Jan 2, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Politics, Secularization |
by William Trollinger We kick off the New Year by heading to Washington, D.C. for the winter meeting of the American Society of Church History. At 1.30pm on Thursday we are participating in a session that is entitled “Christianity in 20th Century American Politics,”...
Dec 20, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Christian Right, Evangelicals, Ken Ham, Racism |
by William Trollinger In his very charitable review of Righting America on the BioLogos website Ted Davis notes that he “partly dissent[s]” from our treatment of racism: They acknowledge that Ham and his Museum unambiguously oppose racism and blame evolution for...
Oct 24, 2017 | Christian Right, Donald Trump, Fundamentalism, intolerance, LGBT Issues, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Righting America, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox with William Trollinger In Righting America 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 close attention to economics and...
Oct 19, 2017 | Christian Right, Fundamentalism, Hell, intolerance, Rebecca Barrett-Fox, Righting America, Westboro Baptist Church |
by Rebecca Barrett-Fox with William Trollinger In Righting America 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 close attention to economics and...
Sep 25, 2017 | Anti-Semitism, Biblical Interpretation, Christian Right, Church, Donald Trump, Emily Hunter McGowin, Evangelicals, Israel, Racism |
by Emily McGowin Emily Hunter McGowin has a PhD in theology from the University of Dayton and MDiv from Truett Seminary. Her work is at the intersection of religion, theology, and ethnography. Her first book, Quivering Families: The Quiverfull Movement and Evangelical...
Sep 14, 2017 | Christian Right, Culture War, KKK, Racism |
by William Trollinger America, 2017. We have a vociferous and angry Christian Right, an ongoing and increasingly heated cultural argument over who is truly American and who is not, and a government campaign to close the borders and deport the unwanted. We have a...
