Jan 20, 2026 | Anti-Vaxxers, Brandy X. Lee, Creation Museum, Donald Trump, Evangelical Education, Evolution, Freeman Dyson, Kenneth R. Miller, Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District,, MAGA Evangelicals, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Rodney Kennedy, Science, Scopes Trial, Wright Brothers |
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...
Dec 23, 2025 | Albert Mohler, Annihilationism, Ark Encounter, Baptist News Global, Creation Museum, Hell, Judgment, Ken Ham, Kirk Cameron, MAGA Evangelicals, Owen Strachan, Proof-Texting, Revelation, Rick Pidcock, Sin, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Tom Ascol, White Christian Nationalism |
By William Trollinger Image via https://creation-thewrittentruth.blogspot.com. The Baptist News Global headline says it all: “Heads spin as Kirk Cameron gives up eternal conscious torment.” As Rick Pidcock observes, Cameron has for many years “been one of the poster...
Nov 18, 2025 | Adam Laats, Age of the Earth, Andrew Carnegie, Civil War, Confederate Statues, Creation Museum, David Barton, David Blight, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Donald Trump, Emotion, Evangelical History, Frederick Douglass, Herbert McCabe, Higher Education, History, History and Politics, Jill Lepore, Jim Crow, John Rockefeller, Lauren Berlant, Lynn Hunt, MAGA, MAGA Evangelicals, Memory, Paula White, Pepe the Frog, PragerU, Pseudoarcheology, Reconstruction, Robert Jeffress, Robert Penn Warren, Second Ku Klux Klan, Segregation, Thurgood Marshall, 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 he...
Jul 29, 2025 | Answers in Genesis, Anti-Vaxxers, Climate Change, Conspiracy Theories, Creation Museum, Creationism, Culture War, Isis Journal, Jenna Scaramanga, K.L. Marshall, Michael Reiss, QAnon, Scientific Creationism, Scopes Trial, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger We are pleased to announce that our article, “From Creationism to QAnon: Answers in Genesis and the Culture Wars,” has been published in the June issue of Isis: A Journal of the History of Science Society. Below is an excerpt...
Apr 8, 2025 | Abeka Books, Accelerated Christian Education, Answers in Genesis, Biblical Science, Charlie Kirk, Christian Nationalism, Christina Littlefield, Climate Change, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Culture War, Ed Larson, Evolution, George McCready Price, Glenn Branch, Historical Science, Homeschooling, Intelligent Design, John Scopes, Margaret Mitchell, Old Earth Creationism, Proof-Texting, Righting America, Scopes Trial, Six-Day Creation, Society of Biblical Literature, Statement of Faith, Stephen Weldon, The Genesis Flood, Vaccination, William Jennings Bryan, Young Earth Creationism |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Teacher John Scopes (left), and crowds outside the Scopes Trial in Dayton, Tennessee. Image via The Vintage News. Here we are, at the centenary of the Scopes Trial. And last week was very much a Scopes week. On Tuesday...
Jan 9, 2025 | Academic Minute, Amish, Ark Encounter, Conservative Evangelicals, Creation Museum, David Weaver-Zercher, New Order Amish, Nostalgia, NPR, Old Order Amish, Pacifism, Selling the Amish, Tourism, Visual Rhetoric, White Christian Nationalism |
Susan Trollinger is Professor of English at the University of Dayton. Among other publications, she is the author of Selling the Amish: The Tourism of Nostalgia (Johns Hopkins, 2012). She is also co-author (with William Trollinger) of Righting America at the Creation...
