Jan 5, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, BioLogos, Creation Museum, Creation Science, Creationism, Evangelicals, History, Ken Ham, Museums, Politics, Young Earth Creationism |
by William Trollinger Well, that was fun! At yesterday’s American Society of Church History session here in Washington on “Christianity in 20th Century American Politics” – which was ably and energetically chaired by Rebecca Koerselman (Northwestern College) – our...
Jan 2, 2018 | Answers in Genesis, Apologetics, Ark Encounter, Christian Right, Creation Museum, Politics, Secularization |
by William Trollinger We kick off the New Year by heading to Washington, D.C. for the winter meeting of the American Society of Church History. At 1.30pm on Thursday we are participating in a session that is entitled “Christianity in 20th Century American Politics,”...
Dec 9, 2017 | Bible, Creation Museum, Culture War, Fundamentalism, Jesus |
by William Trollinger We got a glimpse of Jesus in our recent visit to the Creation Museum. Or we think it was him. Hard to know for sure. The guy we saw seemed really angry. In our last post we noted that, in our research for Righting America at the Creation Museum,...
Dec 6, 2017 | Answers in Genesis, Creation Museum, Culture War, History, Inerrancy, Luther, Righting America |
by William Trollinger In conducting our research for Righting America at the Creation Museum we were surprised to discover that the museum is rather “loose” when it comes to factual accuracy, and not just regarding matters of science. For example, despite the museum’s...
Nov 24, 2017 | Creation Museum, Righting America |
In his November 17 Weekly Standard article, “Love to Tell the Story,” Grant Wishard compares Washington’s Museum of the Bible (which, when Wishard wrote, was just about to open) with two other evangelical “pilgrimage sites”: the Sight and Sound Theatres...
Nov 21, 2017 | AAR, Ark Encounter, Creation Museum, Museums |
by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger It was certainly a privilege to be included in last Saturday’s American Academy of Religion (AAR) roundtable discussion of “Museums and the Public Understanding of Religion,” organized by Hamilton College’s S. Brent Plate. In...
