Dec 15, 2023 | A Fever in the Heartland, Anti-Immigration, Birth of a Nation, Black History, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Dayton, Harry Baujan, Johnson-Reed Act, KKK, Linda Gordon, Lynching, Second Ku Klux Klan, Society of Mary, Timothy Egan, University of Dayton, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Editor’s Note: This article originally appeared at The Conversation. KKK Demonstration in Dayton, OH on September 21, 1923. Photo courtesy of Dayton Metro Library. It was Dec. 19, 1923 – 100 years ago. The first day of Christmas break at...
Oct 3, 2023 | American History, Biblical Literalism, Charles Payne, Civil Rights Act, Civil Rights Movement, Emmett Till, George Wallace, Historical Fallacy, James Meredith, Jim Crow, John Lewis, June Johnson, Leon Hannaford, Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, Percy Julian, Racism, Redistricting, Robert Rowland, Rodney Kennedy, Ron DeSantis, Segregation, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Slavery, Supreme Court, Systemic Racism, Trey Lamar, Voting Rights Act, White Supremacy |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. He pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH) – which is an American Baptist Church – for 13 years, after which...
Jul 11, 2023 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Adolf Hitler, American Creationism, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Literalism, Charles Darwin, Christian Colleges, Civil Rights Movement, College of the Ozarks, Creation Museum, Darwin, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Darwin-to-Vietnam trope, Darwin's Plantation, Flood Geology, Fundamentalism, History and Politics, Holocaust, Jerry Bergman, Ken Ham, Martin Luther, Messiah College, Old Earth Creationism, Racism, Religion and History, Slavery, Tucker Carlson, Vietnam War, White Evangelical Racism, White Evangelicals, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Image of Ken Ham & A. Charles Ware’s 2007 book Darwin’s Plantation. Dear Jerry (if I may): Oh my. It appears that my discussion of your article on Darwin and the Vietnam War has struck a nerve. So it is that you have mustered your...
Aug 26, 2022 | Abeka Books, American History, Ancient World, Answers in Genesis, Apostles of Reason, Aristotle, Biblical Authority, Bob Jones University, Capitalism, Church History, Civil Rights Movement, Evangelical Education, Evangelical History, Fascism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Textbooks, Hijacking History, History and Politics, Kathleen Wellman, Lost Cause Myth, Martin Luther, Marxism, McCarthyism, Medieval History, Molly Worthen, Patricia Engler, Safe Schools, Secularism, Socialism, Thomas Aquinas, University of Dayton, White Supremacy, Women's Rights |
by William Trollinger Photo by Patricia Engler, via Answers in Genesis Sometimes this blog simply writes itself. A few weeks ago we ran a post on Kathleen Wellman’s Hijacking History: How the Christian Right Teaches History and Why It Matters (Oxford, 2021). In this...
Jun 15, 2022 | American History, Biblical Interpretation, Billy Graham, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblindness, George Wallace, History, J. Russell Hawkins, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Jim Crow, Race and Religion, Racial Justice, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Southern White Evangelicals, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals |
by William Trollinger J. Russell (“Rusty”) Hawkins is Professor of Humanities and History in the John Wesley Honors College at Indiana Wesleyan University. He is also author of The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy, which...
May 31, 2022 | Abortion, Answers in Genesis, Buffalo, Christian Right, Civil Rights Movement, Colorblind Individualism, Colorblindness, Gender Identity, George Floyd, Insurrection, J. Russell Hawkins, January 6, 2021, Joe Biden, Ken Ham, One Blood, One Race, Politics, Racism, Religion and Politics, Segregationist Chrisitianity, Sin, Slavery, The Age of Fracture, The Bible Told Them So, White Evangelicals, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Cover Image for The Bible Told Them So: How Souther Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy by J. Russell Hawkins (Oxford University Press, 2021) In his terrific 2021 book, The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to...
