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...
Oct 4, 2022 | Battle of Gettysburg, Benedict Arnold, Christian Nationalism, Church and State, Civil War, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, David Barton, David Sofian, First Amendment, First Baptist Church of Dallas, George Pickett, George Washington, John Fea, Religion and Politics, Repairer of the Breach, Revolutionary War, Robert E. Lee, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Rolling Stone, The Wallbuilders, Watchman Decree, White Evangelicals, Will Campbell, William “Dutch” Sheets |
by Rodney Kennedy Screenshot of “Daily Prayer with Dutch” by William “Dutch” Sheets. 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...
Aug 17, 2022 | Adolf Hitler, American Creationism, Answers in Genesis, Anticommunism, Blackjewel LLC, Capitalism, Carl R. Weinberg, Center for the Renewal of Science and Culture, Conservatism, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Darwin, Darwin-to-Hitler Trope, Discovery Institute, Donald Trump, Eugenics, Evolution, EvolutionNews, Fundamentalism, George McCready Price, God's Empire, Henry Ford, Henry Morris, History, History and Politics, Intelligent Design, J. Frank Norris, Karl Marx, Racism, Red Dynamite, Religion and History, Religion and Politics, Religion and Science, Richard Weikart, Trump Supporters, Wedge Document, William Bell Riley |
by Carl R. Weinberg Carl R. Weinberg is Teaching Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of History at the Indiana University Bloomington, where he is also the Director of the PACE Institute for Role-Immersive...
Feb 28, 2022 | Anthropocene, Apocalyptic Rhetoric, Apocalypticism, Authoritarian Populism, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, Craig White, Donald Trump, End Times, Evangelicals, G. Mitchell Reyes, Gender Roles, History and Politics, Kundai Chirindo, Political Rhetoric, Politics, Populism, Precarity, Rodney Kennedy, Russia, Samson, Strong Man, Tim Alberta, Tucker Carlson, Ukraine, Vladimir Putin |
by Rodney Kennedy Rodney Kennedy has his M.Div. from New Orleans Theological Seminary and his Ph.D. in Rhetoric from Louisiana State University. The pastor of 7 Southern Baptist churches over the course of 20 years, he pastored the First Baptist Church of Dayton (OH)...
Jan 17, 2022 | Capitol Riot, Civil War, Conservatism, Donald Trump, History and Politics, Insurrection, Joe Biden, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Martin Luther King, Jr., Racism, Raymond Screws, Republicans |
By Raymond Screws Raymond D. Screws earned his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska in 2003. He also has an MA from Pittsburg State University and a B.A. from School (now College) of the Ozarks, where his advisor was William Trollinger. Throughout his...
Sep 20, 2021 | #BlackLivesMatter, #ChurchToo, #MeToo Movement, Active-Passivism, American Democracy, American Exceptionalism, American History, Beth Moore, Christian Nationalism, Citizenship, Clifford Geertz, Complementarian Theology, Conservatism, Conservative Evangelicals, Culture War, Digital Church, Digital Rhetorical Ethnography, Donald Trump, Elections, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Founder's Rhetoric, Gender Roles, History and Politics, John Fea, Megachurches, Narrative Patterns, Religious Rhetorics, Republicans, Samuel Perry, Southern Baptist Convention, Stephanie A. Martin, Thomas Frank, Trump Supporters, Uncategorized |
by Patrick Thomas Sam (Stephanie A. Martin) is a scholar of public address and political communication, with a particular interest in the public discourses of conservative social movements, especially evangelical voters. She has written or edited three books, most...