Apr 13, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Culture War, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalist U, University of Dayton |
by William Trollinger If you want to understand why 81% of white evangelicals voted for Donald Trump, schools are a very good place to start. Here at the University of Dayton (UD) approximately 60 people – faculty and students from UD as well as from local evangelical...
Apr 6, 2018 | Christian Colleges, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Excalibur, intolerance, Taylor University |
by William Trollinger In looking at Excalibur – the self-advertised “publication of the Taylor University conservative underground” — here is what we see: The authors of Excalibur claim that – because of “our current cultural climate” as well as “leftist trends”...
Apr 2, 2018 | Christian Colleges, Creationism, Culture War, Evangelical Education, Excalibur, intolerance, Taylor University |
by William Trollinger The headline in Christianity Today says it all: “Taylor University Still Shaken by Unsanctioned Conservative Newspaper.” Founded in 1847, Taylor is now an independent Christian college of approximately 1900 undergraduate students located in...
Jan 29, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, White Evangelicals |
by Adam Laats with William Trollinger Adam Laats’ eagerly anticipated book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, comes out next week from Oxford University Press. We have posed a few questions for Adam about his book, and in this post and...
Jan 25, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Colleges, Evangelical Education, Fundamentalist U, Guaranteed Pure, Moody Bible Institute, Racism, Tim Gloege, White Evangelicals |
by Adam Laats with William Trollinger Adam Laats’ eagerly anticipated book, Fundamentalist U: Keeping the Faith in American Higher Education, comes out next week from Oxford University Press. We have posed a few questions for Adam about his book, and in this post and...
Sep 18, 2017 | Bodie Hodge, Christian Colleges, Creation Museum, Creationism, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Fundamentalism, History, Moody Bible Institute, Righting America, Tim Gloege |
by Tim Gloege and William Trollinger In the “Suggested Readings” section of Righting America (313-316) we note that “in the twenty-first century, the study of American fundamentalism has really come into its own, with a surfeit of outstanding works, many of which pay...
