Jul 7, 2020 | Christian Ethics, Christian Right, Civil War, Colonization, Constantine, Crusades, Darwin, History, Jesus, Racism, Sermon on the Mount, Sin, Slavery |
by Susan Trollinger Modern Semi-Truck on a Twilight Highway. Image courtesy of skuid.com Traveling east on I-70 the other day, Bill and I passed a semi with a sticker on the back of its trailer. It was a simple graphic on which appeared a four-lane road (drawn in...
Jun 7, 2019 | Civil War, Confederate Statues, KKK, McKinley Birthplace Museum, Racism, Slavery, Uncategorized, White Nationalism, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger Last Sunday, I was at the William McKinley Memorial Museum in Niles, Ohio – McKinley’s birthplace – to speak on “Statues, Flags, and the Ongoing Battle Over the Civil War.” Given McKinley’s role as a Union soldier, it seemed quite the appropriate...
May 9, 2019 | Adolf Hitler, Barack Obama, Billy Graham, Billy Sunday, Bob Jones University, Camille Lewis, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Kenneth Burke, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Religious Rhetorics, Rhetoric, Uncategorized, White Evangelicals, White Nationalism, White Supremacy, William Barber, William Jennings Bryan, William Ward Ayer |
by Camille 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. Her...
Oct 26, 2018 | Birth of a Nation, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Emanuel AME Church, History, intolerance, KKK, Neo-Nazis, Politics, Racism, Reconstruction, Redemption, Robert E. Lee, Slavery, Statement on Confederate Monuments, White Supremacy |
by William Trollinger “Redemption.” In Christian theology, it is a powerful and hopeful term referring to the deliverance from sin and its consequences. But in the context of U.S. history, “Redemption” is a word that has much less positive connotations. Thursday night...
