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High School Students Trying to Understand Evangelicalism

by Susan Trollinger and William Trollinger Returning to high school was great fun! Last Friday we had the good fortune of speaking in Ms. Barbara Acker’s three Comparative Religion classes at Oakwood High School (just south of Dayton). We talked about young Earth...

The Specter of Jesus

by William Trollinger The fact that white evangelicals have given us President Donald Trump has forced a significant minority of American evangelicals into profound self-examination. Some are simply abandoning the label. One of the most prominent is David Gushee,...

Talking Young Earth Creationism with Historians

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...