Jan 20, 2022 | Amish, Anthropology, Courtship Practices, COVID-19, Gender Roles, Karen M. Johnson-Weiner, Linguistics, Lives of Amish Women, New New Order Amish, Old Order Mennonite, Old Order Schools, Participant Observation, Sex Education, Swartzentruber Settlement, Wisconsin v. Yoder |
by Susan L. Trollinger Karen M. Johnson-Weiner is a Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology Emerita at SUNY Potsdam in Potsdam, NY, where she taught courses in linguistic anthropology. She received a B.A. in 1975 from Hope College (Holland, MI) and an M.A....
Jan 13, 2022 | ACLU, Anti-Intellectualism, Clarence Darrow, COVID-19, Culture War, Darwin, Derrick Harkins, Donald Trump, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Evangelical History, Evangelical Rhetoric, Evangelicals, Evolution, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Historical Science, History, J. Frank Norris, James Forbes, Jeremiah Wright, Jerry Falwell, Sr., Lara Logan, Observational Science, Populism, Rand Paul, Robert Jeffress, Rodney Kennedy, Science, Scopes Trial, The Fundamentals, Tom Cotton, Tucker Carlson, William Sloane Coffin, Jr., Word&Way |
by Rodney Kennedy Editor’s Note: this piece appeared earlier this week at Word&Way. We are happy to share it here for our readers! Book Cover, Righting America at the Creation Museum by Susan L. Trollinger and William Vance Trollinger, Jr. (2016). Historians...
Dec 7, 2021 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Biblical Interpretation, Biblical Literalism, Billy Sunday, Camille Lewis, Carl Sandburg, COVID-19, Critical Race Theory, Francis Bacon, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalist Bible, Ken Ham, Kenneth Burke, Racism, Tower of Babel |
by Camille Kaminski Lewis Camille Kaminski Lewis is an Assistant Professor 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 18, 2021 | Anti-Vaxxers, Brian Beutler, Casey Ryan Kelly, Cornel West, COVID-19, Ethics and the Press, Misinformation, Pentecostal Charismatics, Reuters, Shane Vaughn, Southern Baptist Convention, Tom Hals, Vaccine Mandates, Waveland, Mississippi, White Men |
by Rodney Kennedy Shane Vaughn, pastor at First Harvest Ministries in Waveland, MS. Photo via Newsweek.com 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...
Oct 11, 2021 | Amish, Amish Country Theater, Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Ark Encounter, COVID-19, Creation Museum, Evangelicals, Evolution, Janet Kellogg Ray, Masking, Religion and Science, Righting America, Science, Selling the Amish, Tourism, Vaccination, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Promotional photo for the Amish Country Theater (2021) Every other year my wife Sue teaches a course here at the University of Dayton (UD) entitled “The Arguments and Visual Rhetoric of Two Religious Traditions.” Not surprisingly, the two...
Jul 9, 2021 | Ad Hominem Attacks, Answers in Genesis, Ark Encounter, Ark Encounter Attendance, COVID-19, David McMillan, Ken Ham, Noah's Flood, Righting America, Tax Breaks, TIF Bonds, We Believe in Dinosaurs, Williamstown |
by William Trollinger Exterior of Ark Encounter. Photo copyright: Susan Trollinger (2018) In an article celebrating the five-year anniversary of Ark Encounter’s opening, Ken Ham continued to issue misleading (now there’s an understatement!) comments regarding...
