Aug 19, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, Abolition, American History, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Founder's Rhetoric, Fugitive Slave Act, Inherent Rights, Insurrection, January 6, 2021, Jim Crow, John C. Calhoun, Martin Luther King, Jr., Reconstruction, Second Ku Klux Klan, Slavery, Systemic Racism, Voting Rights, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
by William Trollinger Below is an excerpt of an essay of mine that was published in the Summer, 2025 issue of New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, an issue which is devoted to white Christian nationalism and education. A link to the complete article can...
Feb 3, 2025 | 1619 Project, 1776 Commission, American Historical Association, American History, Black Reconstruction, Civil Rights Movement, Civil War, Communism, Constitution, Culture War, Donald Trump, Executive Orders, Fascism, History and Politics, Indoctrination, Jerry Davis, John C. Calhoun, Kevin Kruse, Reconstruction, Slavery |
by William Trollinger Last Wednesday the Trump Administration issued an executive order entitled “Ending Radical Indoctrination in K-12 Schooling,” which has as its goal to end “federal funding or support for illegal and discriminatory treatment and indoctrination in...
Dec 3, 2024 | Abortion, Anti-Immigration, Anti-Intellectualism, Christian Nationalism, Civil Rights Movement, Clarence Darrow, Conservative Evangelicals, Donald Trump, Evangelical History, Gay Marriage, George Lakoff, George W. Bush, H. L. Mencken, History, Ken Ham, Kevin Kruse, Moral Majority, Newt Gingrich, Racism, Randall Balmer, School Prayer, Scopes Trial, Temperance, White Christian Nationalism, White Evangelical Racism |
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 he...
Jul 30, 2024 | 16th Street Baptist Church, Birmingham, Br. Thomas Nguyen, Civil Rights Movement, Lynching, Racism, Systemic Racism |
by Br. Thomas Nguyen, G.H.M. Br. Thomas is a brother of The Glenmary Home Missionaries, a community that ministers to rural populations in the United States. In May Br. Thomas graduated with a M.A. in Pastoral Ministry from the University of Dayton. He currently...
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...
