergraduates attend Liberty University is that the institution obliges all of its students to adhere to a set of rules called “The Liberty Way.” That means that in addition to...
