Nov 29, 2018 | American Historian, Christian Right, Christianity Today, Elesha Coffman, John Fea, Laura Jane Gifford, Lerone Martin, Politics, R. Marie Griffith, Rodney Kennedy, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger We have said it again and again, but the emergence of the Christian Right as the GOP’s most reliable constituency AND then – most dramatically – the election of Donald Trump as president has resulted in all sorts of very smart people looking...
Oct 23, 2018 | Certainty, Christian Right, Donald Trump, Evangelicals, Hillary Clinton, Identification, intolerance, Kenneth Burke, Politics, Rhetoric |
by Camille Kaminski Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication Studies at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She holds a Ph.D. from Indiana University in Rhetorical Studies with a minor in American Studies....
Jul 19, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Bodie Hodge, Christian Right, Culture War, Ken Ham |
William Trollinger Who is the audience for fundamentalist apologetics? One place to start in answering this question is Answers in Genesis (AiG). This creationist juggernaut – with its books, videos, podcasts, speakers, school and church curricula, museum, and theme...
Jun 18, 2018 | Asylum Seekers, Christian Right, Culture War, Dana Milbanks, Evangelicals, Immigration, intolerance, Jeff Sessions, Meghan Henning, Racism, Stephen Colbert, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger “Let every person be subject to the governing authorities; for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God. Therefore whoever resists authority resists what God has appointed, and those who...
Jun 1, 2018 | Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Culture War, Daniel T. Rodgers, Evangelicals, Feminism, Gender Roles, Heteronormativity, LGBT Issues, Nashville Statement, Secularization, The Age of Fracture |
by William Trollinger Why do evangelical leaders and pastors devote so much energy, so much attention, to sex? In particular, evangelical pastors and leaders spend an enormous amount of time delineating what constitutes God-ordained sexuality and God-ordained sexual...
Feb 1, 2018 | Adam Laats, Christian Right, Evangelical Education, Evangelicals, Gay Marriage, KKK |
by William Trollinger In our recent Q/A with Adam Laats about his newly-released book, Fundamentalist U, he pointed out that In order to survive, [evangelical] schools have had to maintain reputations as both guardians and teachers of a necessarily vague dream of...
