Mar 20, 2020 | Christian Colleges, Christian Right, College Sports, COVID-19, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, Jerry Falwell Jr., Liberty University, Religion and Science, Rodney Kennedy, Science |
by William Trollinger Photo Credit: Smiley N. Pool, Staff Photographer, Dallas Morning News While the NCAA responded to the COVID-19 pandemic by shutting down all sporting events (including March Madness for both men’s and women’s teams), the National Collegiate...
Mar 13, 2020 | Asbury University, Brigham Young University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Gay Marriage, Gender Roles, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Same-Sex Attraction, White Evangelicals |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox Rebecca Barrett-Fox is Professor of Sociology at Arkansas State University. The author of God Hates: Westboro Baptist Church, American Nationalism, and the Religious Right (University Press of Kansas 2016), she researches and writes...
Mar 6, 2020 | Adam Laats, Asbury University, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Evangelical Youth, Evangelicals, LGBT Issues, Linda Blackford |
by William Trollinger Asbury University, Photo by City of Wilmore, Kentucky. As Adam Laats convincingly demonstrates in his wonderful Fundamentalist U, evangelical and fundamentalist colleges are all about presenting themselves – to donors and parents – as “safe”...
Oct 25, 2019 | Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Fundamentalism, History, Kelsey Lahr, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, Westmont College, White Jesus, White Supremacy |
by Kelsey Lahr Kelsey Lahr is a communication professor at Los Angeles Pacific University. Her scholarly interests include climate change communication and environmental rhetorics. She also works summers as a seasonal Ranger in Yosemite National Park. Her writing...
Apr 25, 2019 | Christian Colleges, Excalibur, Molly Worthen, Politics, Racial Justice, Racism, Statement on Social Justice and the Gospel, Taylor University, The New York Times, Tim Dillon, Westmont College, White Evangelicals, White Jesus, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger There’s no getting around it. White evangelicalism has a race problem. And some white evangelicals are getting the message. So it is that some Westmont College students are agitating for the removal of the “white Jesus” in the campus...
Apr 18, 2019 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Christian Right, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Excalibur, Mike Pence, Politics, Taylor University, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger Conservatives at Taylor University can breathe a sigh of relief. Mike Pence is on his way. The leftist assault has been thwarted. Just 14 months ago the alarm was sounded at the evangelical school of 1900 undergraduates in Upland, Indiana. A...
