Feb 23, 2023 | Anti-Asian Violence, Asian Americans, Br. Thomas Nguyen, Christian Nationalism, Christian Right, COVID-19, George Floyd, Glenmary Home Missionaries, Racism, Religion and Politics, Silence, Systemic Racism, Visibility |
by Br. Thomas Nguyen, G.H.M. An Asian woman holds a sign during an anti-violence rally in New York City. Photo by Jim Wilson of The New York Times. Br. Thomas is a brother of The Glenmary Home Missionaries, a community that ministers to rural populations in the United...
Jan 16, 2023 | Anti-Environmentalism, Arlie Russel Hochschild, Capitalism, Christian Environmental Stewardship, Christian Right, Climate Change, Conservationism, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Earth Day, Francis Schaeffer, Ken Ham, National Association of Evangelicals, Neall Pogue, Religion and Politics, Religion and the Environment, Robert Dugan, Strangers in Their Own Land, The Lost Environmentalists, The Nature of the Religious Right |
by William Trollinger Image of Neall W. Pogue’s book cover for The Nature of the Religious Right: The Struggle Between Conservative Evangelicals and the Environmental Movement (Cornell University Press, 2022) Neall Pogue is an assistant professor of instruction...
Jan 4, 2023 | Adolf Hitler, American Israel Public Affairs Committee, American Jews, Anchor Baptist Church, Anti-Semitism, Antichrist, Christian Right, Dispensational Premillennialism, Eric Alterman, God's Empire, Israel, Jerry Falwell, Sr., John Hagee, John Nelson Darby, Judaism, Mike Elliott, Pensacola Bible Institute, Rapture Ideology, Revelation, The Nation, Tim LaHaye, Tribulation, White Evangelicals, William Bell Riley |
by William Trollinger Bar Graph showing the rise in anti-semitic incidents in the United States: 2012 – 2021. Via the Anti-Defamation League. A few years ago I was interviewed by a reporter for a national Jewish publication who wanted my take on the fact...
Dec 23, 2022 | Biblical Literalism, Certainty, Christian Right, Dispensational Premillennialism, Diversity, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism and Gender, Gender Identity, Gender Roles, Harmony Creek Church, Inerrancy, LGBTQ+ Christians, LGBTQ+ Identity |
by William Trollinger Anti-LGBTQ+ Protestors. Image courtesy of Getty Images. I was not prepared for the level of pain, hurt, anguish. I should not have been surprised, but I was. It was the winter of 2004. I had been asked to lead the “Winter Weekend Intensive” at...
Nov 21, 2022 | AIG Security, Answers in Genesis, Canine Units, Christian Right, Christian Right Victimization, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Evolution, Fundamentalism, Jules Carr-Chellman, Ken Ham, Observational Science, Persecution, Police, Secularism, Tax Breaks, Young Earth Creationism |
Jules Carr-Chellman Jules Carr-Chellman is an undergraduate student of Philosophy at the University of Dayton. Raised in Northern Idaho, he is now an honors student with research interests in psychoanalytic critical theory, social philosophy, and existentialism. As a...
Oct 31, 2022 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Abortion, Ark Encounter, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Christian Right, Climate Change, Climate Skeptics, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, Critical Race Theory, Culture War, Facebook, Fundamentalism, Hell, Intersectionality, Judgment, Ken Ham, LGBTQ+ Rights, Noah's Flood, Parler, Proof-Texting, Righting America, Social Justice, Social Media, Statement of Faith, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Screenshot from Ken Ham’s Facebook page, with a quote from the Gospel of Matthew and linking to a Fox News story. Image via Facebook. One of the distinctive ways in which fundamentalists make use of the Bible is proof-texting, i.e., pulling...
